By Ken Powell A shorter version of this interview was published here for Lancashire Life magazine. This is the interview in full. Charlotte Keatley wrote the play ‘My Mother Said I Never Should’ in 1985 aged just 25. The play has gone on to be the most performed play by a female playwright and translated… Read More An Interview with Charlotte Keatley
By Ken Powell The contemporary ballet group, Phoenix Dance Theatre, performed ‘Left Unseen’ and Igor Stravinsky’s classic ‘The Rite of Spring’ at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake on Wednesday 8 May, and gave the audience a thing of beauty which was hard to define. Stravinsky’s musical work famously supposedly caused a riot in Paris when… Read More Theatre Review: The Rite of Spring by Phoenix Dance Theatre
By Ken Powell I’ll be blunt: ‘Heart of Darkness’ is one of the most excitingly innovative and challenging productions I’ve ever had the good fortune to watch. I can’t recommend it enough. The production is touring but currently on at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. Performed by the curiously-named ‘imitating the dog’ company, is a… Read More Theatre Review: Heart of Darkness
First published in Lancashire Life 1st June 2018 Theatre Review: Rails By Ken Powell Complementing their main stage hilarious farce, Jeeves & Wooster, opening the summer season, Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have also started with the much more serious (and world premiere) Rails in the intimate studio theatre. The play, by Simon Longman,… Read More Theatre Review: Rails
First published in Lancashire Life 1st June 2018 Theatre Review: Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense By Ken Powell Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) has opened its new summer season of plays with a cracking farce which I predict may well be the smash hit of the year. The classic books by P.G. Wodehouse… Read More Theatre Review: Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Originally published in Lancashire Life Theatre Review: A Streetcar Named Desire By Ken Powell The English Touring Theatre (ETT) have come to the Lake District’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) to present a new version of Tennessee William’s classic ‘A Streetcar Named Desire‘. Just as the themes of the play are difficult (Williams didn’t believe… Read More Theatre Review: A Streetcar Named Desire
I have been remiss with posting my many theatre reviews and opinion column pieces on here recently – the modern-day problems with being a busy working freelance writer! Time to make up for this however. To begin with, here’s my latest review which was originally published in Lancashire Life. Theatre Review: Great Expectations at Theatre by… Read More Theatre Review: Great Expectations
This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016. Millican Dalton was, without doubt, an oddbod. This self-styled ‘Professor of Adventure’ who left his city job to hide away in a cave in Borrowdale was an eccentric who was famous locally and enjoyed greater national fame in his lifetime than he would… Read More Theatre Review: The Professor of Adventure
This review was originally published in the Egremont 2Day in April 2016 This new play based on the bestselling book by James Rebanks and adapted for the stage by Chris Monks, is a bold venture for Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake. With puppets and local volunteers taking important roles, big risks were taken with this… Read More Theatre Review: The Shepherd’s Life
This review was written for the Egremont 2Day newspaper in August 2015. The cast at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake continue to tickle the fancy of audiences with this third and last comedy of the current season. Fallen Angels is one of Coward’s lesser known plays but at the time caused shock and outrage with… Read More Theatre Review: Fallen Angels by Noël Coward
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