Friday, October 25, 2019
An all-female company has signed wrestling’s first code of conduct with Equity, proving that thrills and spills in the ring are as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMAs a book about the Milan-born performer who rose to become one of Britain’s most famous clowns is published, Douglas McPherson delves
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Director Josh Seymour’s show Musik is drawing in crowds at the Edinburgh Fringe before transferring to London. He tells Douglas McPherson about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMTrailblazing jukebox musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Writer and producer Alan Janes tells Douglas McPherson
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Britain’s cultural exports range from Shakespeare to the Beatles, but today, the 10th World Circus Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate
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“If you ask my mum, she’ll say I’ve been clowning for 46 years,” says Andrew Davis, better known as Andy the Clown.
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As he takes up the baton for Hawkwind’s live orchestra, multifaceted musician Mike Batt tells Douglas McPherson about the highs and lows
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It’s 30 years since Rebecca Truman founded pioneering aerial company Skinning the Cat. As she publishes her new memoir, she tells Douglas
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As a book of classic posters from the golden age of British circus nears publication, Douglas McPherson looks back at the family-run
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It’s not just the numerous scene changes of Cromer’s 40-year-old variety show that have posed challenges to its longstanding designer Ian Westbrook,
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Captain Dan, the Demon Dwarf, is no stranger to painful onstage antics, such as attaching a vacuum cleaner nozzle to his willy
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Next time you head to the supermarket, spare a thought for the advance manager of Sir Robert Fossett’s Circus in the 1970s.
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In 2012, circus grandee Gerry Cottle made headlines when he announced his support for a ban on animals in the big top.
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The annual Clown Gathering UK sees entertainers from all over the country descend on the Seagull Theatre in Lowestoft for a week
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Andrew Davis knows you should never work with animals or children, but he has one to add to that: “You should never
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The miners’ strike, high unemployment and clashes between the police and New Age travellers. That was the charged political landscape against which
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“Taking the extreme to the mainstream” is how Circus of Horrors founder Doctor Haze puts it. And since the show is celebrating
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As Britain’s last lion tamer, Thomas Chipperfield is used to facing down predators. So the 25-year-old was quick to fight back when
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If you applied for life insurance and said you were a knife thrower’s assistant, the average insurance broker would probably check the
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Two accidents in the space of a week have reminded us of the danger circus performers face every day. On bank holiday
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Douglas McPherson can't think of one publicly funded show that was any good - while every day commercial world creates amazing things without help
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Theatre Royal, Norwich: After a couple of vintage years, it's a shame to report that Peter Pan is one of the Norwich Theatre Royal's periodic exercises in going through the motions…
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Thomas Chipperfield has more than 300 years of animal training in his blood. Faced with a ban on wild animals in the circus, he defends a vocation his family has pursued for three centuries
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Theatre Royal, Norwich: Relocating Cinderella to an Edwardian seaside hotel gives this pantomime a fresh and uplifting look in-keeping with the current trend for all things vintage. The boat…
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Norwich Playhouse: For a play about a man trapped underground in complete darkness, <a href="http://www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/detail/the-trench" target="_blank&qu…
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Playhouse, Norwich: In her recent book, So You Want To Be In Musicals?, Ruthie Henshall channels her quarter-century of West End and Broadway experience into an essential step-by-step guide …
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Theatre Royal, Norwich: Austerity? There's none on display among the golden-coloured sets and flying carpets of this lavishly dressed production which delivers a slickly flowing parade …
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Pavilion Theatre, Cromer: A filmed James Bond parody, with Olly Day running through Cromer and taking a boat out to the theatre on the end of the pier, makes an engaging start to Christmas S…
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Norwich Cathedral: With circus meeting opera late at night in a cathedral, it's a case of roll up, roll up your eyes at the sheer pretentiousness of How Like An Angel. Especially when t…
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Pavilion Theatre, Cromer: Celebrating Jubilee year, the Olympics and its own 35th birthday, this year's Summer Seaside Special delivers a variety show of unflagging pace and energy.
Rea…
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Theatre Royal, Norwich: The Chinese circus tradition is more than 2,000 years old, but still companies like Cirque du Ciel find ways of dressing its familiar routines (hand balancing, double…
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