Owen Lewis

25 Jan 2023
Madison Violet Theatre Severn Walker Theatre 24:January:2023   There was a busy and anticipatory audience that were awaiting the arrival of Madison Violet. There were newbies like this reviewer and there were older more partisan fans. But new and old alike knew from the first song that Madison Violet were going to share their golden notes and deliver their own brand of Folk/Roots music and no-one...
18 Nov 2022
The Eighties Show Theatre Severn Friday 18th November 2022   Ok, so the Eighties is famous for the decade that killed pop. I will stand by that by saying at the advent of the Nineties, western pop music was vacuous and manipulated by the money men. Well, it could be argued that if you hold that view you only know half the story. Yes, Eighties music was hijacked by the Hit Factory, Waterman, and...
31 Oct 2022
The Sensational Sixties Experience Theatre Severn 29th October 2022 If you are a regular reader of these reviews, you may know I like to look at how the music contextually dove tailed with the era and also see; what was the socio, historical and political backdrop for the music that one is to encounter. Last time one spoke of the Seventies and all the problems that brought to this country.   This...
26 Sep 2022
Mersey Beatles Theatre Severn 25/September/2022 I think the most amazing truth about the Beatles music is the fact that just 18 years after the West and the East met in Berlin to destroy fascism together; The Beatles were riding high at number one with “I wanna hold your hand.” Doesn’t it make you wonder, did the one lead to the other? Would have love been all you need if we had never had the...
26 Jul 2022
Theatre Severn Shrewsbury Castle Three Inch Fools Present The Gunpowder Plot 26th/July/2022 To put a play on in the round can expose theatre companies to all manner of conventions which previously they may not have encountered. After all, in a proscenium arched performance the audience is in one place: In the round, they are everywhere. However, these conventions offered no real challenge to the...
23 Jul 2022
Curtain Call Theatre Company 9 TO 5 The Musical, Walker Theatre Sat 23rd…Sunday 24th  2.30 & 7.30   Started many years ago as the Young Performers Theatre Group, Curtain Call Theatre Company is an amateur group in Shrewsbury. Taking on the bigger shows it seems this company is well resourced and well attended. As for the noise in the audience it was obvious, they had friends throughout the...
27 Jun 2022
Walker Theatre Curtain Call Juniors Present, Matilda The Musical Jr. Monday 27th -Thursday30th     Well here is a story that anyone who had a young child in the Nineteen Nineties couldn’t have possibly missed; the Hollywood blockbuster, Matilda. Starring Danny DeVito as the Wormwood family’s patriarch: Charting their relationship with their sweet and lovable daughter Matilda, It’s a lovely story...
11 Jun 2022
The Bob Dylan Story Walker Theatre Theatre Severn 11. June. 2022   If you were around in the Sixties, maybe even if you weren’t you must be aware of the sense of revolution that was in the air. The Vietnam War was boiling away, grinding the best of American Youth to dust. Martin Luther King was shot and killed, Kennedy suffered the same fate and the air both here and stateside was full of a feel...
26 Apr 2022
May the Twenty Seventh is the date and the venue is The Hive in Shrewsbury. For many years there has been great music played in the Pubs and Clubs and Shrewsbury. Great singers, guitarists and poets. Shrewsbury people may only see them once or twice and sometimes never again. However, it is worth saying the standard of music played is top level and most players in the pubs and clubs of Shrewsbury...
24 Apr 2022
The Amazing Bubble Man, Walker Theatre, 24th April 2022 It was a packed Walker Theatre that welcomed back Louis Pearl A.K.A. The Amazing Bubble Man. One saw immediately why this event was so well attended. He is so good and everyone there knew something special and unusual was going to occur this afternoon; and it did. With a variety of fascinating objects to make bubbles for a full hour and a...
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