Cockney night @ ACES. Chaz & Dave style band and local AmDram music hall knees up. 7/10
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Saturday, 16 February 2013
The Effect @ The Cottesloe
The Effect @ The Cottesloe. Billy Piper & Johnjo O'Neil, drug trial volunteers, bond & taunt each other in thought provoking 4 hander 8/10
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Anjin @ Sadlers Wells
Anjin @ Sadlers Well. True story of C17th William Adams, shipwrecked in Japan, & his rise within a noble feudal samurai waring society 5/10.
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour @ The O2
Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour@ The O2. Surreal kitsch. Grows on you. Dancing excellent/very good or comic. 7+/10. Band & singers 9/10
Monday, 28 January 2013
Les Miserables @ Stratford Picture House
Les Miserables @ Stratford Picture House. Absorbing and commendable film based on stage show songs and original Victor Hugo book. 7+/10
Late afternoon Sunday showing with only about 20 to 30 in the auditorium. Had not seen stage show or read the book so comment above based on others remarks. Went for Chinese buffet after the film. Very very poor. 2/10
Late afternoon Sunday showing with only about 20 to 30 in the auditorium. Had not seen stage show or read the book so comment above based on others remarks. Went for Chinese buffet after the film. Very very poor. 2/10
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Silent Opera @ Trinity Quay
Silent Opera @ Trinity Quay. Boat from The Eye past O2 to warehouse on river. Watch full performance of L'Orfeo with headphones. Great. 9/10
Well. This is the highlight of my arts year so far. Looking for something unconventional, high quality and entertaining go to this.
Our ticket included a Thames clipper transfer from Festival Pier in the centre of London along the Thames past the illuminated city, canary wharf, greenwich and the O2. Our destination was a warehouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
So what is silent opera? Opera singers miked up sing with the assistance of a small live band but the benefit of a full orchestras recording as backing. All three are mixed and broadcast wirelessly to the audience who listen using headsets. That in itself was novel enough but the staging of this montevierdi classic made it more so. With the audience in the performance space the action takes place all around you. They even manage to move the audience through three imaginative sets and and allow them to decide the fete of L'Orfeo at the end.
Well. This is the highlight of my arts year so far. Looking for something unconventional, high quality and entertaining go to this.
Our ticket included a Thames clipper transfer from Festival Pier in the centre of London along the Thames past the illuminated city, canary wharf, greenwich and the O2. Our destination was a warehouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
So what is silent opera? Opera singers miked up sing with the assistance of a small live band but the benefit of a full orchestras recording as backing. All three are mixed and broadcast wirelessly to the audience who listen using headsets. That in itself was novel enough but the staging of this montevierdi classic made it more so. With the audience in the performance space the action takes place all around you. They even manage to move the audience through three imaginative sets and and allow them to decide the fete of L'Orfeo at the end.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Quartermaine's Terms @ Wyndham theatre
Quartermaine's Terms@ The Wyndham. Set in a 60s EFL school staff room. Rowan Atkinson makes a humorous & gentle return to the West End 7+/10
Very good cast with strong performances all round. Rowan is clearly the main attraction for this new play. For those expecting Mr Bean they will be disappointed. The play has some Bean moments and it seems based on the performance tonight that much of the character is just Rowan being himself. Anyway not enough Mr Bean perhaps to stop a few members of the audience leaving at the interval. The play does not open until next week. One suspects for these preview performances that a lot of tickets have been given to those working in the industry and its easy for them to leave if they know they have a ready supply of free tickets to all the best shows. My wife and I paid almost £120 to see it. Not including programme and interval drinks.
4 act play with one interval. The Wyndhams is a great theatre although the royal circle bar is too small for the numbers wanting to use it
Very good cast with strong performances all round. Rowan is clearly the main attraction for this new play. For those expecting Mr Bean they will be disappointed. The play has some Bean moments and it seems based on the performance tonight that much of the character is just Rowan being himself. Anyway not enough Mr Bean perhaps to stop a few members of the audience leaving at the interval. The play does not open until next week. One suspects for these preview performances that a lot of tickets have been given to those working in the industry and its easy for them to leave if they know they have a ready supply of free tickets to all the best shows. My wife and I paid almost £120 to see it. Not including programme and interval drinks.
4 act play with one interval. The Wyndhams is a great theatre although the royal circle bar is too small for the numbers wanting to use it
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