Category: Theatre
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Last week, just after (re-)opening night, I got to see Christian Slater reprise his role in the stage adaptation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. To many people, it’s hard to get beyond Jack Nicholson’s screen version of it from 1978. That’s not such a great problem for me, as it’s simply many years…
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Ducktastic
So where do we begin with Ducktastic? It’s a new play written by the guys who wrote The Play What I Wrote about Morecombe and Wise. It revolves around someone who was previously “the biggest breakfast time magician on the Vegas strip” and who performs magic with a duck flavour (not in the Chinese “duck”…
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Heroes
It’s ages since I last went to the theatre, and that would have almost certainly been a freebie from my friend Simon who works for a theatre marketing company. Yesterday, I read an interview with Richard Griffith in The Observer. He’s in a new play called Heroes, a translation by Tom Stoppard of a French…