DIVERSITY.
Graham Wyles is an actor, writer and StageTalk Magazine reviewer based in Bristol. In his piece he talks about diversity in the theatre and how it has changed and developed over recent years.
The death has been announced of Michael Napier Brown the actor, director, and playwright who was the chief executive and artistic director of the Royal Theatre in Northampton for over 20 years after having started his directorial career in Cheltenham. . . he decided to become a director and wrote to Malcolm Farquhar who was artistic director at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham . . .
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The Everyman is billed as “Gloucestershire’s Theatre” and, with its in-house productions, is often very conscious of that. Although Beatrix Potter is usually associated with the Lake District, it was while she was visiting the West Country county that she penned one of her most famous, and she claimed her favourite, story. The theatre’s creative director, Paul Milton, has adapted The Tailor of Gloucester for the stage and has made not a bad job of it.
Read MoreThere are inevitably a lot of pieces on the First World War around at the moment and Second Soprano, arriving just a few days after the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, is the latest . . . Second Soprano was written by Martha Shrimpton and Ellie Routledge and performed by Ms Shrimpton and Olivia Hirst. With the help of cloth caps, steel helmets and army greatcoats the pair deftly portray a number of characters in what was an enjoyable show by two engaging and accomplished performers.
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We all love a conspiracy theory and Richard Derrington’s one-man-show is fascinating stuff, beautifully written and impeccably presented . . . in My Kingdom for a Horse there is never a dull moment as we are swept through the, albeit imaginary, pages of some of England’s bloodiest history.
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