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It is difficult for me to articulate just how good Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is … because my jaw dropped while watching the show and it hasn’t fully recovered!  WOW! Even if the car had been a huge disappointment, the show would have proved itself as an excellent piece of musical theatre.  Every element screamed quality.   

THU 22nd 

The Great Extension, Theatre Royal Stratford East

Published by: James Martin Charlton on Thursday 22nd October 2009 12:10pm

Anyone who nostalgically misses the heyday of 1970s ITV race comedy – epitomised by Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language – should hurry themselves down to the Theatre Royal Stratford East for the new play by Cosh Omar, whose Battle of Green Lanes proved such a critical success at the same venue in 2004. The first act of the play, at least, will satisfy a demand for guffaws at broad comic situations, vulgarity, farcical argy-bargy and a dramatis personae in which racial, sexual and cultural stereotypes abound.

WED 21st

Timing by Alistair McGowan

Published by: Elspeth Rae on Wednesday 21st October 2009 08:10pm

Timing, set in a trendy Soho sound studio is the first play written by impressionist Alistair McGowan. He bravely opts for fixed time and place, never leaving the studio, and plays on form by splitting scenes in two, the actor couple with a past on one side of the invisible glass, the producers and their angst on the other.

 

WED 21st

Kes

Published by: Steve Burbridge on Wednesday 21st October 2009 05:10pm

Kes

Beautifully staged and beautifully acted, ‘Kes’ is one of the most haunting and thought-provoking plays I have seen in a long while.

Steve Burbridge.

Photo: Robert Day

WED 21st

Steve Burbridge In Conversation With . . . Bernie Nolan

Published by: Steve Burbridge on Wednesday 21st October 2009 05:10pm

AS lead singer of The Nolans for thirteen years, Bernie Nolan travelled all over the world and enjoyed phenomenal success with her sisters. The group’s global record sales topped 25 million and earned them more than twenty gold, silver and platinum discs. After pursuing a successful solo career, Bernie is back with Linda, Coleen and Maureen on a sell-out UK Tour, which comes to The Metro Radio Arena on Friday. Ahead of the gig, she tells STEVE BURBRIDGE why she’s really in the mood for dancing.

 

WED 21st

The Pitmen Painters

Published by: Louise Winter on Wednesday 21st October 2009 01:10pm

classes. Initially he showed the men slides of Renaissance art.

This approach did not engage the men so a more practical approach was suggested; the men were to start making images themselves. Lyon first encouraged them to try linocuts and then to start painting..

Each member of the exemplary cast must be mentioned Deka Walmsley, David Whitaker, Michael Hodgson, Brian Lonsdale, and Lisa McGrillis. Performances are faultless and this is no doubt due, in part, to the fact that this remains the original cast from the premiere in 2007. 

Hall intimately understands his subjects and the community about which he writes but never resorts to sentimentality. Nor is he patronising to us or to them.

MON 19th

PAPER FLOWERS, written by Egon Wolff.

Published by: TREMAYNE (Potter) on Monday 19th October 2009 05:10pm

Both actors did a good job but I was drawn especially to the fragility laid bare in Eva’scharacter.  It is not an easy thing to do as an actor, to show your vulnerability and actress Laura Menendez managed to do this very convincingly.

 

 

 

SUN 18th

Enron - West End booking now open

Published by: Douglas McFarlane on Sunday 18th October 2009 10:10am

BOOKING NOW OPEN FOR THE WEST END TRANSFER OF

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a unique theatrical event. Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, it reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts new light on the current financial situation.