KINKY Boots, the film, came out in 2005, and was followed by Cyndi Lauper’s multi-award winning musical of the same name in 2012. It has arrived at Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre, performed by the versatile, plucky and very talented Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society – now known more modernly as YAOS Productions – and it’s on until…
AFTER Everton’s crushing 5-0 defeat by Tottenham Hotspurs in their last Premier League game, oh how Bill Kenwright must be wishing and hoping that his beloved football club, of which he is a lifelong fan and previous Chairman, will follow in the footsteps of this production and burst into life, performing at the top of…
Dove Sunshine Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 Schubert Symphony No. 9 ‘The Great’ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, leader Amyn Merchant Mark Wigglesworth, conductor, Imogen Cooper, piano CURRENT tragic events in Ukraine are impossible to ignore, especially for an orchestra whose chief conductor for the last 13 years is the Ukrainian Kirill Karabits. Kirill was not…
WHEN you have a stage full of brilliantly created life-sized puppets, expertly manoeuvred and voiced, the storyline within the play being presented can undermined, at times almost forgotten. In the case of Robert Icke’s intense adaptation of George Orwell’s 1945 novella there was never a chance that the story would slip into the background. Brutally…
GERALD Sibleyras’s play An Hour-and-a-Half Late is recognisably French, a sort of Yasmina Reza-lite, following a pattern set by both she and Florian Zeller of small-cast, intense, domestic stories of family function and dysfunction. But the new play, adapted and directed by Belinda Lang and starting its six-venue UK tour at Bath, is also very…
IT is all very well to let modern technology take over from old fashioned pieces of paper for checking entry to a theatre, but when, as happened for a short while last evening, that technology goes awry, a long queue quickly develops. The result was a 15-minute delay before this polished and rehearsed-within-an-inch-of-its-life production could…
ON their classic 1962 album Nat King Cole sings, George Shearing plays, those two great artists combined to give a truly memorable rendition of Jerome Kern’s 1936 song Pick Yourself Up. Dorothy Fields lyrics start with the lines “Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again”, and those…
THE story of the Little Mermaid is complicated enough, but when the denouement happens at the same time as 22 small children decide to stand pressed to the front of the stage, jumping up and down and shouting instructions, it takes a good deal of skill and volume from the actors to keep a play…
MOST lovers of the 2007 film Waitress – and there are millions of them throughout the world – will be happy with Jessie Nelson’s adaptation and Sara Bareilles music and lyrics. Between them they have captured the quirky humour and distinct Southern States of America atmosphere. The music, which for the most part works almost…
IT used to be common for popular books or plays to be adapted into films – now, it’s films being made into plays. In recent years we have had Billy Elliot, The Lion King, Hairspray and The Girl on the Train. Just last week, Bath had the disappointing stage version of Dan Brown’s The Da…