Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre ~ review
When actress Noel Streatfield put pen to paper to write her seminal children’s book Ballet Shoes, she did so at the most exciting time for the evolution of national Ballet in England, and it is [...]
Voila! Theatre Festival ~ ‘Sharing is Caring’
It’s nice to be invited to work by an emerging company in one of those of festivals that is teeming with new talent – it reminds me that we are all part of the same eco-system and experience [...]
Back to ‘Live’ in London – from oratory in a dark theatre to dance with the outdoors and each other…A review of: Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre, En Route by PROTEIN and From Greenwich with Love by Rendez-Vous Dance.
Under Milk Wood… July 2021.’ It is the tail-end of the lockdown everyone assumes is our last and theatres that can afford it have opened. Seeing Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre [...]
Review: Peter Gynt, National Theatre, August 2019
Peter Gynt – National Theatre, Aug’ 19’. Review by Tamsin Flower Script by David Hare Direction by Jonathan Kent Everyone loves seducers and sociopaths…in fiction. The [...]
Poems on Performance – Circus poem 4. Fellini
Circus poem 4: Fellini Fellini, my tongue unfurls ‘Fellini’ salivating films watched at an impressionable age; Your Women ring in my ears like coiffured charms to guide, through black and [...]
Dear Accidental Director…
Dear Accidental Director, If like me, directing emerged from you unexpectedly like the late-twenties flowering of a second head, you may not fit the profile usually associated with [...]