Reel Life by Folio Theatre My dealings with Folio Theatre Company began last year when I attended the launch night for Wimbledon’s studio theatre’s festival Illuminate. Whilst at the launch night I saw a promotion video for a play called Unearthed that spiked my interest. I therefore went along to watch Unearthed and was very impressed, so much so that
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The Perfect Murder: The Perfect Murder is a play based on Peter James novella which tells of a couple, Victor and Joan both dreaming of a new life without the other, but neither realising the others fantasy and the lengths they will go to in order to get it. I don’t want to go into too much detail regarding the
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Dick Whittington at The Orchard Theatre, Dartford. I was lucky enough to attend Dick Whittington on the 15th December, which is the Orchard Theatres pantomime offering this year. The Orchard has really ticked all of the panto boxes this year, it revels in the traditional pantomime gags and meets expectations of the seasoned panto goer whilst managing to present to the
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The White Feather – A New British Musical. As you can probably tell from the blog name I adore musical theatre and I am also a big fan of supporting new work – therefore when I was invited to review The White Feather at the Union Theatre I jumped at the chance. The White Feather tells the story of Georgina
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Kinky Boots – A musical about shoes……. as a shoe adoring musical theatre fan I have been waiting for Kinky Boots to hit the West End for what feels like forever. In reality it was probably since 2013 when Kinky Boots won the Tony award for best musical!! Luckily I was not disappointed. For those of you not familiar with
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Parade I attended Parade at London Theatre Workshop on Wednesday 2nd September. I should probably begin with a disclaimer – This is a musical I am extremely familiar with and love. This is the 5th production I have seen of this show. Previous productions I have seen of this show range from the original London production at the Domnar to
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Naughty Noel…. I attended the delightfully spiffing production of A Naughty Night With Noel Coward on Wednesday 12th August at The Old Red Lion Theatre and was treated to two short one act plays about marriage of the upper class in the 1920’s/1930’s. The first play is ‘We Were Dancing’ which was first seen in 1935. This focuses on Karl
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Miss-Leading Ladies at St James Studio Theatre I was lucky enough to be invited to Miss-Leading Ladies on Friday 7th August. Miss-Leading Ladies stars brother and sister, Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree as they celebrate some of the greatest stars of stage and screen. Ria and Ceri had me laughing from the off. Their welcome patter discussing Gypsy and the
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Baila Brazil at the Southbank Centre I attended Baila Brazil at the Southbank Centre on Thursday 6th August 2015 with a lovely bunch of fellow ‘LDNTheatreBloggers.’ This is a dance production by the company named Cia de Danca Bale de Rua (street ballet) who dance a fusion of samba, capoeira, funk and breakdancing along with live percussion and singing. The
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Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown I finally got round to seeing Songs For A New World at St James Theatre on Wednesday 5th August after hearing many good things about it. I should probably declare early on that I am a big fan of Jason Robert Brown and I have been a fan of this show
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