All Shook Up All Shook Up is a jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music. Based on Shakespeare’s 12th Night the show opens with our lead character, Chad being released from prison and heading towards a nearby small town where things such as ‘public necking’ is banned. Chad’s arrival sees the beginning of several cases of unwanted love, including Natalie who
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Blackout: What does the blurb say about Blackout: Blackouts were the worst. Blackouts made me forget… Thank God for blackouts.’ Meet the woman who finds herself urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. The man who nearly burns down a stranger’s kitchen. The mother who almost beats her son to death in a drunken rage. Blackout is the
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The Monster in the Hall The Monster in the Hall by David Greig follows a day in the life of Duck Macatarsney as she cares for her dope-smoking biker father who suffers from multiple sclerosis. Duck is anxiously awaiting a visit from social services to check up on them and is terrified she will be taken into care. Worst of
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Liz What the blurb says about Liz: In a Tudor world, Liz – young, sassy, supposed virgin and the Queen of England – cannot stand the drawbacks of sitting on the throne as a woman; her overbearing councillors ignore her forward-thinking policies and constantly attempt to marry her off to boring and unappealing suitors. However, when she finally takes decisions into
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My Left/Right Foot – The Musical. As the blurb says, My Left/Right Foot tells of the local am-dram society who is under pressure to comply with the equalities agenda. They come up with a cunning plan to create a gripping show starring ‘the disabled’. What could be better than the Oscar-winning ‘My Left Foot’? The only snag is they’re having
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The House of Edgar at Wimbledon Studios The House of Edgar is a musical by Thomas F. Arnold which combines the work of Edgar Allan Poe with the true story of Rufus Griswold. Griswold was Poe’s rival who was handed over the keys to his estate. When Griswold begins to rifle through the books, Poe’s works begin to come to
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Beirut at Park Theatre Beirut by Alan Bowne is set during an unknown time in the future in America where a virus has spread. Residents are tested and those infected are quarantined in an area of New York whilst those that tested negative live in a different part, the two never allowed to mix for fear of contamination. The virus
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Into The Woods at Cockpit Theatre I’ll be upfront about this from the start. I adore Into the Woods, it is my favourite work of Sondheim’s and having been in a production of it I know it fairly well. I was therefore thrilled to hear that it was coming back to London and even more pleased when I was asked
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Lock and Key – An Original Musical by Barlow & Smith at the Vault Festival. When I heard about Lock and Key, on at The Vault Festival and the team they had amassed to put the show on, I knew I had to see it. Starring Evelyn Hoskins and Tiffany Graves and directed by Adam Lenson these are 3 people
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Trust Trust is the brainchild of German playwright Faik Richter and translated by Maja Zade. It focuses of capitalism through the eyes of a relationship, or at least this is what the blurb tells me. I found ‘Trust’ utterly confusing and frequently unclear as to the point it was trying to hammer home. Whilst I understood the overarching theme that our
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