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 […]
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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 […]
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – Chickenshed – YouTube
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow is available on Chickenshed’s YouTube channel. This vibrant show, featuring Chickenshed’s trademark cast of hundreds won the 2019 Off West End Award (Offie) for the best production for young people of 13-plus. Conceived and directed by Chickenshed’s artistic director Lou Stein, the show consists of a series of six large-scale, […]
A Christmas Carol – Chickenshed Theatre
A Christmas Carol continues at Chickenshed Theatre, London until 5 January 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Move over Cecil B DeMille. This 1930s take on A Christmas Carol has a cast of 800. Chickenshed does nothing by halves. The company’s diverse, inclusive USP is ensemble, ensemble, ensemble with some talented adults (mostly former Chickenshed […]
