Review: Breakfast Plays: The Future Is – Kit Kat (rating 5/5) Kit Kat is a serious play with a strong message about global warming performed by three women, Rebecca Elise – who plays the mother, Ashleigh More who plays her very young teenage daughter, and Titana Muthui who plays her friend. It is set in […]
Show makes new Friends in a fast-paced retelling of a classic comedy
Friendsical: A Parody Musical About Friends (rating 5/5) US sitcom Friends, the story of six flatmates living in Manhattan, has such an enduring popularity that it has never been off television screens in the 25 years since the series began. So any spin-off is bound to draw an audience. This parody musical played to a […]
Delightful hour of Coward and Gert’s style and singing prowess
Review: Blighty, Broadway And Beyond! (rating 5/5) This is a story about the private lives of Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence but not as you might expect. It is set in an English garden which depicts purgatory, and narrated by the two characters while they are awaiting God (audience) to decide whether to send them […]
Story of Bond through songs that make movie magic
Review: Voices of Bond (rating 5/5) Only a few movie franchises are as well known for the theme music as for the plots and characters. Being chosen as composer and singer of the next Bond outing is a passage into film legend. Behind each song is a story, and that is the basis of this […]
Friends and the Festival: lunch, tea and three shows in a day
Every year I join up with a group of friends from Glasgow for a day at the Festival, a good way to take full advantage of the 2 for 1 ticket offer. After a sandwich and coffee lunch in Quartermile, listening to a variety of street performers, we headed into the university complex for an […]