Hairspray at the London Oratory School by Cygnet Players With this review I shall start with a confession….I love Hairspray. I think it is a brilliant musical that has everything – great music, upbeat songs with a brilliant moral. I love it so much that directed the musical for Bromley Players. After my review of Cygnet Players’ production of the
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Pornography For those of you that don’t know SEDOS they are one of the countries best amateur dramatic groups. After seeing several of their productions and reviewing their shows for other publications I was thrilled when they asked me to come along and review Pornography by Simon Stephens, for this blog. In coming to watch the show all I knew
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I attended Cygnet Players of the Full Monty on their opening night, Wednesday 31st September at Putney Arts Centre. For those of you that don’t know the musical version of the Full Monty the storyline is very similar to the film but the action is shifted to America. Buffalos steel factory closes down and making Buffalos men unemployed as a
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Upon making and publicising my new Facebook page for this blog I stated that amongst other things I would be reviewing amateur shows. This was faced with a comment advising me not to do so, which of course got me thinking and resulted in this post. When I put this question out on twitter and to friends I received some
Read moreI have now been involved in amateur theatre for 50% of my life (15 years) and have sat on both my university theatre society committee and my local amateur dramatics society committee. I therefore know how hard it is to pick a show that is right for your group and how many considerations there are- this is why I have
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Parade – by Forest Musical Theatre Company at the Kenneth Moore Theatre from 26th -28th March. So once again I turn my attention to the amateur theatre circuit and I headed on down to Illford to see this production. I have to confess that with this production I went with 2 caps on, one as a massive fan of the
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