Terry Eastham

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Off to the Arcola Theatre we go for a new take on Simon Stephens’ 2015 play Heisenberg. Alex (Jenny Galloway) is sitting minding her business in Paddington Station when suddenly a woman comes up to her and plants a kiss on the back of her neck. Slightly non-plussed by this, as you would be, Alex glares at the woman in a very British way. Georgie (Faline England), for that is her name, introduces herself and sort of apologises for her action.

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Is there any subject that should be taboo? Stopping it from being turned into a musical theatre production? If I’m honest, then I would probably have said, “Yes, there are red lines on subjects I feel appropriate for the MT treatment”. But why? Is it just the possibility of a show jumping over the line from daring to challenge sensitive orthodoxies to being tacky and tasteless?

3 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Having children is one of the greatest things couples can do, or so they say. However, amongst all the happy times of parenthood, people often forget how much having a child changes them, particularly if you are a stay-at-home parent and your child is not a textbook baby with good sleep and eating patterns etc. Add to this the chaotic and dangerous world outside, and sometimes a parent just wants someone to make everything better and safe for them and their offspring.

1 month ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Sometimes you see a show and know within the first few minutes it is going to be a hit. So, it was last night when I went to the Menier Chocolate Factory for the opening of Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors. Estate Agent Jonathan Harker (Charlie Stemp) is off to meet a new and very mysterious client. As he travels through the mountains of Transylvania, timid worrier Jonathan is alarmed to hear his driver telling tales of man-eating wolves and the fact that nobody that goes into this area ever comes out.

1 month ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

I doubt if many of you reading this review will remember the height of the Cold War. A period when it felt that there was a constant threat of invasion, or possibly nuclear annihilation, by the people of the Soviet Union and the great USSR. I have memories of those times both as a member of the armed forces and as child growing up in the 1970s although, apart from some well-publicised spying cases, it wasn’t that big a deal for us in the UK.