"If you're not in tears by the end, it's not a good performance," my friend said when I told her I was going to see Birdsong at Nuffield Southampton Theatres this week. As I packed extra tissues into my bag before I left for the show, I hoped I would need them all.
It is a special moment, to see the infamous, tragic story of the Titanic retold and commemorated on stage in the very city where it started it's first and final fateful voyage.
We are thrown into the hot and heady streets of present-day New Orleans; you can practically smell the hot roads, sweat, and testosterone as you are swept through the summer months by a fiercely talented cast as the story unfolds, like clothes peeled from skin, exposing vulnerability and naked flesh.
What should you expect from your first opera experience? Sex, comedy and opulence, apparently! I review Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Mayflower Theatre, and dispel some myths about this classic style of theatre.
A Blitz-bruised London becomes a playground for the rebellious and fierce in Teddy – the latest musical to grace the stage at Nuffield Southampton Theatre's Campus venue.
Miss Saigon takes Southampton by storm on its UK tour, bringing the tragedy of the Vietnam War to life on stage in a tale of love and loss.
"I spent my first ever evening at NST City enchanted, transfixed and swept up in a story and a legacy that will stay with me for an incredibly long time.
It's pantomime season! On no it isn't...oh yes it is! I got into the festive spirit at the Mayflower Theatre for this year's panto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Was it a fairy tale, or did it fall...short?
Imagine watching a spectacular London show from outside the capital, ten minutes from the office, with wine in hand and cheaper ticket prices; that's what National Theatre Live screenings are all about. Find out what happened when I watched Follies at The Point in Eastleigh.
November is the best month of them all; though we're already in December, I'm looking back at another eventful month, and reviewing my favourite things.
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