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REVIEW: Grit of Life, Widgeon Theatre Boat (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:23 August 2021
Post category:London but not West End Musical Outside London Review
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For anyone who has fond memories of time on a canal boat, not actually being a bargee but borrowing one for a holiday, this show is a must, a celebration of the canals and those who live on them. Grit of Life is narrated by John Knowles, author and director, with Rory McLeod as song writer, on an 84 year old Canal Boat. The Widgeon Theatre Boat can tour its play with music to navigable water ways and you can sit the other side of the towpath.

Rosalind Ford Centre (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: Gin Craze! at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:23 July 2021
Post category:Musical Outside London Review
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This musical is a celebration of feminism, there is a Lesbian romance and everything is seen from the feminine perspective. There are also social comments: we learn that in Southwark in 1736/7, 9000 children died from gin poisoning.

Ian McKellen as Hamlet (Photo: BKL )

REVIEW: Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021) with Ian McKellen

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 July 2021
Post category:Outside London Play Review
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Hamlet the Dane with Ian McKellen "I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul…