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A Brief Case of Crazy comes to the Riverside Studios after being called a “hidden gem” by the FringeReview at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hidden gem is an apt description, as in this show the Skedaddle Company (Rowan , Lennie Longworth and Samuel Cunningham) deliver a delightful movement-theatre based treat. Inspired by the likes of Buster…
This is an epic novel which my Book Group loved. It is very long so make sure to choose a time when everyone will have plenty of time to read. Strengths are that it does not shy away from difficult stories, troubled times or unhappy endings. The reader feels a part of the sweep of…
None of our book group would say that we enjoyed this but we are all delighted that we read it. Nobel Prize-winning Han Kang gives an important insight into an event in South Korean history that none of us knew about it. Even more important, it gave us an insight into the grief, resilience, internal…
Initially launched to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the ubiquitous NOW That’s What I Call Music compilation tapes, NOW That’s What I Call A Musical is a piece of fun and cheesy nostalgia. Set simultaneously in Birmingham in 1989 and 2009, this is unashamedly a juke box musical. The plot is fairly flimsy and relies…
Retrograde by Ryan Calais Cameron is a tense, thoughtful and compelling insight into the difficult intersection of McCarthyism and racism and its impact on the, then emerging, black actor Sidney Poitier (Ivanno Jeremiah). Transferring from the Kiln theatre to a West End run at the Apollo, the 90 minutes play through perhaps one of the…
The role of sport in the national psyche is a curious and culturally unique one. New Zealand has its love of All Blacks, America has the Super Bowl and England has football. Won once, in 1966, but with a constant expectation that it should be “coming home” ever since: amazement and fury when it does…
Based on Annie Ernaux’s 2008 historical memoir Les Années, The Years examines the life of one woman from 1941 through to 2006. Her personal milestones are portrayed alongside significant world events; reminding audiences that all of us living at the same time share experiences and that those experiences in turn shape us. The play has perhaps…
Sisyphean Quick Fix comes to the Riverside Studios after being Awarded BEST PLAY and Theatre Weekly’s Best of the Fest ’24 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024. Written by Bettina Paris, who also stars as Krista, it is based on her own lived experience. Tina Rizzo plays her devoted sister Pip, left behind in…
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly if people outside Ealing realised just what a jewel the Questor’s Theatre is? While an amateur theatre, shows such as its recent My Fair Lady demonstrate that it is capable of producing shows which rival the West End for both imagination and quality. It was at The Questor’s, for example, where…
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