It is an exciting morning: For the first time I but also my assistant mini-reviewers are visiting the Unicorn Theatre, since 2005 only a few walking minutes away from both London and Tower Bridge. All three of us have committed to confront our arachnophobia this Halloween season ("there is an upside down bucket on the floor … Continue reading Excited about Anansi the Spider – a first trip to the Unicorn Theatre
Salome is the story of a Judean king's unmarried stepdaughter agreeing to perform a taboo-breaking dance for her mother's husband in return of the head of a prophet who has not only defamed her family but further refused her approaches. It is a dance in return for a life, an arousing, risky danse macabre on which her … Continue reading Oscar Wilde’s Salome at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Memories of Japanese summers begin with the chirping sound of the cicada for me - their high-frequented mating call filled every park in Tokyo and Kyoto during a trip of a lifetime. And it is indeed the cicadas' song which take me back, here at the West End's Gillian Lynne Theatre, acoustically illustrating the wonders … Continue reading My Friend Totoro on stage in the West End
Sadie takes the Stage 