Terry Eastham

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Theatre503 has unveiled a new play in its Rapid Write Response programme in the form of Niall McCarthy’s debut show Derry Boys, which I went along to see recently. The story follows the lives of two Northern Irish lads from Derry/Londonderry, Mick (Matthew Blaney) and Paddy (Eoin Sweeney), over a twenty-year period.

2 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Last night I was invited along to the world premiere of Nancy Netherwood’s play Radiant Boy: A Haunting at Southwark Playhouse Borough. College Student Russell (Stuart Thompson) has a problem, and like many a young man before him, this means his thoughts have turned to home. So, he has left his London college and returned to the North East and the warm(ish) embrace of his mother, Maud (Wendy Nottingham). Russell’s problem is psychological.

2 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

If you have never been to a boarding school, then you probably have no real idea of what life in one is like apart from snippets in ‘The Crown’ and the Harry Potter films. But life as a pupil in an all boys boarding school can be tough, especially if the pupil in question happens to be gay. If you would like to see a first-rate example of this then pop along to the Waterloo East Theatre which is showing Ned Blackburn’s one act play An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo.

3 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Up to Camden for a new show at the Etcetera Theatre. The play is Sarah O’dell’s Love You More. Matilda Burton (Sarah O’dell) is a woman with the perfect career, hosting her own show interviewing celebrities over a bag of chocolates. She loves this and today is a really special show as she is interviewing her teenage obsession, the singer Henry Steel (Dan Nash). Trying to stay professional – while inwardly probably giggling like a schoolgirl – Matilda starts to bond with ‘H’ as he likes to be called.

3 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Terry Eastham

Never has a piece of art attracted more interest than a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. People stand in line for hours to catch a glimpse of it. Songs have been written about it. Learned professors have spent centuries trying to analyse the subject’s enigmatic smile and conspiracy theorists make up new and imaginative stories about the ‘true’ picture and its meaning. It’s even been a major storyline in the original series of Dr Who.