So this is getting ridiculous and I'm going to start at the beginning of my missing reviews and at least try and write some kind of after the fact memories before I entirely forget what I've seen this year :-P

Back in June, on my birthday in fact, I went to see High Society at the Old Vic starring (amongst others) the ever fabulous Jamie Parker ( Read more... )

Earlier this week I was poking around old LJ entries (sometimes I like to look at entries from "this day" going back through the years) and ended up with a whole bunch of feelings about how long I'd know people and how long ago things were but also I had a minor panic attack because in several entries I talk about Christmas preparations like asking ( Read more... )

This week has mostly involved penises and Dora the Explorer and no I'm not joking and yes those are both work things at the moment. My life is strange ( Read more... )

So 2013 in theatre terms was another VERY good year. I finally saw the last of Shakespeare's plays (from the First Folio) so that's a challenge very satisfactorily completed and I also managed a pretty good balance of plays and musicals.

The grand total for 2013 was 58 pieces of theatre and another 10 things in theatre type buildings (ie. concerts ( Read more... )

Well technically tonight is my first theatrical thing of 2014 (Fascinating Aida at the Queen Elizabeth Hall) so I really ought to write up the last few 2013 reviews but I think they're going to have to be properly short and maybe added to later because some of them I feel really bad for not writing up properly- especially this first one:

( The Scottsbro Boys @ Young Vic )

I was going to continue my theatre reviews in the same way I have been- the longest ago and the most recent in one post- but then I realised if I don't write about HMS Pinafore soon I will have had all three viewings without writing anything down so... well yes. Here goes.

( HMS Pinafore @ Union Theatre #1 )

[deletes whiny rambling]

I'm still missing a few reviews one because it's too hard to put into words, another because... well it's Taming of the Shrew and the less I think about it the better :-P but the third is Pirates of Penzance and I need to cheer myself up right now so while thile I'm burning various things to CD...

( Pirates of Penzance @ Hackney Empire )

Having been annoyed recently that some productions I KNOW I really enjoyed have almost entirely escaped my memory (the RSC History Cycle, or more specifically the Henry IVs) I suppose I ought to be better at keeping up with this year's reviews ( Read more... )

I realise that generally my reviews aren't so much reviews as enthusiastic burbling but I'm rather afraid this one may be even less coherent than usual. I tried writing it earlier this week and then got distracted at the pretty memories and wrote myself round in a circle and had to go away and look at pictures of the Iolanthe cast... *coughs ( Read more... )

I have got SO ridiculously behind on reviews :-( Two years of actually keeping up more or less and 2012 is maybe going to defeat me... though I will do my best to go back and write at least a couple of sentences about the various things I've seen at some point (which seems to be a phrase I'm using at the moment, "at some point ( Read more... )