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Theatre Review: Wolfboy – Trafalgar Studios 2, London

PKM — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:52:55 +0000

I was in the audience at the very first performance of Wolfboy The Musical when it previewed at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, before being unleashed to audiences at the Edinburgh Festival last year. Incidentally, I found myself in the audience again whilst in the city scouring various productions on the fringe. Perhaps there was a for Read more ...

Theatre Review: Ballets Russes – A Stage Kindly

PKM — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:54:24 +0000

A Stage Kindly’s most recent production Ballets Russes tells the story of the famous russian ballet company and the trials and tribulations they faced during the years preceding World War One.

The Rosemary Branch Theatre is a quaint venue tucked behind the hustle and bustle of Essex Road and although scenes of Ballets Russe Read more ...

Theatre Review: Translations – Tobacco Factory, Bristol

PKM — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:40:30 +0000

According to the author his 1980 play Translations is simply about language. And on one level it is. But there’s no getting away from its more potent theme of dispossession – a theme that has made the play a favourite amongst audiences of smaller nations who for centureis have been bullied by their neighbours.

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Theatre Review: Twelfth Night – Filter Theatre

PKM — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:31:29 +0000

If music be the food of love, then… well party on. Osino’s opening line uttered by Jonathan Broadbent, gave us excess of it, creating an alcohol-fuelled hedonistic student rave of a production. Filter Theatre tore up the rules and recreated Shakespeare in an anarchic energised form where the audience are part of the misrule.

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Film Review: StreetDance 3D – Cinemas Nationwide

PKM — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:26:14 +0000

The plot came as no surprise – take one dance cru, one ballet school, force them to work together in order to win, break the rules along the way and end with a final romance. Voila. But this is nothing we haven’t seen before, again and again, from our American counterparts.

However, what is different this time is that this was a B Read more ...

Theatre Review: Love The Sinner – National Theatre

PKM — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:17:22 +0000

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in order to prevent schism, dancing to the tune of bigoted African bishops and fanatical evangelists on the subject of homosexuality and the church, has proved a grotesque spectacle and made a monkey out of the Primate of All England.

Under the headline “Stand up, Archbishop, and tell the gay bashers where Read more ...

Film Review: The Back-Up Plan – Cinemas Nationwide

PKM — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:35:27 +0000

If you’d ask me to go along and see a Jennifer Lopez film with you, I undoubtedly would have, politely as possible, said ‘No, thank you’. But if that had been the case, I would have sorely missed out because The Back-Up Plan is a very true, comical and highly enjoyable viewing experience that I would really recommend.

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Theatre Review: Hair – Gielgud Theatre

PKM — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:19:31 +0000

I guess no matter how experienced we are in this business we never stop being drama students, in a rehearsal room or as part of an audience we’re always studying drama. This revival of Hair provides a lesson to us all in exactly how to successfully present the American musical in general and this musical in particular.

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Theatre Preview: Hair – Gielgud Theatre – West End

PKM — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:43:39 +0000

New York’s acclaimed Public Theater, in association with Cameron Mackintosh, will present the 2009 Tony award winning musical, Hair, at the Gielgud. The whole Broadway cast are signed up, which marks the first time an entire Broadway cast has opened a musical in the West End.

In 1967, Hair was the show that officially Read more ...

Theatre Review: The Tempest – Tabacco Factory, Bristol

PKM — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:59:12 +0000

This production has a split personality. Close your eyes and listen to the rich soundscape of Dan Jones and Carlo Ippolito; open them and see the barest of sets.

A rope and swinging lantern for the shipwreck and not even a branch or a twig to denote the island.

Close your eyes again and listen to a spitting angry Caliban (Christoph Read more ...