Pam Ford: Happy in Your Skin Too – 3***

This show is actually an update of Ford’s previous show “Happy in Your Skin”, but with progress between then and now. It stands alone perfectly well.

At the very start, Ford gets the audience to put pieces of paper in … Read More

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical – 5*****

It’s such a simple premise – take suggestions from the audience and improvise a musical around them. The Showstopper team make this look so ridiculously easy you forget they and the band are making up everything, including the set, on … Read More

Circle Line – 3***

A straightforward piece about different characters stuck on a broken down tube train. Most of the usual stereotypes are here and in the main we get one song per character with a little interaction between each of them. It was … Read More

Riptide: The Slasher Musical – 4****

A fabulous, cheesy, bloody, gory teen slasher musical with great music, clever lyrics and comedy delights – what more could you ask for?

All of the stereotypes are here from the dumb blonde who isn’t to the local hillbillies. The … Read More

Coping – 4****

This was a very good piece about various people coping with relationship issues, separation, loss and the like. The music was very nice with good singing and excellent diction and the ensemble moments had beautifully balanced harmonies which sounded great … Read More

Kava Girls – 1*

This is a very poorly-written piece about three people looking for their big break in theatre, working as understudies. Most of the singing is very low for the women and there is quite a lot of pitchy singing in general, … Read More

Caledonian Folk and Blues at the Guildford 20th Year – 4****

Yep, that is right it has been twenty years since this event was first staged and yet if the night I attended is anything to go by it is as popular as ever.

Running for almost 4 hours this is … Read More

Flight of the Lawnchair Man – 3***

This was the delightful and very colourful tale of a man stuck in a rut who just wanted to follow his own dreams and fly, with only his girlfriend to support him. Apparently based on a true story (which seems … Read More

Flamenco for Kids – 4****

Getting children from age four to fourteen to do the same thing can seem like herding cats. Yet if that’s the case, guitarist Ricardo Garcia and dancer Frederic Gomez, aided by costume lady Julie Gunn, rounded up twenty or so … Read More

Hate ‘n’ Live – 2**

The concept of this show is just great. Comedians ranting about the stuff they hate. As opinionated creatures, this could be brilliant, but as a partly improvised show, this obviously depends on the wit, and writing speed of the performers, … Read More