REVIEW: Brief Encounter, Empire Cinema Haymarket ✭✭✭✭
Brief Encounter is a lovely, Mills and Boon’ish fantasy. It will certainly please the punters as it settles in for another long run, taking us through to December this year. Quite charming.
Brief Encounter is a lovely, Mills and Boon’ish fantasy. It will certainly please the punters as it settles in for another long run, taking us through to December this year. Quite charming.
Hope Springs is the Rolls-Royce of drag acts, not least for her ability to confect all her material, especially the exquisitely crafted and appealingly catchy songs, but also for the ingeniously thoughtful and dramatically fully realised mis-en-scenes that she dreams up as vehicles for each show
What a joy it is to discover such a pleasant, pretty and pertinent pair of talents as those of Mr Harry Blake and Ms Alice Keedwell, especially when showcased in such a beautiful presentation as this delightful ‘comedy musical’, debuted last week at The Vaults
If we had some more cocaine, then maybe the play would have seemed a whole lot better. But we didn’t. Cue Carole King…. ‘Up on the roof’.
This extraordinary, iconic, intoxicating work is a remarkable phenomenon and should be approached very much in the manner in which it is intended to be understood.
I could go on talking about the delights of The Pearls Of Cleopatra for ages, but that might unnecessarily detain you from booking a flight to Berlin to see it for yourself.
I Have A Bad Feeling About This House of Blakewell, Vaults Festival 21 – 25 February 2018 Book Now For those of us who are HOB virgins, the prospect of finally being able to discover the ins and outs of this fringe cult is a pleasant one indeed, and this year the Vaults Fest regulars return with a new show, new songs, new material, reaching out to new audiences as well as keeping their growing fan base happy. Announced as a ‘cabaret musical’, and festooned with wreaths of laurels gathered from previous productions, Harry Blake and Alice Keedwell’s latest offering opens on 21st February and is sure to prove a popular draw. The pair took some time out from rehearsals – and life – to speak to me about it. Harry composes the music and Alice the lyrics and text, although there seems to be quite a lot of give … Read more
The Boring Room is hardly worth all that effort. And, if you’re thinking of going, think long and hard before you do.