I must confess that at the end of a busy workday I watch Discovering Film on Sky Arts. Meanwhile our 4-year-old is watching a thing we call “Rubbish Anna and Elsa.” It consists of videos of small Barbie-like dolls living a very materialistic lifestyle. The dolls are manipulated by people and given voices and of […]
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We took our 4-year-old to the circus recently. It had changed a lot since I last went. In my day it was mainly about animals – lions, tigers, elephants, performing seals and dogs, trapeze acts and of course – clowns. I also remember one year a man was fired out of a cannon up and […]
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I met Dean Mark an ex-member of a youth theatre I ran. He has been a professional session musician for many years. He has toured with Lemar, Roy Ayers, Craig David, Lulu and many more. We talked about what makes a great performer. Obviously, you must have to have a technique and that means working […]
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The musical Pippin was first produced on Broadway in 1972. It belongs to a group of musicals like Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair that explore questions about our lives. This production, at the small Charing Cross Theatre, had a cast of eight people and felt like a throwback to the 1970s with a set […]
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Many years ago, I sang in a choir. It was the choir that went with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. We were excited one day when they told us at rehearsal that we were going to sing The Dream of Gerontius with the orchestra at the Malvern Festival and Prince Charles would be in […]
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