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Chit chat: Creative writing continued
Perhaps the Lib Dems should have got Amanda to inject some poetry into their recent report on the future of the arts - The Power of Creativity.
Chit chat: Getting hot under the collar about ice show
Tabard was delighted to see that Blackpool long-runner Hot Ice will be returning to the Pleasure Beach this year. However, we were a little confused by director Amanda Thompson’s description of the revamped show.
Radio - Drama
The Seagull R3, Sunday, January 31
TV review
Mrs Mandela BBC2, Sunday, January 31, 11.50pm
Charges challenged
Few revenue-generating activities in London have grown at such a rate as Theatreland’s box office which, The Stage revealed, topped £0.5 billion during the last year.
We need a classier system to harness real talent
In an article originally published in our November 26, 2009 print issue, Director of the National Council for Drama Training Hilary Strong discusses the changes that need to be made in order for a wider variety of youngsters to consider a career in theatre
Chit chat - Spirited performance
Meanwhile, in Germany, there have been some strange goings-on in theatre. Frankfurt’s Schauspielhaus faced a complete and utter breakdown of a performance when the actors decided to substitute vodka for water in a production of Moscow to the End of the Line. Predictably, everything went completely haywire, with one performer falling off the stage and another being rushed to hospital to have his stomach pumped.
Chit chat - A Barrow-load of votes
Tabard was intrigued to see the results of the reader’s version of the Stage 100 - this publication’s annual power list of the great and the good in the theatre industry.
Radio - Light programme
Occasionally a specific season of programmes brings with it a timely reminder of how awesome a medium radio can be, and Radios 3, 4 and 7’s marking of the 150th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birth has been such an occasion. In addition to several dramatisations of his plays and short stories on offer, there has also been an opportunity to hear from contemporary theatre practitioners who have been greatly influenced by his work.
TV review
Not that Del Boy would have even been troubled by the absence of quality control, but Only Fools and Horses continued several series past its sell-by date and ended up a pale, and stale, imitation of its once great self. Writer John Sullivan then flogged the dead horse even further by giving the least interesting supporting character, Boycie, an ill-judged and mirth free spin-off, The Green, Green Grass.
Viva Las Vegas?
Las Vegas, the largest theatre city after London and New York, has been hit hard by the recession, with falling audiences and pressure to offer deals and discounts. But the tide seems to be turning - business is coming back and Cirque du Soleil has just opened a $50 million show in a new theatre. Alistair Smith reports on the downturn’s impact and the latest developments
Roger Rees: The wait is over
After an absence of more than a quarter of a century, Roger Rees is returning to the London stage opposite Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot. He talks to Nick Smurthwaite about life in the US, how his painting career is still on hold and why he’s intent on bringing Shakespeare to the masses
Chit chat: An enterprising act in SE1
Thanks to SE1’s Twitter service for this next chit chat - one of the most enterprising uses of a planning response Tabard has ever had the pleasure of seeing.
Chit chat: On a wing and a prayer
Help can come from the most unexpected of places.
TV review
Any film that starts with the caption: “Gwent Police, University of Wales, Newport and Tredegar Comprehensive School presents…” is bound to be a little different. And so it proves with Only Stwpd Cowz Txt N Drive, a road safety film with aspirations towards genuine drama, hence its elevation from YouTube, where it has proved something of a phenomenon, to the schedules of BBC3.
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Backstage
- Up Nexo
- Nexo, the Paris-based sound reinforcement loudspeaker manufacturer, is…
- Czech mates
- Czech Republic-based moving-light manufacturer Robe has made a series of new…
- Making history
- London-based drape specialist Cover It Up has been appointed as a ‘preferred…
- Brand identity
- Adlib Audio states that its Richy Nicholson recently used his mixing talents…
- Staging talks
- The first National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural Skills annual…
Obituaries
- Tony Fayne
- Tony Fayne, who for 20 years travelled the world as straight man to Norman…
- Tony Clarke
- Tony Clarke, one of music’s pioneering producers of the late sixties and…
- Ali Hassani
- Ali Hassani, who died on January 16 at the age of 83, in Epsom, Surrey, was…
- Timothy Bateson
- Timothy Bateson’s place in theatre history was sealed in 1955 when he played…
- Gloria Nord
- Gloria Nord was a leading lady of the ice show world in Britain during the…
Letters
- An education in etiquette
- I was totally in agreement with Susan Elkin’s article Child’s Play (The…
- Protect the professionals
- It will be of little use for Tom Laughton to look to Equity to get something…
- A long road for walk-ons
- Tom Laughton (Protect professional opportunities, Letters, January 21, page…
- Crossing the lion
- How very disappointing to read in this week’s Stage that a prestigious Gold…
- A savage attack
- How dare my comedy hero Arthur Smith suggest in his column of January 28…
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