★★★☆☆ I suppose you could say the stage version of Anita and Me was a long time coming. It is more than twenty years since Meera Syal’s debut novel first appeared and fifteen years since the film version. Tanika Gupta’s adaptation is now on tour after premiering at Birmingham Rep, before a run at Stratford East, a couple of years ago.
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Mark Goucher has been a successful West End producer for twenty years. He has just been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, combining it with his work in London. He spoke to StageTalk Magazine shortly before taking up his new job . . .
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Extracurricular is a feature which enables us to include items that are perhaps outside our normal remit . . . StageTalk Magazine has always been an enthusiastic devotee of contemporary dance. In the UK we are well served with several outstanding companies but one of the vanguards of modern dance was, perhaps surprisingly, Dutch.
Read More★★★★☆ There was an époque, about the same time as the Beatles were flexing their muscles, when adult entertainment was often classy and très sophistiqué . . . .
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★★★★☆ Two actors, a spectre, a handful of characters, a few bits of saggy curtains, an old theatrical skip, a bentwood chair, a clothes rail and a lot of dust – but those are not the important ingredients. The most important ingredient, and the one we supply ourselves, is imagination.
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