He’s an entertainer remembered with great affection, perhaps by none more than Jack Lane, who’s built a one-man show around the great man; a whistle-stop tour of his life and career.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On…Wisdom of a Fool’s Jack Lane
I play Norman Wisdom in a one man play called Wisdom of a Fool, It looks at his early life and career taking you from childhood up until the making of his first feature film, Trouble in Store.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL The Musical – Lost Theatre
The current production of A Christmas Carol – The Musical captures LOST’s ethos and the spirt of Christmas in all of its joyful, communal and tacky glory with a cast composed of both amateurs and pros, including children.
BOYS – Lost Theatre
Boys, Ella Hickson’s play, alludes to a teenage girl patronisingly rolling her eyes at the clumsy and emotionally immature endeavours of her male school mates.
BOYS – Lost Theatre
Boys, Ella Hickson’s play, alludes to a teenage girl patronisingly rolling her eyes at the clumsy and emotionally immature endeavours of her male school mates.
MUSICAL OF THE YEAR – Lost Theatre
“I yearn as I burn”… Stephen Lanigan-O’Keeffe and Owain Rose’s Musical of the Year pops up as something of a surprise, a genuinely funny musical theatre extravaganza in the mould of something like Forbidden Broadway as it parodies any number of big musicals from the last 60 years.
KITTEN IN HEELS – Lost Theatre
Dear Santa, in 2016 can we please have no more fringe pantos put on for fifty quid? I want transformations, flying and glitter. Thank you.
What’s life like for a stage manager on an adult pantomime?
Our Featured Show – Excess All Areas’ new adult pantomime, Kitten in Heels – opens this week at London’s LOST Theatre and the team are working overtime to get everything ready. (See also – “Featured Show: Kitten in Heels marks 15 years of adult pantomime”.) Producer Paul L Martin quizzes the show’s excited stage manager Anna DeFreitas about the joys and …
FEATURED SHOW: Kitten in Heels marks 15 years of adult pantomime
Celebrate 15 years of strictly adult fun with the hilarious cast of the latest Excess All Areas’ new pantomime, Kitten in Heels, populated by some of cabaret’s finest performers offering an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza of silly.
THE EMPEROR JONES – Lost Theatre
Whilst visiting a Caribbean island about 100 years ago, Brutus Jones, an African American train driver, some how ends up emperor of the island’s native tribe. His reign is brutal, so Jones knows it will eventually end. Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 The Emperor Jones begins with Jones’ initially relaxed attempt at escape from the uprising citizens, and inevitable guilty descent into the madness of a Shakespearian villain. The script is entirely spoken by Jones, barring the first and last scenes, with his madness peppered with ghosts that won’t let him rest in the darkness of the island’s woods.
All by myself: Solo theatre at the Face to Face Festival
Four of the nine Festival Highlights shows I worked on in August were solo pieces. And over the years of visiting the Edinburgh Fringe, I estimate that at least 60% of all those shows I’ve seen there have been solos – and that’s not including any stand-up. Personally, I love a good solo piece. If […]