Spamilton Roger Mortimer 30/07/2018 So here we have Spamilton, the name being a combination of Hamilton and Spamalot, itself a play on the name of the musical Camelot… still with me? It’...
Imperium Roger Mortimer 03/07/2018 The depth of our fascination with Julius Caesar may be gauged from the fact that not one but two modern words for an autocratic ruler ‒ Kaiser and Tsa...
84 Charing Cross Road Roger Mortimer 15/06/2018 There are certain things Amazon just can’t do for you, not even with Prime membership. I can’t imagine, for example, having a 20 year correspondence w...
Coconut Roger Mortimer 13/04/2018 If you run a theatre company called The Louises and are looking for a partner org to collaborate with, may I draw your attention to The Thelmas? They’...
Cathy Roger Mortimer 01/04/2018 How far are you from homelessness? How much would have to go wrong in your life? Then again, would anything have to go wrong at all, other than your l...
Oranges & Elephants Roger Mortimer 27/01/2018 If you were inventing two rival gangs for the purposes of a musical, you probably wouldn’t call one of them the Oranges, a word which notoriously rhym...
The House of Bernada Alba Roger Mortimer 15/12/2017 They say that as class sizes get bigger, teaching becomes less about teaching and more about crowd control, and the same might apply to staging a play...
Rapunzel Roger Mortimer 11/12/2017 About this time last year there was a shameful incident in Sevenoaks, when a local resident, seeing a poster advertising their forthcoming production ...
Jamaica Inn Roger Mortimer 13/11/2017 The film Hitchcock famously shows the great director describing the plot of Psycho to his nonplussed nwife, to which she replies - “Charming. Doris Da...
Macbeth Roger Mortimer 07/10/2017 Famous improvisational troupe the Comedy Store Players play a game where they ask the audience to suggest styles of theatre for them to continue the s...
