Episode 136 - Barefaced Theatre interview (Medea tour)

On the review front, I went along to the Sheringham Little Theatre summer rep season opener, which saw them produce a farce by Ken Ludwig called Lenmere Tenor.

It was brilliantly done, so pacey, an excellent cast, and most crucially, very funny.

That particular show rotates in their summer season, so I can't tell you exactly what date it's on, but it continues until the end of August.

I also went along to Norwich Theatre Royal to watch their production of La Traviata by Verdi.

This was the latest of their collaboration with Buxton International Festival, with whom they've made a six-year commitment to producing high-quality opera.

And with La Traviata, no one could argue that they didn't fulfill that brief, with an exceptional staging, a brilliant orchestra, and a really high-quality cast.

But in spite of all these key elements...

There was a certain spark missing from the relationship between the two romantic leads and actually my biggest gripe is with the story itself which I just wasn't gripped by.

Now I know that might seem sacrilege given La Traviata is Verdi's most performed work but it just left me cold.

There were some other issues too which I've covered in my review and if you're interested in reading either of the reviews take a look at eatpod.co.uk. Away from East Anglia, I went to the London Palladium to see Jesus Christ Superstar, the much-anticipated, talked-about revival featuring Sam Ryder as Jesus.

The show was phenomenal, as you'd expect, although the first 15 minutes of it was unexpectedly beset by sound issues.

But after a 10-minute delay while they sorted things out, it then continued in incredible fashion.

Sam Ryder was the big draw for many in attendance, but as good as he was and his version of Gethsemane was draw-dropping, he was actually outshone by Billy Nevers in the role of Judas.

I also really enjoy Richard Armitage's camp cameo as Herod.

away from watching shows i ended last weekend in a recording studio in norwich lending my voice to an audio drama being co-produced by sherringham little theatre and tea makers production the company run by saran jones and husband lawrence acres it was a play called shamble which was one of the winners of a playwriting competition run by the theater last year We did a stage reading of it as part of the competition and the theatre committed to professionally producing it, but decided that Shamble would be best served as an audio drama.

I'm not sure when it'll be available to listen to, but to tell you a little bit about it, it's a brilliant, creepy, dystopian drama about a teenager who gets entwined with a sort of AI bot known as a shambler.

I was the voice of the Shambler and a couple of other bits in it too, but I really enjoyed observing some audio pros at work and seeing how certain sounds were created.