I've been intending to watch a performance of the Prospero Theatre for quite a while, and glad I have finally found the time on this sunny but bitingly cold Friday. Prospero Theatre's intention to create and deliver "Exceptional art that speaks with the Voice of an Inclusive Society" has been shared on many summer and … Continue reading A fairytale double-bill: Being a guest of the Prospero Theatre
Heading to a drag panto is almost a logical action between Christmas and New Year celebration, embracing both glam, silliness and good spirits: Everyone can be in drag, everyone can be a panto dame, non-binary and cis performers alike - drag is no longer a boys-only club. And everyone is welcome who can embrace smutty scurrilous jokes adult (age guidance 16+) about … Continue reading Forgive your stylist – Sleeping Beauty as a West End drag panto at the Harold Pinter Theatre
On arrival from the vaults of its car park, the massive multilevel foyer of the Fairfield Halls in London's Borough Of Culture 2023 Croydon is breathtakingly busy. People in Christmas hats and jumpers take family pictures on almost every corner, in front of fairy light curtains, on stairs and the funky Christmas trees crowned with disco balls, … Continue reading Croydon is London’s Borough Of Culture 2023: Aladdin at Fairfield Halls
As a lifelong Hans-Christian Andersen listener and reader, I am keen to join as many stage interpretations of my favourite fairy tale as I can, and am therefore very excited to visit Wimbledon's Polka Theatre for the first time. It is a venue dedicated to productions for children which has been based here since 1979. … Continue reading The girls have spoken: Five stars for The Snow Queen at the Polka Theatre
The Minack Theatre is on every stage loving person's bucket list - an openair amphitheatre hewn into the cliff's of one of the furthest and remotest corners of beautiful Cornwall, overseeing the ocean, the sandy beaches of Porthcurno bay with the South West Coast Path throwning above it, separated through ancient rock formation and wild … Continue reading Calvino Nights – How to do an evening at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall
A model train takes us in the spooky intro on a journey to Grimsby: Accompanied first by the harmonica, then the birdsong from The Juniper Tree, it is interpreted as a shanty for one, fitting our times and the North German original – the more than morbid, taboo-heavy story of the Juniper Tree is one … Continue reading Grimm Tales for Fragile Times and Broken People by Creation Theatre’s new Repertory Company
After a long day of working from home as I have done since March, I am too tired to switch on my camera for this online evening of storytelling and opt for the role as a silent listener. Fellow listeners here are far more interactive, greeting friends and relatives in the southern hemisphere, present their … Continue reading Zoom into Wintery Tales – an online evening of storytelling
Critics and fans list The Tiger’s Bride among The Company of Wolves continuously as a favourite of Angela Carter’s fairy tale retellings in The Bloody Chamber which was first published in 1979. My edition counts twenty pages of this interpretation of The Beauty and Beast myth: A young girl has been lost in a card … Continue reading Please respect the paywall: Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride by the Marvellous Machine Theatre Company in Oxford
Constantly yearning for more dramatizations of Hans Christian Andersen’s oeuvre, I am blocking my calendar immediately when hearing that the London Dreamtime / Cunning Folk bunch does a personal favourite of his literary fairy tales, The Snow Queen. I have been to storytelling events by Vanessa Woolf and George Hoyle before; an evening walk by … Continue reading A London Dreamtime: The Snow Queen at the Union Chapel in Islington
You cannot imagine my excitement when I heard that in Hamburg an immersive experience with plenty of interactive projection art dedicated to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm would open. Having only opened in September, pre-booking is highly advised and as with most pre-booked events in Hamburg (no matter if a theatre or musical … Continue reading An immersive Grimm fairy tale – visiting the Märchenwelten in Hamburg
Sadie takes the Stage 