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 […]
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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 […]
Oranges and Elephants – Hoxton Hall
Oranges and Elephants continues at Hoxton Hall, London until 10 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The World Premiere of Lil Warren’s Oranges and Elephants which boasts that over 30 women are directly involved in the production, is the impressive launch of Hoxton Hall’s all-female spring season (Female Parts). This actor-musician, […]
Full cast for Hoxton Hall musical Oranges and Elephants
Hoxton Hall artistic director Karena Johnson has announced full casting for the world premiere of Oranges and Elephants, the first production in the London venue’s all-female spring season Female Parts. With a book and lyrics by Lil Warren and music by Jo Collins, the story of two rival female gangs in Victorian London will play […]
Interview – Sweeney Todd writer Christopher Bond on his latest show, Romford Rose
CHRISTOPHER BOND is probably best known to theatregoers as the playwright of the 1970 version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street that pumped new blood into George Dibdin Pitt’s bloody melodrama (“It needed a heart transplant, not a facelift,” says Bond) and inspired Stephen Sondheim to create his musical magnum opus six […]
Christopher Bond’s country musical Romford Rose to open at Queen’s Hornchurch
Playwright Christopher Bond’s new country-tinged musical Romford Rose will debut at Hornchurch’s Queen’s Theatre at the end of this month. The show from the writer whose 1970s play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is widely acknowledged as the inspiration for Stephen Sondheim’s hit musical, will play the Queen’s from 27 May until […]
