08/02/2024 by Peter Viney
Any production by Emma Rice’s Wise Children Theatre Company is an event. BLUE BEARD (link to review) is now on tour and we saw it in its first theatre on the run, Bath. Marvellous music, played by all the cast too. I think there are some teething problems, but all-in-al a must see.
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07/02/2024 by Peter Viney
Review of METAMORPHOSES at Bath Ustinov. Great contemporary dance theatre. Follow the link to the short review.
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04/02/2024 by Peter Viney
The recent addition to AROUND and AROUND is EMI’s Harvest label (follow link). EMI’s prog label’s glory years were brief, yet in a short time they accumulated a catalogue which is now disproportionately high in collectability. Pink Floyd was the obvious centre, but key early 70s albums were on Harvest.
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04/02/2024 by Peter Viney
W. Somerset Maugham’s THE CIRCLE is on tour (review linked). We saw it at Chichester. Casting is a great plus, with Jane Asher, Nicholas Le Prevost and Clive Francis exuding the quality and articulation of long stage experience. The younger element, Olivia Vinall, Peter Ashmore and Daniel Burke are right up there with them. It’s as good a version of the play as you will find, and very funny, though how good Maugham was as a playwright is a question.
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21/01/2024 by Peter Viney
Review of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING… EARNEST? (follow link) by the Say it Again. Sorry? company, touring everywhere until July. It will be near most UK readers. This is a take on the play where, due to various mishaps, audience participants gradually replace the cast. This is a somewhat unusual review, and a clear 5 star one!
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09/01/2024 by Peter Viney
Oh,dear. review of THE FAMOUS FIVE: THE CURSE OF KIRREN ISLAND (linked), the 2023 BBC +TV Movie, available on iPlayer/ How anyone could combine The Famous Five with a mishmash of secondhand scenes from Indiana Jones, The Da Vinci Code, Hammer Horror is a mystery. Hopefully this review will be funny though. And the scenery’s great.
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08/01/2024 by Peter Viney
Capitol – sleeves and designs (linked) is now up on AROUND AND AROUND
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06/01/2024 by Peter Viney
LINK TO MY RANT ‘Mail v Guardian’ which I have been updating since 2020. The latest update is today.
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03/01/2024 by Peter Viney
The latest label added to AROUND AND AROUND is Capitol- Part Two (LINKED). This is the longest one so far. It covers so many major artists … Cannonball Adderley, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Band, Glen Campbell, Crowded House, Dr Hook, Bobbie Gentry, and that’s only A to G. Most of the record label articles are restricted because the label had a finite life. Capitol started in 1942 and is still active in 2024. Part one went to 1962. This part starts with rock and roll and moves on.
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18/12/2023 by Peter Viney
We continue with the BBC Noël Coward collection DVDs with DESIGN FOR LIVING (follow link), a 1932 play which the BBC produced more explicitly than any stage version had dared in 1979. It starred Rula Lenska (direct from Rock Follies) and has a cameo from Dandy Nicholls. This is one of the ‘old film’ style reviews here, which means with enough illustration to tell the whole story.
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