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
Greenwich Theatre is one of those London venues I have passed plenty of times but never visited. Only a few walking minutes away from Greenwich train station, I arrive for The Luminous just in time to put my name in the theatre's guestbook and to get a ginger beer from the well-equipped bar. The amount … Continue reading Stay safe – RedCape’s The Luminous at Greenwich Theatre
My excitement to return to the very welcoming Southwark Playhouse is matched by looking forward to a new retelling of Oscar Wilde's 1890s classic novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray - a very readable, sharp and witty masterpiece of timeless societal observation, morals challenged by vanity and curiosity, not only of the Victorian era but … Continue reading It’s a challenger: Dorian – The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse
There is something genuinely autumn-like about celebrating the 120th anniversary of the release of the most popular Sherlock Holmes story with a staged audio play – even if not staged in an historic estate in Dartmoor or in London’s Baker Street but at the tour start at the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill, Surrey. Audio plays … Continue reading Sherlock Holmes and The Hound Of The Baskervilles – a touring audio play on stage
The mysteries around the 1827 murder of a 25-year-old country woman from rural Suffolk have survived the Victorian era as the Red Barn Murder and led to several stage and screen adaptations already – but too much focus was put on the murderer, playwright Beth Flintoff realised whose play is dedicated to the actual victim, and … Continue reading The Ballad of Maria Marten at Wiltons Music Hall
Wise Children are back on our home screens - I hope that a filmed staging at the Bristol Old Vic might become an annual event, happily bridging the bleak weeks between Halloween scares and Christmas season. Other than last year when we watched The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk from home, we share the experience with … Continue reading Wise Children are back on our home screens with Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Sadie takes the Stage 