REVIEW: Night Of The Living Dead Live, Pleasance Theatre London ✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the stage adaptation of George A Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead now playing at the Pleasance Theatre, London.
Jennifer Harding
REVIEW: It’s Only Life, Union Theatre ✭✭✭
Julian Eaves reviews It’s Only Life a review featuring the songs of John Bucchino now playing at the Union Theatre.
New Musical It’s Only Life Comes To The Union Theatre
It’s Only Life, a musical review featuring the songs of John Bucchino comes to the Union Theatre this June for a limited season.
REVIEW: The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Landor Theatre ✭✭✭✭
It’s a great story, but the show’s most glittering treasure is its music. There are folk tunes, love songs, impassioned ballads, comedy numbers, patter songs, soaring melodies, complex harmonies and splendid polyphony, all with a sprinkle of Irish jig around the edges. The inherent power and attraction of the score is helped in no small measure by a superbly assured delivery of the most difficult, and gorgeous, music by Jennifer Harding who excels in the central role of Constance. This is an engaging, absorbing, fantastical musical, radiant with possibility and truth. It’s confronting in parts and heartbreaking in others. And it is full of magical moments.
The Clockmaker’s Daughter Casting Announced
Casting has been announced for The Clockmaker’s Daughter, an original musical by new writers Daniel Finn and Michael Webborn which has its world premier at the Landor Theatre in May. The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a folk musical with a specific, yet timeless, feel with a story built around the themes of prejudice, discrimination, animosity and fear of the unknown. Spindlewood, like most towns of age, has its traditions. But no practice, custom or Old Wives Warning is so firmly adhered to as ‘The Turning of the Key’. Every year, on the last night of winter, as the first day of spring unfolds, the townsfolk gather to take part in a strange ritual. They meet in the centre of the town square, where a statue bearing the likeness of a young girl stands, poised and still, one hand raised as if to toast the sky. Constance has stood in the square for … Read more
