Combining the traditional skills of circus with contemporary theatrics, Cirque Berserk is utterly jaw-droppingly impressive from start to finish. It’s a heart-stopping, visually stunning masterpiece in entertainment – and I cannot recommend it enough. I watched the opening performance in Cardiff tonight with my two eldest children, Little Miss E,...
Charles Dickens’ classic novel is given the all-singing, all-dancing treatment as Cardiff’s Orbit Theatre bring the 1994 musical A Christmas Carol to the New Theatre stage. Running until Saturday, it’s a great show for families with older children. Considering Orbit are an amateur company, the standard of performances, costumes and scenery...
I was so relieved to see the sun shining this morning. After yesterday’s non-stop torrential rain, I was worried for the young cast of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast Junior. Everyman’s annual open air theatre festival is a big event in the Cardiff theatrical calendar, amateur or otherwise. Yet while...
Adapting a popular picture book into a stage show is always a tough task. How do you turn a story that takes no more than five minutes to read into an hour-long performance that is faithful to the story but which entertains and holds the attention of the audience? Especially...