Moonfleet continues at the Salisbury Playhouse until 5 May 2018. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ J Meade Falkner’s novel Moonfleet is ripe for the transition from page to stage. If anything, it’s a more rollicking yarn than Treasure Island. Smugglers, contraband, hidden treasure, creepy crypts, storms at sea, shipwrecks, a youthful […]
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Cast revealed for Moonfleet musical at Salisbury Playhouse
Casting has been announced for the premiere of a major new musical based on classic adventure story Moonfleet which is due to open at the Salisbury Playhouse in April. Heading the cast are: Earl Carpenter (Les Misérables; The Phantom of the Opera; Sunset Boulevard) playing Maskew, with Ryan Heenan (Grease, UK tour; Sweeney Todd, Derby […]
Princess Ida – Finborough Theatre
Princess Ida continues at the Finborough Theatre, London until 18 April. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ This is only the fourth time I’ve seen Princess Ida in a lifetime of Gilbert and Sullivan-going which has included many dozens of productions of The Mikado, HMS Pinafore and so on. And it’s more than 20 years since the last professional London production. A […]
