RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Review: The Odyssey gets the Living Spit treatment – and this time it’s Odysseus’ wife Penelope who takes centre stage in a brilliant musical comic re-imagining of the Ancient Greek saga
Review: The Odyssey. Salisbury Arts Centre Knob jokes, comedy props and sensational singing make Living Spit’s version of Odysseus’ chronically…
AXBRIDGE REVIEW NEWS: The Progressive Supper – don’t panic if you haven’t been able to book yet – this is how you can still take part if you’ve had trouble booking online (it’s easy)
Lots of couples in Axbridge are concerned they have been unable to sign up for the Progressive Supper on November…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: diary for November features Mumblecrust Theatre, pantomimes and Christmas productions that include Snow White and Rapunzel
Fairy tales and a 19th century re-invention of Christmas come to the stage this winter. Harry Mottram gets all Christmassy…
AXBRIDGE REVIEW NEWS: Axbridge’s Mumblecrust Theatre stage HG Wells’ The Time Machine – check out the autumn tour dates
Katie Underhay and Anthony Burbridge of Axbridge are currently on tour with their show based on the HG Wells novel…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: Video interview with the curator of the Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp with Werner van Hoof
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th century printers…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: Caught short on a long journey and not being able to go in a stranger’s toilet – the trials and tribulations of the long distant runner
Like many people going to the loo isn’t just a biological issue. It’s more complicated than that. The story of…
BREXIT: a way out of the impasse – but you may not like what my answer is
It is generally agreed that the country is currently gripped by the political crisis that is Brexit. Parliament has rejected…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: Theatre Review: much ado about a lot in Elizabeth Freestone’s refreshingly funny contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous battle of wits between the sexes with Beatrice and Benedick’s enjoyable verbal sparring
Much Ado About Nothing. Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Soldiers, snogging and songs mark Much Ado About Nothing as a youthful and…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Review: too many nuns with beards in the Bristol Old Vic’s misfiring Cyrano that mismatches the leading characters in Edward Rostand’s 17th century story of unrequited love
Cyrano. Bristol Old Vic. A bit like Cyrano’s nose, Tom Morrison’s production of Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac was…