Not Too Tame’s production of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot will feature actor, comedian and TV presenter Les Dennis as Malvolio. This “brilliantly bold” production of Shakespeare’s comedy follows the company’s previous production at the same venue of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 2022 (featured on the BTG podcast at the time). The new production promises, “a contemporary… Continue reading Les Dennis in Not Too Tame Shakespeare
Month: February 2024
Thacker to direct Mamet in Salford
Former Octagon Artistic Director David Thacker will direct David Mamet’s American Buffalo for Rising Moon Productions at The Kings Arms in Salford. A junk shop. Midwest America. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between… Continue reading Thacker to direct Mamet in Salford
Belfast’s c21 announces US premiere in Washington DC
Belfast’s c21 Theatre Company has revealed the details of its first visit to the Keegan Theatre in Washington DC in May when it will present the American première of Charis McRoberts’s Expecting. First seen in Belfast’s The Mac in May 2023 and subsequently at the Edinburgh Fringe, Expecting is a portrait of a young couple—deaf mother Shauna and hearing father… Continue reading Belfast’s c21 announces US premiere in Washington DC
Jesus Christ Superstar
The 2016 multi-award-winning Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar now begins the 2024 leg of its UK tour at Leicester’s Curve, not that many weeks since the venue staged its own production of Evita, another Rice / Lloyd Webber classic. Last weekend, Ralph Fiennes caused a ripple in the media pond on BBC One’s Sunday… Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar
When You Pass Over My Tomb
Franco-Uraguayan dramatist Sergio Blanco, one of South America’s most performed living playwrights, calls his work “autofiction” and he puts a writer with his name at its centre, a Sergio played here by Al Nedjari. No that’s not quite right: actor Al Nedjari is playing himself as a ghost; it is the ghost who plays Sergio… Continue reading When You Pass Over My Tomb
Noises off
Most of the cast of Michael Frayn’s frenetic farce will have clocked up close to 150 performances by the time it ends its six-month UK tour in Oxford next week. With the sort of energy they bring to the show, if this were sport, someone would be looking at what they put in their tea.… Continue reading Noises off
The Full Monty
There have been so many variations on The Full Monty—film, musical, TV series—it is considered necessary to advise potential customers that the current touring production is ‘The Play’. The company takes seriously their responsibility to the actors—choreographer Ian West doubles as intimacy co-ordinator and the audience is warned taking photos will result in possible legal action… Continue reading The Full Monty
Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!
While stage versions of old sitcoms aren’t uncommon—John Cleese has recently announced that Fawlty Towers will come to theatres later in the year, to join the likes of Porridge, Steptoe and Son, Yes, Prime Minister and several others—it is less common for almost the full original cast to be reassembled for a UK tour with a brand new script. Drop the… Continue reading Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening!
Boy On The Roof
Touching, funny, poignant, clever, insightful and technically flawless—this is a must-see show for anyone who enjoys theatre at its best and knows, supports or is someone who is neurodivergent, isolated or just finding life difficult to cope with. Vamos Theatre was founded by writer-director Rachael Savage in 2006 as a platform for masked, non verbal… Continue reading Boy On The Roof
Opera North Resonance artists for 2024
Opera North has announced the five artists chosen for this year’s Resonance residencies: Ellen Beth Abdi, Balraj Samrai, Rory A Green, Jonas Jones and Satnam Galsian. Resonance offers resources to professional music-makers from the Global Majority based in the north of England, to enable them to experiment with collaborators and fresh ideas and to try… Continue reading Opera North Resonance artists for 2024