Creator of Mythos: Ragnarök - Ed Gamester - joins Pepper&Salt to discusses show's return to the Edinburgh Fringe and it all came to be.
Norse Gods and Wrestling: Interview With Ed Gamester
Bonnie and Clyde The Musical : Filmed Live
Not finished raising a little hell, Bonnie and Clyde is back once again with a live concert version filmed at the Royal Theatre Drury Lane in January 2022. Directed by Nick Winston with music by Frank Wildhorn, book by Ivan Menchell and lyrics by Don Black, this live concert version of Bonnie and Clyde is a simply brilliant example and celebration - not only of this musical and the genre - but for the accessibility and love for theater.
A NOBLE CALL: Company of Calum Finlay’s ‘FANNY’ Issues an Invitation to Women Musicians
The company of the world premiere production of FANNY - a new comedy by Calum Finlay centring on the life of Fanny Mendelssohn - have today issued an invitation to women musicians to take part in the Irish tradition of the Noble Call, which is derived from the tradition of calling on guests at a party to share a song, a poem or to respond to the mood of the day.
Little Shop of Horrors
Staging a classic is not an easy task. It comes with the expectation of novelty, of bringing to light another angle, to be edgy, to say something new about the themes or the issues. The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group’s Little Shop of Horrors takes Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s musical is an incredible show on its own merits, but we can't help feel that there are some missed opportunities here. Tom Beazley and Amy Stinton have created a very gritty show that is fully focused on its critique of the American Dream, but we are really left to make our own connections to how these ideas manifest in the present day ourselves.
Trust
Gossip Girl, Succession and now Trust. All of these shows are part of a curiously morbid fascination that fiction has with the upper-classes; the wealth, status and drama of the world that these characters inhabit. Written by Nicole Sellew and Natalie Westgor, on the surface this show seems to attempt to analyse privilege and its harms, but the constant drama, lack of remorse and severe unlikeability of all of the characters means that we’re subsequently pulled into a melodrama.
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