Sasha Regan’s high-spirited, fun-loving production has a wonderfully playful energy about it, and the cast are clearly having a whale of a time, but it isn’t too hard to see why the show has rather languished in obscurity.
BLONDEL – Union Theatre
Set in the 1180’s, King Richard the Lionheart (played by Neil Moors) proclaims he will set off on a Crusade, and go to war with Saladin in the Middle East, leaving the county in the hands of the maniacal Prince John (James Thackeray).
BLONDEL – Union Theatre
Set in the 1180’s, King Richard the Lionheart (played by Neil Moors) proclaims he will set off on a Crusade, and go to war with Saladin in the Middle East, leaving the county in the hands of the maniacal Prince John (James Thackeray).
BLONDEL – Union Theatre
As a regular theatre goer I’m often asked by friends what plays and musicals I’d most like to see a production of… not the shows I just haven’t had a chance to catch but the ones that don’t really get to see the light of day. Somehow in the past year The Union Theatre has managed to tick two off from right at the top of the list.
CATCH ME – Above the Arts Theatre
For Catch Me is a musical based around male suicide, the mental health struggles that lead people to such an act and the repercussions it has on those left behind.
NEWS: New musical about male suicide, Catch Me, opens Above the Arts
Catch Me, a new musical about male suicide, will run at London’s Above the Arts Theatre from 21 November to 3 December 2016, with a press night on 23 November.