REVIEW: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (LOST Theatre) ★★★★
A Christmas Carrol. As traditional as roast turkey and Christmas Pud but better for your soul and for your waistline. When performed as beautifully as this, this story of regret and redemption is a feast for the eyes, ears and heart. What a great start to the Christmas period. This lovely musical adaptation of Charles […]
REVIEW: MUSICAL OF THE YEAR (Lost Theatre) ★★★★★
Let me say, at the outset, that this is the most entertaining production I have seen in many years. It is original, in a kind of deliberately unoriginal way. It is incredibly funny, fantastically well produced, acted and sung. I loved it from the beginning to the end. Superficially it is about an unsuccessful American […]
Cast announced for the twisted fairytale PRINCESS at LOST Theatre
Stuart Saint’s ground-breaking interdisciplinary Princess, which opens at the LOST Theatre in November, is proud to announce their cast. This new piece is inspired by our twisted relationship with the “princess” – shattering the illusion of happily-ever-afters, banishing the storybook fairytale and finding the feminism in Disney. The cast includes Jennie Dickie (London Olympics Opening […]
PRINCESS: The Good Girls Gone Bad to play at LOST Theatre
In November, revolutionary and critically acclaimed writer/director Stuart Saint brings a ground-breaking interdisciplinary piece of theatre to LOST Theatre inspired by our twisted relationship with the “princess” – shattering the illusion of happily-ever-afters, banishing the storybook fairytale and finding the feminism in Disney. Because the once pristine and weak-willed princess can now be a kick-ass […]
REVIEW: JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA (Lost Theatre)
What do cheating spouses, Jesus, strippers, Satan and tap dancing Ku Klux Klan members all have in common? They are featured in Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee’s musical Jerry Springer: The Opera. Ten years since gracing the National Theatre with it’s colourful profanity and controversial characters, the Olivier Award Winning Show has returned for one […]
Macbeth – Lost Theatre
Claiming to strip the story back to the text, David Shopland’s Macbeth also asks us to find the humanity within each character. Witches, birth-strangled babes and prophecies aside, Shakespeare’s Scottish play is about ambition, arrogance and betrayal as the characters stop at nothing to further their own situation. The play is the playground of the […]