Unchain the Melodies

The show started seven minutes late and the opening music had to compete with an announcement concerning switching off mobile phones and other such public information. If that wasn’t enough the production has had difficulties from the start. The first two preview performances…

An Unlikely Ensemble

When you see the set for Ladykillers you can be excused for thinking that little tipple of wine you had at lunchtime just tipped you over into a world where your vision had become slightly out of line with reality. Almost everything in your…

Love or Money, Make or Break

Dedicated to Jess

‘Money you’ve made me some very fast friends…

PRIVATE VIEWING       National Museum of Art         14 March 2013

A Fine Palette with a Hint of Curry

An eclectic mix of committed Times and Sunday Times readers gathered in the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre of the National Museum of Wales at the start of a private viewing of the National Museum of Art. Art is all about taste and this was clearly in evidence as the host for the evening was at pains to stress that the exhibits she had chosen to illustrate her…

Soul Sister                         New Theatre, Cardiff    18 March 2013

Wokoma is Simply the Best

It was in 1956, at the age of 16, when Anna Mae Bullock auditioned for Ike Turner, that he realised her potential and by the 1960s Ike’s band became the Ike and Tina Turner Revue with Tina taking centre stage. Soul Sister is the story of how they came together, charting their relationship and their successes and…