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Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theatre. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

On The Art of the Pre-Show and Post-Show

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My friend, Terry Eden, wrote a post earlier this week about pre- and post- show experiences in the theatre and it's got me thinking... ...
Tuesday, December 03, 2024

My Month in Theatre: November 2024

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A round-up of shows and performances seen in November 2024. I've been challenged by a friend to keep a better record of what shows I...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Glorious French Revolution (or: Why Sometimes it Takes a Guillotine to Get Anything Done) - a review

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If history lessons had been more like this when I was growing up, I might just have paid a bit more attention to history that was older than...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

National Theatre to trial 6.30pm start times

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I think this is a great idea. The National Theatre is trialling an earlier start time for selected performances - initially on Tuesdays and...
Tuesday, March 02, 2021

Why is theatre important?

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  Theatre skills don’t just get you a job in the theatre. The things we learn through theatre can be applied to so many different career pa...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Mobile phone etiquette raises its head again...

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I go to the theatre a lot and inevitably, at some shows, there will be a mobile phone that starts ringing part-way through the performance. ...
Saturday, December 02, 2017

What are we going to do about the theatre and the performing arts?

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That's the question posed by director, Phelim McDermott, and it will be the question asked in January's annual D&D (Devoted ...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Will we be experiencing theatre via VR in the future?

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RSC Titus Andronicus 2017 I've been reading about a study by the RSC and Ipsos Mori done during a run of Titus Andronicus in Stra...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Watching good theatre is good for your heart

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This cheers me up enormously. This year, I set myself a challenge to see at least 50 shows. It turns out that has been both an enjoyable cha...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Love Theatre Day is Today!

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Action shot from the fabulous School of Rock Blimey, I nearly missed this. I've just discovered that it's #LoveTheatreDay and i...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

Rodelinda - a tale of obsession

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I was fortunate to go to the opera last night to see Rodelinda by Handel at The Coliseum. As I've previously mentioned, I'm no o...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Tips on buying discount theatre tickets in London

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The Olivier Theatre from the back of the Circle for Peter Pan Over the last few years, I've rekindled my love of theatre. Some of yo...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Ugly Lies the Bone, Virtual Reality and The Power of Theatre

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Much as I'm interested in new technologies, Virtual Reality (VR) has never been my thing. I suffer from vertigo from time to time and, f...
Monday, December 19, 2016

My year in London theatre - a round-up of 2016

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I’m very lucky. Not only do I have a love for theatre, I have friends who work in the theatre sector which means I can sometimes score a fre...