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January 26, 2020 Susan Elkin

Stop surcharging theatre tickets

Theatre ticket prices are loaded with extras and they shouldn’t be. If a seat is priced at, say, £50, then that’s what...

January 19, 2020 Susan Elkin

Keep blowing, banging and bowing

I see a great deal of theatre for young audiences, most of it imaginative and enjoyable. In some ways it’s the most...

January 12, 2020 Susan Elkin

When theatre evokes memories

My father, Ken Hillyer, was an accomplished folk fiddler and ceilidh band leader. He formed a group called the Southerners, the other...

January 3, 2020 Susan Elkin

Hairspray (Susan Elkin reviews)

Hairspray Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan. Based on John Waters’s...

January 3, 2020 Susan Elkin

The Wizard of Oz (Susan Elkin reviews)

The Wizard of Oz (Chichester Festival Youth Theatre) By L. Frank Baum. Music and Lyrics of the MGM motion picture score by...

December 29, 2019 Susan Elkin

Are you trained to act on screen?

Drama schools are still accused of having their heads stuck in theatrical clouds so that their graduates leave college with little idea...

December 22, 2019 Susan Elkin

Puppetry degree, anyone?

Oh how easy it is to sneer when you’re not in full possession of the facts. Last week  2,500 students surveyed by...