DARREN HAYMAN at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham
It’s always nice to discover a performer for the first time. I had never heard of Darren Hayman...
Read MorePosted by Michael Hasted | 12 Jul 2014
It’s always nice to discover a performer for the first time. I had never heard of Darren Hayman...
Read MorePosted by Michael Hasted | 2 Jul 2014
When it first appeared in 1958 A Taste of Honey was a sensation. Shelagh Delaney was hailed as a wunderkind and the Zeitgeist was perfectly captured. The play arrived hot on the heels of the Look Back in Anger and was instrumental in the kitchen-sink achieving a place in history.
Read MorePosted by Michael Hasted | 25 Jun 2014
Tweedy the Clown, while not yet perhaps a national treasure, is certainly rapidly becoming a...
Read MorePosted by Michael Hasted | 25 Jun 2014
Under Milk Wood is a piece I am particularly fond of and I have seen many productions. The fact that it was written as a radio play is its strength and its weakness. How do you present thirty-odd characters in dozens of different locations on stage? How do you portray a sleepy Welsh village and the myriad souls (some literally) who live there? As we all know, in radio drama the scenery and costumes are always excellent because we conjure them up in our imagination and that is the key to a stage production – keep it simple and conjure up Llareggub in the mind’s eye.
Read MorePosted by Michael Hasted | 20 Jun 2014
“Very simply, it is the story of the walk told by its perpetrator Paul. It recalls his experiences, both real and imagined, and throws in a lot of interesting facts to keep the pot boiling…I like a bit of history and I like good theatre and Beneath the Albion Sky delivered both in an entertaining and informative way…it was really good stuff which I enjoyed a lot.”
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