EverAfter: A Mixed Up Fairytale continues at the Chickenshed Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The Brothers Grimm are trying to write stories but their characters keep escaping and getting mixed up. There are four brothers, one of whom (Lauren Cambridge) is female. Cue for witty, topical comments about gender […]
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Rapunzel – Chickenshed Theatre
Rapunzel from Chickenshed Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ The online premiere of Chickenshed’s 2017 show is as large scale and glitzy as we’ve come to expect from this ebulliently inclusive company. Framed by a story about six children falling asleep and embarking on a dreamy quest to find their storyteller/Rapunzel (Cerys […]
Bursts of brilliance from the year theatre stopped
We could have been born with a love of television or comic books or 1930s radio plays. That wouldn’t have been quite so bad. But no, Dionysus, god of theatre, took one look at us and decreed: “On top of the worldwide suffering and loss from Coronavirus, you are to spend the 2020 pandemic almost […]
Peter Pan – Chickenshed Theatre
Peter Pan – from Chickenshed Theatre, London. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Chickenshed has done a commendable, steady job during the pandemic. Unable to mount new shows and open its doors to audiences for most of the last 10 months it has instead released a series of earlier shows via YouTube. Peter […]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Chickenshed Theatre
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from Chickenshed Theatre is available on YouTube until 31 January 2021. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Chickenshed produces good, enjoyable theatre. Yes, we all know it offers children’s and youth theatre like no other organisation in the country, that it runs a degree programme, works with vulnerable […]
Mr Stink – Chickenshed Theatre
Mr Stink at Chickenshed Theatre, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is the sort of warm-hearted, thoughtful show you need to take a child to. So I did: my third granddaughter who is nine. I explained to her how star ratings work as we journeyed there up the Piccadilly line […]
