Theatre review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Fantastic cast, fantastic show. You can’t help but come out of this show uplifted.
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G20 meeting in London – Places to Avoid
The G20 summit is about to start in London on 2 April 2009 where 20 of the world’s leaders are congregatin. This is expected to atract tens of thousands of climate change activists, anti-war campaigners, trade unionists, charity workers and stud As expected, there will be a lot of protests marches about and here are…
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Review: Complicite/ Simon McBurney Shun Kin
Image by Getty Images via Daylife This was one of the most stunning and extraordinary performances that I have seen on stage in London in a while. The story is based on the wrtings of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, one of the most important of Japanese writers of the 20th century. The show is coproduced by Complicite,…
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Review: On the Waterfront, Theatre Royal Haymarket
I went to see this last week when it first opened. In short, it was really enjoyable.On the Waterfront is an adaptation of the famous legendary movie, made famous by Marlon Brando’s amazing performance. This stage version is directed and acted by Steven Berkoff. The production was completely different from any other shows I have…
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Blizzard shuts London down
Image by MyLondonGuide via Flickr It started snowing quite heavily on Sunday night in London, very unusual for February. Monday morning dawns and London is blanketed with about a foot of snow. As we don’t normally get much snow in London, the infrastructure is not set up to deal with snow so the transport system…
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Review of Sunset Boulevard at the Comedy Theatre by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
The story of silent movie star Norma Desmond, played by Kathryn Evans, and her infatuation with a young writer called Joe Gillis, played by Ben Goddard.