18 Aug 2014
After the successful staged concert run earlier this year at the Phoenix Artist Club, Molly Wobbly is opening at Leicester Square Theatre in January 2015.
THREE DESPERATE WOMEN,
TWO STRANGERS IN TOWN,
ONE HELL OF A MAKE-OVER!
The women of Little Happening are desperate – all three are trapped in loveless marriages and stuck with failing businesses. There is only one person who can help them – a woman they’ve never met. Her name is Molly Wobbly. Margaret, Ruth, and Jemma receive unexpected makeovers when a stranger arrives on Mammary Lane in the acclaimed musical comedy by PAUL BOYD that was the talk of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe! The show began life in 2011 as a staged concert at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. In 2012 a festival-scale production premiered at the Lyric and ran at the Assembly Rooms throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Most recently, in 2014, the show was presented as a staged concert at the Phoenix Artist Club. Molly Wobbly tells the saucy, sexy, outrageous story of Margaret, Ruth, and Jemma – three Little Happening shopkeepers who plot to get a few things off their chests. Bulging with big laughs, crammed with catchy songs, and chock-full of cheeky characters, Molly Wobbly is the hilarious musical comedy about a mysterious woman and her dream to make the world a more beautiful place.
Running at Leicester Square Theatre: 30th January – 14th March 2015 (previews from 27th January). For more information and tickets visit Molly Wobbly website.
12 Aug 2014
‘The Wiz’ sets Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of Oz to a high-energy fusion of rock, gospel and soul music. Director Robert Marsden, choreographer Scott Ritchie, musical director Matthew Reeve and producer Rachael Findlay were responsible for preparing the youngsters for the all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza – and making the crucial casting decisions.
Georgina Butler, MK Citizen
http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/community/community-news/review-the-wiz-milton-keynes-theatre-1-6233931
4 Jul 2014
Atmospheric theatre thanks to Matthew Reeve in particular who composed and devised an exotically weird soundtrack woven with breaking waves, and the crashing thunder of electronic storms.
Jenni Barlow, Minack Theatre
http://www.minack.com/reviewtempest.htm
28 May 2014
Preparations for The Wiz at Milton Keynes Theatre are well underway. We are beavering away and refreshing the orchestrations at the moment to bring this exciting score into the 21st Century. The show is now cast and we are looking forward to starting rehearsals. Tickets are available on the ATG website.
27 May 2014
AARON NEWLAND-BENTLEY has twisted my arm and ordered me to go and teach Estill Voice International Level One and Level Two courses in Bradford! So he has kindly organised the courses which are taking place at Dixons City Academy over the next two weekends where he teaches. For more information about the courses contact Aaron who will be happy to guide you in the right direction. Email aaronnewlandvt@gmail.com. Places are limited.
LEVEL ONE: FIGURES FOR VOICE™
Level One is for anyone interested in learning about the voice. This intense course begins with an overview, where we introduce the philosophy and science behind Estill Voice Training and Figures for Voice™ exercises. Presentations are combined with frequent small group practice sessions, supervised by fully-trained interns, where all participants experience creating and applying Figures for Voice™. In addition we run master class sessions where you can apply the exercises to your own performance. We cover how the system relates to different voice fields, from opera to musical theatre, from theatre voice to public speaking, and enable truly versatile vocal performers. As well as teachers and students of performance, this course will be of interest to speech and language therapists with voice clients.
LEVEL TWO: FIGURE COMBINATIONS FOR SIX VOICE QUALITIES™
This is a practical course where you experience creating the six voice qualities associated with Estill Voice Training: speech, falsetto, sob, twang, opera and belt. Discussion focuses on how to mix these qualities safely and how to apply them artistically in different genres. Presentations will be combined with small group practice sessions and master classes. As well as teachers and students of performance, this course will also be of interest to speech and language therapists with voice clients. Level Two is only for those who have already completed Level One.
28 Mar 2014
Few of those adaptations could match Bruiser Theatre Company’s new show for sheer intensity and verve in immersing us in Gogol’s delirious world. Writer Patrick J O’Reilly relocates the tale from Gogol’s St Petersburg to 1920s New York. This allows director Lisa May to mobilise all manner of enjoyable conceits, from a ragtime music score to silent-era slapstick, vaudeville, and the gangster film.
Pádraic Killeen, Irish Examiner
http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/artsvibe/reviews-265826.html#.U1d7ou03fKQ.facebook
To the strains of Matthew Reeve’s evocative Scott Joplin-inspired score and the distant pounding of typewriters, O’Reilly and Rose explode on stage, striking a note of frantic desperation and sweaty enthusiasm for the task in hand.
Jane Coyle, 28 March 2014, The Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/stage/review-the-nose-1.1742023
