The wait will be over when the beginners please. A prompt to re-start theatre after Covid-19 lockdown.
The Godot Replacement Service
Category: Theatre
YOUR FACE MASK NEEDS YOU
And it won’t take “no” for answer No matter how good your facemask is it will not protect you against the slyest infection of all: the personality of the mask itself. Wearing any mask changes your mind. There is no doubt. If you do doubt it, it matters not; your mask will still have its … Continue reading YOUR FACE MASK NEEDS YOU
Mea Culpa Cleopatra
Private investigations and public humiliation It felt bizarre to be sponsored by a firm of private detectives. Somehow it also seemed apt that a performance that peered into the private lives of three of the most publicly known ancient figures, Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony and Queen Cleopatra, should be partly funded by hireable spies. … Continue reading Mea Culpa Cleopatra
The Transgender Mysteries
Making a crisis out of a drama On 16th January 1997 a free newspaper bearing the front-page headline BLASPHEMY! plopped through every letter box in the municipality of Preston in Lancashire, England, and in many of its surrounding districts. It caused a local media storm, made headlines in national newspapers and sent ripples right around the world. This is an account of how the furore was created, contested and concluded.
Keeping Mum
Gypsy at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, December 2019. The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is a theatrical womb that can always be trusted to serve up high-quality festivities, and this Yuletide’s production of Gypsy with its cornucopia of song, gags, costumes, amusing knick-knacks and family rows suits the season of enforced conviviality very well. … Continue reading Keeping Mum
Top Rank Groovy
How an iconic 1960s Preston night club became a musical.
ABBA, David Bowie, the Red Army of Russia, Wonder Woman, The Starship Enterprise and the people of Preston
From glitterballs to mothballs – an offstage rummage through four and a half decades of Preston Guild Hall.
Around the World in 80s Days
A review (Blackpool Grand Theatre, Friday 9th August 2019) For seven consecutive years in the 1960s my childhood holidays were spent in Lytham St. Annes just sixteen miles from home. It may seem a raw deal when schoolmates would traverse the country, or set out on the first of the popular package holidays to that … Continue reading Around the World in 80s Days
Kije and me
Dashing through the show; in a three-horse open sleigh.
From a Soviet soundtrack to a festive farce.
Where there was a Will
Did the teenage William Shakespeare spend time with England's most wanted religious fundamentalist at Hoghton Tower in Lancashire?
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