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Forest Bird: March 2014
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 23 March 2014. I Can't Sing: The X Factor Musical. Saturday 15 March 2014, 2.00pm (preview). I Can't Sing is absolutely bonkers. What a treat, in what are sometimes depressing times, to watch a show that will just make you giggle. This show is a colourful, fun and technically fascinating homage to what is now, love it or loathe it, a British institution - the X Factor TV show. I Can't Lie - I have always been a Nigel Harman ...
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Forest Bird: November 2011
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 27 November 2011. Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Saturday 26 November 2011, 2.30pm. Wow, wow, wow, wow was all V kept saying as we took our seats and she saw five small numbers on the stage and the Numberjacks logo on a screen - so to be honest, it doesn't really matter what I think! Anyhoo - in short, the number 4 was taken, appropriately enough by the Number Taker, and rescued by the Numberjacks, with the help of the audience.
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Forest Bird: February 2011
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Saturday, 26 February 2011. Charles Dickens is such a fabulous storyteller that the less an adapter does to his work the better so I was pleased that Tanika Gupta kept to the same basic story in her version of Great Expectations - just put it somewhere else. In Dickens' novel, Pip has an encounter with a convict and is then given the chance to better himself when asked to regularly visit the reclusive Miss Havisham. It is the same t...
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Forest Bird: October 2014
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 12 October 2014. A Doll's House - UK Touring Theatre. Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City. 11 October 2014, 7.30pm. It is always a relief to find something to counteract the banality of Saturday night TV that I am usually sucked into watching and this week I found it at the Hawthorne Theatre. The arrival of an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve threatens to do just that. It is credit to the four actors, directed by Michae...
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Forest Bird: July 2011
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Wednesday, 27 July 2011. Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa. 27 July 2011 (11am). Justin is something special! Well, he has to be if he can get me sitting in the middle of a packed theatre full of pre-schoolers at 11.oo in the morning! Not on my own obv! Four years ago today I was preparing for our wedding tomorrow with not even the slightest inkling of where I'd be sitting four years later! He is known for his slapstick routines and ...
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Forest Bird: Justin Live!
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Wednesday, 27 July 2011. Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa. 27 July 2011 (11am). Justin is something special! Well, he has to be if he can get me sitting in the middle of a packed theatre full of pre-schoolers at 11.oo in the morning! Not on my own obv! Four years ago today I was preparing for our wedding tomorrow with not even the slightest inkling of where I'd be sitting four years later! He is known for his slapstick routines and ...
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Forest Bird: Numberjacks Live
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 27 November 2011. Grove Theatre, Dunstable. Saturday 26 November 2011, 2.30pm. Wow, wow, wow, wow was all V kept saying as we took our seats and she saw five small numbers on the stage and the Numberjacks logo on a screen - so to be honest, it doesn't really matter what I think! Anyhoo - in short, the number 4 was taken, appropriately enough by the Number Taker, and rescued by the Numberjacks, with the help of the audience.
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Forest Bird: March 2011
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 20 March 2011. Saturday 19 March 2011 (MAT). The king of Lears. I am embarrassed to admit that I spent a good ten minutes at work last week, explaining how the tunes to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Baa Baa Black Sheep and the Alphabet song were essentially the same. (Bet you're all singing them now? And I was relieved to be going! I had also worried that having three hours sitting quietly in the dark was such a novelty that ...
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Forest Bird: June 2011
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 19 June 2011. In The Night Garden Live. The Pinky Ponk Show. Showdome, Woburn Abbey. 18 June 2011 (1pm). A real trip to a surreal world! The thought of taking a toddler to the theatre is enough to fill anyone with a sense of dread, especially when you are the parent of a child who is only still for any length of time when she's asleep - or watching In The Night Garden on the telly! The inflatable showdome also looks exciting...
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Forest Bird: May 2009
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A forest bird never wants a cage" - Henrik Ibsen. This me out of a cage. Sunday, 17 May 2009. Little Shop of Horrors. Rich dark chocolate factory stuff! This wonderfully kitsch and camp show which also boasts some great songs is an un-taxing and fun evening, but I have to first say what I spent most of the production contemplating! Matthew White's production has lots of charm, even if it’s all quite ludicrous! Quite over the top but this didn’t matter a bit. Clive Rowe is an excellent voice of Audrey II ...