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Chit chat - In the dark
The curse of the Scottish Play strikes again.
Chit chat - Cold feet
Meanwhile, Tabard was amused to read of similarly mysterious goings on at another playhouse.
Chit chat - Eurovision to behold
But, if those are a little strange, frankly they’re not a patch on Tabard’s final tit-bit for the week.
Radio review - drama
Oh, for comic timing. Not that blissful alchemical process by which some actors use intuition, rhythm and stardust to rib-tickling effect. I’m referring here to the good luck of all involved in a radio comedy drama to tap into a zeitgeist which hasn’t vanished down the plug hole by the time it goes to air.
TV review
Hats off to any drama that starts with the death of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and climaxes with a bloodbath in a gay sauna, even if everything that occurs in between is completely bonkers.
Chit chat - Naked ambition
Meanwhile, down at the Royal Opera House, there are truly sensational goings on. Staff and performers there have got together to pose for a nudie calendar in order to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Chit chat - A right stuff up
While we’re on the subject of Italians - Tabard was a little shocked this week to hear Silvio Berlusconi describe Barack Obama as “young, handsome and tanned”.
Chit chat - A word to the wise
Tabard was pleased to find out this week that reports of Sir Norman Wisdom’s death have been grossly exaggerated. Apparently, there was a call to The Stage’s news hounds last week asking if they had heard about the fact that the legendary comedian had died. They admitted that they hadn’t, but would look into it.
Radio review - light programme
Apart from an unhappy childhood, the other spur to success as an entertainer is to have, as Little Richard did, 11 siblings.
TV review
“I got spat at last week. Well, you don’t expect it in Chatham, that’s Margate behaviour.”
Chit chat - Bearing gifts
Everyone’s favourite puppet got to meet his older self this week, when Richard Cadell - the owner of the current incarnation of Sooty - took his furry little friend to an auction in Derby, where he successfully bid for one of the bears from the original series.
Chit chat - Top trivia
And, from final stands to first stands, Tabard would like to congratulate The Stage’s resident quiz master Graham Aveling on his debut appearance at the Borders store in Brighton, where he hosted the inaugural Stage Theatre Quiz.
Chit chat - Winter warmer
From bears on hands to racoons on heads, Tabard expects delegates at the forthcoming TMA Winter Conference to be turning up in their finest coonskin hats.
Radio review
I’ve felt queasy several times recently when listening to the radio and I wasn’t even tuned into Radio 2 at the time. Oddly though, the play which featured an amputated, cancer-ravaged head bobbing around in a specimen jar - a fate which some commentators would have visited upon Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross - left me feeling uplifted.
TV review
E4 served up some serious Halloween wish fulfilment by sending an army of rabid zombies off to the Big Brother House, where they feasted on the show’s bovine audience, production team, housemates real and fictional, and even presenter Davina McCall.
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Backstage
- Rock royalty
- A 48-way Kinesys automation system with Vector control is being used on the…
- Spot on
- Among the new products featured at the recent LDI 2008 trade show in America…
- Good foundations
- The International Make-Up Artist Trade Show 2009 takes place at Alexandra…
- Lighting up Leeds Academy
- Avolites lighting has been chosen by Angus Chinn, from Bristol-based Utopium,…
- Global success
- XL Video is supplying a projection system, cameras, PPU, Catalyst and…
Obituaries
- Obituaries round-up
- Veteran actor Peter Bartlett was a stalwart of the BBC Radio Drama…
- David Lloyd Meredith
- David Lloyd Meredith had a distinguished stage career, notably as a key…
- John Ringham
- Character actor John Ringham appeared in more than 100 television dramas and…
- Peter Gordeno
- Dancer and choreographer Peter Gordeno was one of the most popular figures in…
- Ian Collier
- Actor Ian Collier had a long career in television and was well known for his…
Letters
- Inspiring diversity
- Mr Topher Campbell’s letter (
- The Blackpool factor
- Why are The X Factor panellists Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh often derogatory…
- Good parts
- I see that Harry Venning, in
- Get it straight
- Having seen DV8’s production, To Be Straight With You (
- Ross is gross
- I would like to pick up on an adjective used by Ben Dowell in his piece about…
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