3*** 20 August 2018 A confession. I have never seen the film ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’. Nor did I try and see it before I came to this show. A show should be able to stand alone, without the need for too much research into resource material. A large number of (the largely female) […]
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4**** 17 July 2018 A black box stage. Some bottles of alcohol. A drum kit. We hear the strains of Vera Lynn singing ‘There’ll Always be an England’. A tall young man with a mop of curly hair enters wearing a white suit, a ruffle fronted shirt and a pair of wings. With a glint
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4**** 14 August 2018 Evita was very much a Tim Rice pet project. Andrew Lloyd Webber had not been interested in writing a show about the Argentinian First Lady and had got stuck into his show ‘Jeeves’, a collaboration with Alan Ayckbourn. When ‘Jeeves’ bombed with critics and public alike, Lloyd Webber licked his wounds
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9 August 2018 4**** The Genius that was Alfred Hitchcock gathered around him writers of great renown and repute, John Steinbeck, Sidney Gilliatt, John Michael Hayes and Ernest Lehman, thus this story, set in 1961, of him setting four, pretty incompetent, writers the task of crafting something to follow up Psycho is obviously a fiction…
9 August 2018 4**** The Genius that was Alfred Hitchcock gathered around him writers of great renown and repute, John Steinbeck, Sidney Gilliatt, John Michael Hayes and Ernest Lehman, thus this story, set in 1961, of him setting four, pretty incompetent, writers the task of crafting something to follow up Psycho is obviously a fiction…
