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 […]
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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 […]
Shouting at the system with bite and humour
Review: Beach Body Ready (rating 4/5) This production from The Roaring Girls does not pull its punches. Rachael and Sarah are fat (their words, not mine). Josey is not. Together they open up to their audience and expose us to the expectations imposed on us all – and women in particular – by a media […]
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 […]
Audiences hooked by superb insight into the making of Jaws
Review: The Shark is Broken (rating 5/5) Set on the small boat where three actors spent several weeks waiting for a mechanical shark to function as it should do, this is a wonderful behind-the-scenes insight into the making of 1970s movie Jaws and the relationship between its three main actors. However, you neither have to […]