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The weekend I saw my teenage musical obsessions, decades later (opens the original)
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OHMYGOD HEY!Welcome back to my weekly collation of the various reviews, opinion pieces and theatre news updates I’ve shared across multiple social media platforms.Back when I was a teenage theatregoer, I would schedule the majority of my trips on Saturdays, working for a few hours in the morning at a local library before sprinting onto a London bound train for a show or two. Nowadays, the press night calendar tends to keep me busier midweek while the weekends are reserved for catching up on edit
Women’s stories matter - and do they also make better plays? (opens the original)
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OHMYGOD HEY!Welcome back to my weekly collation of the various reviews, opinion pieces and theatre news updates I’ve shared across multiple social media platforms.It has been said by many that if all major acting awards were to be made genderless, that female actors would lose out on nominations and wins to their male peers. In addition to the mounting evidence that this isn’t necessarily likely (2023 Tony Awards, anybody?), I propose that it’s ignorant of the alternative reality that many of th
All the shows are opening or closing, except the one that isn’t... (opens the original)
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OHMYGOD HEY!Welcome back to my weekly collation of the various reviews, opinion pieces and theatre news updates I’ve shared across multiple social media platforms.As it turns out, leaving my job in education didn’t spare me from the early September back-to-school gear shift, as last week brought a jam packed schedule of opening nights and daytime press events. On Tuesday I raced between a media event for Into the Woods, soon opening at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End, and a press night p
It’s my Birthday and I’ll spend 24 hours rehearsing a musical if I want to... (opens the original)
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OHMYGOD HEY!Welcome back to my weekly collation of the various reviews, opinion pieces and theatre news updates I’ve shared across multiple social media platforms.Any observation of my slightly reduced output (and indeed the late release of this very instalment) can be explained away by my unusual pre-birthday weekend activities - a return to Camberley Theatre’s annual 24 Hour Musical in order to seize an entire day rehearsing and subsequently performing a mystery musical.This year marked the ev
How I ended up at a West German theatre festival... (opens the original)
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OHMYGOD HEY!Welcome back to my weekly collation of the various reviews, opinion pieces and theatre news updates I’ve shared across multiple social media platforms.Evidently I’m allergic not just to a handful of citrus fruits but also to restful time at home because I spent less than a week in my flat after getting back from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before flying to Düsseldorf for an entirely different festival.I had discovered Ruhrtriennale, an almost 25 year old arts festival taking place
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