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Theatre: ‘The Upstairs Room’ – We are who we are not in spite but because of others.
It all began in Oxford, last year, with director James Savin planning to direct Sartre’s play Huis Clos. Playwright David K. O’Hara read it and something did not sit well with him. In Huis Clos, we are in hell – represented … Continue reading
Review: Scandal, Lyres and Audiotape
Take a lyre. Take a harp. Both string instruments, right? Well, not just string instruments. The lyre and the harp have been heroines of the music stage since the dawn of times. Since Orpheus first charmed his way in and … Continue reading
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Tagged clatre goodall, early music, edinburgh fringe, katherine gregor, music, one woman show, rafe beckley, scribe doll
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Theatre Review: While the Sun Shines
It is a crying shame that this production is on for only a week, or I would go and see it again. Terence Rattigan’s 1943 comedy is a farce involving the usual premise of mistaken identity and romantic complications, but … Continue reading
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Tagged giant olive, katherine gregor, lion and unicorn theatre, scribe doll, terence rattigan, while the sun shines
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Theatre Review: ‘Lucky Stiff’
The show that launched the careers of song-writing musical team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (who went on to write hits such as Ragtime), Lucky Stiff is a manic, madcap, slapstick number with zero plot realism but full marks for … Continue reading
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Tagged katherine gregor, landor, lucky stiff, musicals, scribedoll
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Theatre Review: “Man in the Middle”
Someone should coin the phrase “bandwagon play”. Not that there is anything wrong with drawing a story from an item of current affairs fracas, and produce a piece of drama that makes history alongside History – as long as it … Continue reading
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