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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Playwright Alex Dennison is a man on a mission. The woman he loved and planned to marry, actress Monica Welles, was found dead ten stories below her balcony a year ago, within a few hours after her opening night as the lead in his latest play. Was this an unfortunate and sorry suicide? Case closed. Or not? Dennison hasn’t let go of the idea she was murdered. But what lengths will he go to in order to prove it?
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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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Mr Timothy X Attack takes us to an imagined future (what other sort is there indeed?) Humankind seems to have made it’s way to the far flung corners of the galaxy, which intrepid adventures have necessitated the provision of some kind of beacon or lighthouse for the better exploitation of safe galactic interchange . . .
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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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This year, thanks to the support of the Spielman Trust, the BOVTS was able to present its Graduating Showcase in a proper theatre setting, and Principal Paul Rummer was delighted to see that St George’s was packed out for the occasion. The BOVTS is in its seventieth year, and in that time it has accumulated an enormously impressive list of past students . . .
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