Category: Theatre

To the Red Rose Comedy Club to see Alex Horne perfom When In Rome, an attempt to get more of us speaking Latin. Of course, I passed my O Level in Latin many moons ago (Grade C), so this wasn’t strictly necessary for me, but I went along. We got there early to get some…

Last week, just after (re-)opening night, I got to see Christian Slater reprise his role in the stage adaptation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. To many people, it’s hard to get beyond Jack Nicholson’s screen version of it from 1978. That’s not such a great problem for me, as it’s simply many years…

So where do we begin with Ducktastic? It’s a new play written by the guys who wrote The Play What I Wrote about Morecombe and Wise. It revolves around someone who was previously “the biggest breakfast time magician on the Vegas strip” and who performs magic with a duck flavour (not in the Chinese “duck”…

It’s ages since I last went to the theatre, and that would have almost certainly been a freebie from my friend Simon who works for a theatre marketing company. Yesterday, I read an interview with Richard Griffith in The Observer. He’s in a new play called Heroes, a translation by Tom Stoppard of a French…