Reviews
15 Mar 2023
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Theatre Severn
Tuesday 14th-Saturday 18th March
(Matinees Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, see brochure)
Well isn’t theatre a funny old game …eh? If you have a show with one of the most creative set designs you have ever seen, actor’s like Berlinda Lang (2.4 Children) Pop singer/Actor Paul Nicholas (Just Good Friends) and Tessa Peake-Jones (Raquel in, Only Fools and...
07 Mar 2023
Rocky Horror Show
Theatre Severn
Monday 6th March-Saturday 11th March
(Plus 2 weekend early evening performances)
What one wondered most about going to see the cult stage hit musical, “The Rocky Horror Show,” was, will the dressing up as characters of the show have survived with it into the provinces? One is aware of it being somewhat of a phenomenon in cities; but towns? One needn’t have...
03 Mar 2023
Isuzu don’t sell cars here in the U.K. I’m not entirely sure they sell cars anywhere else either. A quick Google – just for clarity I hasten to add - reveals them to be “a Japanese truck and engine manufacturer, currently producing a selection of commercial and personal vehicles as well as diesel engines for automobiles, industry and boats”. A few of us may remember the Isuzu Trooper...
08 Feb 2023
Wodehouse In Wonderland.
Theatre Severn
February 6th - 8th
Quite often one is faced with paradoxes as reviewer. Great tunes poor lyrics, or great plot badly acted and so on. This show is a paradox in quite a different way. One was presented with an almost perfect Stanislavskian performance from a superbly skilled actor, only to see the slow plotless script bring the whole thing down.
The show...
03 Feb 2023
Just before Christmas last year… Oh, hang on, it was Christmas the year before… I found myself deep in the Brecon Beacons courtesy of Ford’s UK PR team. The Mission was simple: Drive a new Ford Ranger across Sarn Helen’s ancient Roman roads - none of which appear to have been resurfaced in at least 500 years – in the kind of weather only a Welsh winter could throw at us. Snow, sleet, rain,...
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...
06 Jan 2023
Having owned one in the past, I’ve always had a bit of a soft-spot for Skoda’s Fabia. Not only has the Fabia always offered surprising levels of comfort and economy, it’s also always offered a way to into Volkswagen Polo ownership; the reliability, the build quality, the know-how, without commanding the associated VW price tags. I had a 1.4 16 valve petrol Mk1 Fabia in Elegance spec -...
10 Dec 2022
Beauty and The Beast,
Theatre Severn
December 10th to January 8th (See Brochure)
So the fields have turned to concrete and the water into stone. Deeply ensconced in the worst winter we have had for years, Shrewsbury panto goers were warmed by the hilarity and genius of this year’s Pantomime, Beauty and The Beast. It appears laughter is as good as the central heating that we all used to be able...
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...
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