StageTalk Magazine has reached a milestone – its total number of hits is now in excess of 200,000. In the past couple of years our fifteen reviewers have reviewed about 750 shows in over twenty venues ranging from the magnificent Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford Upon Avon to a cramped bookshop in Oxford, from the gilded opulence of Frank Matcham auditoriums to tiny rooms above pubs.
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Nick Wilkes’ latest offering has echoes of Harold Pinter and Joe Orton. The play concerns two cousins, Sam, a simple but decent sort of chap and Bill, best described as a miserable old git. They scrape a living by, among other things, digging graves in the village church-yard and the action takes place in their chilly hut in the graveyard.
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While not perhaps making a comeback at least there are those who are making a worthy attempt to keep the flag (and the feathers) flying for burlesque. Missy Malone is one . . .
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The second evening of Corin Hayes’ Buzz, Buzz, Buzz season this year featured near folk legend, Wizz Jones. Wizz has been around for more than fifty years and was part of the Les Cousins, Bunjies and Scots Hoose circuit along with Bert Jansch, John Renbourne, Al Stewart and all the rest . . .
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There’s nothing quite like the smell of freshly trodden grass mingling with pungent diesel fumes to embody a night out at a fun-fair or circus. I remember the good old days when there were three or four giant circuses doing the rounds in England. What I remember best, and what was almost the most exciting, were the roaring lions and tigers leaping through hoops and the troops of huge lumbering elephants trundling around the ring.
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