Reviews
Review: The Ladykillers at Southampton Mayflower
Five crooks take over an old ladies wonky house with a plan to commit the ultimate crime – getting rich via the perfect robbery near to King Cross railway station where the old lady lives. Eventually, the interfering (and morally high) Mrs Wilberforce (Michelle Dotrice) finds out and the criminals soon realise there is only [...]
review: American Idiot The Musical at Southampton Mayflower Theatre
Punk rock in a musical? It’ll never work, will it? A crowd of mostly Green Day fans mingled with the odd ‘regular theatre goer’, filling almost every seat at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre for the European première of the smash hit musical that took Broadway by storm. A musical with a full American cast – so I went [...]
review: Larmer Tree Festival 2012
Obviously this also leads to mixed experiences as the nice, friendly middle class couple who are only too willing to share a glass of wine or two before they head out to see Jools on Wednesday get quickly replaced by hordes of excitable posh girls and their oh so floppy haired mates jabbering on about Tim Minchin and Paloma Faith, who in turn are replaced by a much more, um, relaxed collection of dreadlocked folk here to see the Levellers on Friday. There is certainly a more aromatic aroma to the campsite as the day goes on.
review: Southsea Food Festival
For one weekend only, Southsea served up a mouth-watering prelude to the Olympic torch’s passage through Portsmouth with the Southsea Food Festival- a gastronomic and cultural treat. From local produce (Mr Whitehead’s Cider Company and its wares come particularly recommended, as does a visit to your local monthly farmers market to sample the likes of [...]
review: Avenue Q at The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Once you’ve seen puppets singing songs called If You Were Gay, Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist and The Internet’s For Porn you’ll probably never look at Sooty and Sweet in the same way again. Avenue Q opened at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre last night, it’s second stint in 18 months, and despite the child-friendly looking posters [...]
review: Dirty Dancing at Southampton Mayflower Theatre
The national tour of smash-hit musical Dirty Dancing waltzed into Southampton this week and was greeted by a packed Mayflower Theatre. Hoards of excited women went silent as Baby delivered the infamous opening lines: “It was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me Baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind. It was [...]
review: Calendar Girls at Southampton Mayflower Theatre
Whether you’ve seen the film or not, everybody knows the Calendar Girls story: a group of extraordinary women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire Women’s Institute (WI) group, persuade one another to pose for a charity calendar to raise money for cancer research. Lynda Bellingham, leads the all-star cast as Chris, best friend to widow [...]
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