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REVIEW: Kinky Boots, London Cast Recording ✭✭✭✭

Music, Reviews, West End
Kinky Boots London Cast Album Review

Kinky Boots London Cast Recording Sony Music Classical Purchase A Copy Following on from their win at this year’s Olivier Awards, the London cast recording of Kinky Boots has now been released. As with quite a few cast albums produced to accompany West End productions of late (Made In Dagenham and Legally Blonde amongst others), this album was recorded live in the Adelphi Theatre over several performances with an audience present. This live recording can have several benefits when it comes to the recording of stage musicals. I’ve heard studio based cast albums where the soul of the show has been sanitised out of the recording in a studio setting in the search for a perfect recording. In this recording of Kinky Boots, the live recording works to the benefit of the show and you really get a feel of the live experience. It also allows for important dialogue in … Read more

REVIEW: Deathwatch, Print Room At The Coronet ✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
Deathwatch - Print Room At The Coronet

Deathwatch Print Room At The Coronet 14 April 2016 3 Stars About as French as a pasty, and just as heavy. Jean Genet is running amok on our London stages at the moment. After scandalising us in The Maids at the Trafalgar Studios he’s back to finish the job with David Rudkin’s translation of Deathwatch at The Print Room, Coronet, directed by Geraldine Alexander. Three convicts trapped in the same small cell struggle to maintain social order as they compete for the favour of condemned murderer Green Eyes. To a modern audience this play’s claustrophobia facilitates a deconstruction of masculinity, and Genet enjoys provoking his audience by inverting societal codes of morality as the men glamourise and sexualise their brutality. Unfortunately, these noble aspirations are suffocated under laboured and repetitive text that never feels as dangerous or as visceral as it should. Having never been to The Print Room at … Read more

REVIEW: Bug, Found 111 Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
James Norton in Bug at Found111 Theatre

Simon Evans’ production of Bug is a visceral and immersive piece, which lives up to Tracey Letts’ excellent script. Kate Fleetwood and James Norton deliver deeply moving performances, complimented by a strong supporting cast and sublime set, lighting and sound design. It is a brilliantly judged production, which will set your pulse racing, and linger long in the memory.