Both the original TV series that this play was adapted from, and the actual events the story is based around, pre-date me, so I had to do a bit of reading before attending to bring myself up-to-speed. However, as a history student I was fascinated to learn more about unemployment in the 1980s (I’ve been […]
It’s always a pleasant surprise when an otherwise empty Friday night becomes an opportunity for a theatre review, thanks to The Churchill Theatre in Bromley and their run of DocDoc. Morris Gilbert and Óskar Eiriksson present the UK premiere of Laurent Baffie’s DocDoc, directed by Ian Talbot and translated by Julian Quintanilla. Dubbed ‘the hilarious […]
This was a new one for me. I like a good thriller, but Anthony Shaffer was a little before my time. Before tonight I’d never seen Sleuth – in the theatre or the 1972 film starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine – but when the Orchard Theatre (West) contacted us to say it was on, […]
Having seen Looking Good Dead at the Orchard last year, I was looking forward to my second Peter James thriller. Something a little different to the stellar musicals that they have hosted in Dartford recently. But for me, not having read any Peter James, there was an air of mystery around the storyline. The bio […]
What could be better than a night out watching the nation’s (and my own) favourite film on stage? Nothing, in my opinion, so I happily trotted up to The Orchard Theatre in Dartford last night to see The Shawshank Redemption. Many of you will be familiar with the film if not the book, but in […]
It was back to the Orchard Theatre, Darford for another press night, tonight was Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party. Beverly Moss invites her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, who moved into the road just two weeks ago, over for drinks. She has also invited her neighbour Susan (Sue), divorced for three years, whose fifteen-year-old daughter […]
After less than a week apart I was back at the Churchill Theatre to begin yet another two show week, it was a perfect one to kick start it! The Full Monty returns in its current 2018/2019 UK tour, this award winning play by Simon Beaufoy tells the story of six unemployed men-four of them former […]
I was invited to attend this production by a very close friend who didn’t want to miss out on a chance on seeing Orlando Bloom on stage. I kindly accepted – like i was going to turn down a chance to see a play in London?!? When we took our seats in Studio 1 at […]
I was back at the Churchill Theatre for tonight’s opening night of this weeks performance of Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, adapted for the stage by Rachel Wagstaff. I for one have not had the chance to read the well known novel, but I was looking forward to seeing it live. This year marks 100th Anniversary of the end […]
Having been parted for quite some time, I was returning to the Churchill for the Press Night of the classic Oscar Wilde comedy play The Importance of Being Earnest. I had never seen this play before, always intrigued me to see what made it such a classic. I wasn’t disappointed. I took my seat in Row M […]