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  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – The Gillian Lynne Theatre

    ★★★★☆ This was not a planned viewing for me (although I did want to see it) but a last minute purchase because the show I was in London to see got cancelled. I have loved the book since I was a child and I grew up on the 1979 animated version. The open stage as…

  • Musical Con – a UK first!

    Conventions are hardly new – my husband and son went to Mine Con in 2015 when it was in London – and Comic Con is a well established event all over the world. In 2016 Broadway Con debuted in New York but until this weekend we had not had a convention for musical fans in…

  • Dear Evan Hansen: the final night – Noël Coward Theatre

    This was not a new show for us. This was in fact the fourth time we had seen this – including the reopening performance after covid on 26th October 2021. It is a particular favourite of my son’s and when we heard it was closing we immediately booked – albeit cheap tickets on the back…

  • The Crucible – The National Theatre

    ★★★★☆ This play is a personal favourite of mine. When I was a teenager I became obsessed with the history of the Salem Witch Trials and I played Mercy in a production of The Crucible at uni. But I until now I had not actually seen it. This has been a huge success for the National with…

  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle – The Rose Theatre, Kingston

    ★★★★★ A departure from our normal family theatre trips, but with a daughter studying Brecht as one of the practitioners for her GCSE and the casting of Carrie Hope Fletcher, this was a no brainer. I have not really thought much about Brecht since university where I remember studying Mother Courage and her Children(and playing Mother).…

  • The Color Purple – Royal and Derngate, Northampton

    ★★★★☆ The 2004 Broadway production of The Color Purpleis currently touring the UK after a 2019 run at The Curve in Leicester, and I checked it out at The Royal and Derngate in Northampton. I remember reading the book as a teen, and seeing the movie as well so I was interested to see how this…