Festive and quite fun
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Review: The Red Side of the Moon, The Iris Theatre
A very pleasant evening’s entertainment
Read More »Interview: Tanya Bridgeman on Shoes To Fill
Tanya Bridgeman tells us about her play Shoes To Fill
Read More »Haymarket, The Actor’s Church Covent Garden – Review
Pros: The performance of Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong. Cons: Uncomfortable benches resulted in noisy fidgeting which made it difficult to hear. This Folk musical tells the story of the Haymarket Affair, an incident at a gathering of striking workers in May 1886, at Haymarket Square, Chicago, USA. What started as a peaceful rally to support strikers demanding an eight hour day, ended up with a number of police and strikers being killed when a bomb was thrown into the police line. The police, in ...
Read More »The Three Musketeers, St Paul’s Church Covent Garden – Review
Pros: The characters, the cast, the venue… do I need to go on? Cons: There are no loos on site, so don’t overdo it on the interval drinks! Iris Theatre’s shows at Saint Paul’s Church in Covent Garden, also affectionately known as the Actor’s Church, are one of those fixtures of the summer theatre calendar. After a foray into darker realms last year with Macbeth, the company is back on familiar, family-friendly ground with The Three Musketeers. This adaptation by ...
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