There are some shows that come along out of nowhere and capture my heart and/or imagination and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is one of these shows. I haven’t read the book, nor seen the film nor even saw much about it during its run at Chichester Festival Theatre so I went into this show knowing nothing about it
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My Neighbour Totoro has been on my list for a long time, and I finally found myself with a spare evening and took the plunge. The show originally opened at the Barbican Centre in October 2022, running until January 2023, breaking records for the Barbican’s one-day ticket sales even before it opened. Due to popular demand, it returned to the
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Wow! What a show! We arrived at The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical with zero expectations of what we would see. We hadn’t heard a soundtrack of the show, seen a movie or even read a Percy Jackson book. Yet my eight year old son and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing! In a nutshell, Percy discovers his absent
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Hot Mess isn’t your typical boy meets girl love story, boy does indeed meet girl but this time girl is Earth and boy is Humanity, making what could be one of the most iconic couplings in history. We meet Earth 66 million years out of her breakup with apex predator t-Rex and she is looking to get back into dating
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Part dance, part comedy, 100% emotion, EXXY is a new play exploring the disabled experience through artistic representation, social commentary and the rallying cry of just yearning to exist as you are. Presented in the welcoming space of the Battersea Arts Centre, this 75 minute play uses movement, self expression and visual media to express in unflinching honesty the reality
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Inter Alia is a new play by Suzie Miller, the writer that brought us Prima Facie. This new play keeps the legal system at its heart again but this time the focus is on Jessica Parks, a female judge in the Crown court who is juggling her busy professional life along with being a wife and a mother to her
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On the 4th of August I took my little girl to see Freckle Productions’ The Baddies which is based on the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler book of the same name. I had previously seen Freckle’s production of Stick Man so was looking forward to the show and it did not disappoint. Freckle has a fantastic way of staying true
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Since my first viewing of Operation Mincemeat in 2022 at Riverside Studios I have adored this show but having last seen it nearly 2 years ago when it opened in the West End and with a cast change it was time for a revisit. Keen to see if the show remains as strong now that the original cast (and writers)
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After converting to the Jamie Lloyd hype train after Sunset Boulevard I was incredibly excited to see his most recent directorial outing, his reinvention of another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita. Evita tells of Eva Peron’s rise to fame and power looking at how she did it, her ambitions, her charity work and her impact on Argentina, all narrated by
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I have no shame in admitting it…I am a Starlight Express stan. Having given 5 stars to the production last year had to check out the new cast to see if they could keep my infatuation with the show going! For those unfamiliar with the show now is time to put aside any notion that it is a serious piece
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