Cabaret at the Savoy Theatre – starts weird, gets weirder, ends badly. It’s great!

From the minute this show opens, the weirdness starts.  Will Young appears at the centre of the stage peering through a port hole.  His performance is excellent and I’m not a big Will Young fan. As the show goes on, the weirdness builds.  I particularly enjoyed the chorus who did look so sinister at times. […]

A chorus of disapproval – by Alan Ayckbourn, at the Harold Pinter Theatre

We loved this show!  We had chosen to see this show partly to see Rob Bryden in his first West-End show and partly because we were interested to see A Chorus of Disapproval.  We were not disappointed. The show is a play within a play.  It revolves around an amateur operatic society who are producing […]

The Doctor’s Dilemma – by Bernard Shaw at the National Theatre

It made quite a change for us to see a ‘traditional’ play – rather than the more modern productions we have seen recently.  Almost all of the shows we have seen at the National Theatre have been new plays, but this is a play written in 1906. The plot .. starts with Doctor Ridgeon being congratulated […]