What are they gonna do? Sad Café lose their lead singer who passes away prematurely. But the more they sit at home and lick their wounds, the more they realise that they are sitting on a back catalogue which most other bands can’t dream of. So as with all the great bands of yesteryear, they finally bite the bullet and head back out on the road.
Category Archives: Review
A live show?
Who: John Foxx and the Maths
Where: The Cargo, Shoreditch, London
When: 5th September 2012
Is it live or is it Memorex?
What do we have here?
Surprising and delightful things from David Farr and The Tempest
What: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 6th September 2012
It’s awfully quiet
Sorry nothing has been posted here for the last several weeks. I’ve been unwell and hope to get back to this as soon as possible with the rest of the baseball regular season, reviews and other things
Remixed Shakespeare for the hip-hop generation
Or postmodern Shakespeare layered deep in irony. Or some such.
What: Troilus and Cressida
Where: The Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 9th August 2012
Thou shall not choose but go
When: 26th July 2012
Where: Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
What: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
When considering the RSC’s current production of “Twelfth Night”, it is helpful to separate out the plays two strands: the humorous and the romantic.
The Graceless Action of A Heavy Hand
End of year report: Not Measuring up
Where: The Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 20th December 2011
What: Measure for Measure
“What Masques, What Dances Shall We Have, to wear away this long age of three hours?
What: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Where: Stratford-Upon-Avon
When: 4th of August 2011
This is the third play that the Royal Shakespeare Company have performed from the Shakespearean canon since the launch of their new theatre – and to say that I did not approach the grim exterior of that new theatre with much enthusiasm would have been something of an understatement.
Double, double toil and trouble
What: Macbeth
When: 25th May 2011
Where: The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon