The Greater Game is a new play by Michael Head, adapted from the book ‘They Took The Lead’ by Stephen Jenkins. It is currently playing at the Southwark Playhouse. The play tells of the true story of the players from Clapton Orient (now Leyton Orient) who signed up to fight in the war. The show follows the players from 2 of them
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Pride and Prejudice Following its success at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Pride and Prejudice began its National Tour at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley. I was lucky enough to attend on Thursday 22nd September for the first press night of the tour. This adaption of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is by Simon Reade. I’m sure most of you
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I know that I am late to the party on Funny Girl but let me just explain how late……. I have never seen the Funny Girl movie, the only song I could sing you from Funny Girl was ‘Don’t Rain on My Parade,’ although I could possibly hum a few bars of ‘People’ at a push. On top of all
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As I was unable to attend How To Win Against History myself I am delighted to welcome guest reviewer Katie Rose who runs her own blog over at Rosereview. The Review: ‘How to Win Against History’ written, composed, and performed by Seiriol Paget, is based on the charred true story of the 5th Marquis of Anglesey Henry Cyril Page. He was
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Stalking The Bogeyman at Southwark Playhouse held its press night on the 15th July. I was lucky enough to be invited along via London Theatre Bloggers to review it. Stalking The Bogeyman Stalking The Bogeyman is the true story of David who gets raped by the ‘Bogeyman,’ aged 7. The Bogeyman is his parent’s friends 17 year old son who
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I must start this review with a disclaimer…. I am a HUGE Rocky Horror Show Fan and have probably lost count of the number of times I have seen this show but I have not seen this tour. I was therefore thrilled to be invited along to the Orchard Theatre to review the current tour of The Rocky Horror Show
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Closer Than Ever On the 26th April 2016 I attended The Pheasantry to see Closer Than Ever. As a huge musical theatre fan I was thrilled to be given an opportunity to see a piece I was not familiar with. Closer Than Ever is a song cycle by Maltby & Shire which focuses on love, relationships and the passing of
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert, has for some reason managed to evade me…until last night at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford. Priscilla is another musical that stems from a movie but due to it’s content the transition from screen to stage was no surprise. The show follows 2 drag queens and a transgender woman who are travelling from Sydney to
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American Idiot is one of those shows that I have wanted to see for an age but for one reason or another I didn’t make it….so I was hugely grateful to the Churchill Theatre for the invitation to their Gala night on Thursday 31st March. American Idiot is a musical which contains songs from the Greenday album of the same
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This week sees the final week of the Open Air Theatre tour for Lord of the Flies, having toured since September 2015 and the Churchill Theatre in Bromley plays host to this. During a (unnamed) war a plane, carrying a group of school boys crashes onto an island, killing all of the adults aboard. However 9 boys survive and the
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