Being a sentimental person, I can never bear to part with my theatre tickets. It may just be a piece of paper, but there are many fond memories attached to it. Finding an old theatre ticket doesn’t just remind me of the happiness a show brought me at the time, but also the people I …
Rejection is a hard thing to take with your confidence intact. To be rejected from something is always a bleak and demoralising experience, no matter how you try to spin it. It can also lead to increased anxiety, jealousy and unhappiness – all of which are things I have experienced over the past year. For …
Should we be worried about losing intervals? Theatre critic, Lyn Gardener, at The Stage thinks that we should scrap them entirely. Her comments came after the Globe Theatre announced their 2021 season would resume without intervals. This is mainly for covid safety reasons above anything else. But her argument is that intervals are really just …
*SPOILER WARNING: FOR BOTH THE BOOKS AND THE TV SHOW* You could say I fell into this fandom hard down six flights of stairs and off a bridge. A mere week ago I hadn’t even read any of the Grishaverse books. Now, thanks to a couple of obsessed friends, here we are. I started and …
It’s been ten days since my last blog post. I don’t think I’ve ever left it this long before between posts. There’s a ton of things I want to write about, but honestly I’ve just felt so demoralised to do anything this week. I try not to be so openly negative on my blog, but …
Trigger warning: this post mentions sexual assault, sexual harrassment and stalking. This past week I’ve been quite shaken by something that happened in my local area. There’s a lot of noise in my head right now, and I’m finding the news and social media to be very overwhelming. Maybe I’m just contributing towards all that …
Occasionally, I will hear a song from a musical that completely captures my heart, only to discover later that it was cut. Sometimes it’s just not a good song, other times it doesn’t help propel the narrative forward. In recent years, it hasn’t been unheard of for cast albums to include cut songs as bonus …
If someone had told me this time last year we would have a professionally produced digital concert of Ratatouille the Musical, I would have laughed in their face. What started as a viral trend, cooked up by TikTok users, has ended up being the world’s first crowd-sourced musical. Theatres turned their lights off in March …
The pandemic has been unkind to many. For anyone who has lost their job over the past year – I feel your pain. Working in the tourism industry in London for a company that was thriving financially felt like a secure job. Now around half their staff, maybe more, have had their positions made redundant. …
Guys, 2020 was rough. I started out the year with a list of resolutions, as I’m sure many of us do. For the most part, I was unable to actually fulfil any of them. So I’ve had a few days to think about it and decided that this year I don’t necessarily want to write …
