Don’t Look Up: or, just don’t watch.
Don’t Look Up is the most recent hit from Netflix and is the newest film from Adam McKay (The Big Short, Anchorman) also having written, produced and directed the sci-fi comedy. IMDb describes the film to be “Two low-level astronomers [must] go on a giant media tour...
F1 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix – Live Blog Coverage
It all comes down to this. F1 has arrived at Abu Dhabi for the final race of the season, and for the second time in Formula One history, the championship leaders have arrived at the final race on equal points. Max Verstappen will start today’s race from pole...
Dolly Parton’s Hit Musical ‘9 To 5’ brings girl power and attitude to Plymouth
Inspired by the 1980 movie of the same title, ‘9 to 5’ is a pure girl power musical that thrilled audiences during its West End run before the pain in the neck that is covid came along and cut the London run and the previous UK Tour short. But now its back and hitting...
Goodbye Great British Bake off 2021
Sadly, we’ve reached the final of the Great British Bake Off 2021 Can it be so? Surely this year’s Great British Bake Off can’t be over already? The last 10 weeks have whipped by, and we’re now so familiar with the bakers in the tent, they...
‘We’ve got Magic to do’ – Unlimited: The Music of Stephen Schwartz Concert (online) Review
Stephen Schwartz is one of the best loved composers and lyricists in the world, famous for his role in many much-loved musicals including Wicked, Pippin, Godspell and The Prince of Egypt. His music is famous all over the world and thanks to Thespie, a new theatre...
‘We See The Same Thing’ – The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk Live Stream Review
A couple of months on from when Wise Children wowed us with their live stream of ‘Romantics Anonymous’, the team led by Emma Rice are back at the Bristol Old Vic in partnership with Kneehigh, live streaming ‘The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk’ into our homes. This is the...
Cuphead Review
Cuphead Review A game so gorgeous in it’s animation, I never wanted it to end. Studio MDHR have crafted a unique experience which feels like it’s pulled straight from the imagination of a 1930’s animator. A Smashing Time Cuphead’s story is simple: Cuphead and...
‘No Day But Today’ – Rent (Hope Mill Theatre Stream) Review
Like many other who had pulled out all the stops to get live theatre going again, The Hope Mill Theatre’s production of Rent had its plans scuppered by the second national lockdown. But if this long, hard year has proven anything, it’s that the theatre industry never...
‘That’s the way it ought to be’ – Marry Me A Little (Streamed) Review – Barn Theatre
This dreaded second lockdown may have stopped the live run of this new production of ‘Marry Me A Little’ in its tracks, but if this pandemic has proven anything, it is that nothing can stop the Barn Theatre. Within days of closing the production to live audiences, it...
Arthur Morgan: One of the greatest protagonists ever (Audio Story)
https://sites.marjon.ac.uk/doughnut/files/2021/01/Finished-Audio-Copy.mp3 So, Awards seasons. We all love/hate/tolerate them in whatever way we see fit, but they always come crawling back year after year after year after ye- And, alas, another awards show has come and...
‘Two Nobody’s in New York’ – Title of Show (Streamed) Review
Theatre is a living breathing thing, it grows, it adapts and it continues to be a big part of our lives even one week into a second national lockdown. With such successes as The Leave A Light On concert series, The Last Five Years in Lockdown, Songs for a New World...
‘The Story of the Boys of ’41’ – From Here to Eternity (The Show must go online) review
The 1951 novel ‘From Here to Eternity’ is considered one of the greats of war fiction, with a famous film adaptation released two years after the book. In 2013, the story of American soldiers stationed in Hawaii in the lead up to the attack on Pearl Harbour made the...
