August 2019 Wyvern's Summer Youth Project Serve up a sweet treat with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang If it's late August that can mean only one thing: Wyvern's Theatre Summer Youth Project 2019.Running since 1994, the summer youth project has become a highlight of the...
At last! It’s been my intention to feature the small but perfectly formed Shoebox Theatre on here for ages of a crow. Yet somehow or other I’ve failed. Never mind – they’re here now!
15th December 2018 The Journey Last weekend saw me - and many others - in Swindon's Old Town being part of The Journey. The Journey, as described on photographer Elmar Rubio's website, was 'an immense, immersive theatrical telling of the Christmas story'. It entailed...
12th December 2018 Aladdin at The Wyvern Aladdin: Saturday 8th December - Sunday 6th January 2019 To clear any doubt: the story of Aladdin didn't start life as a Disney franchise. Aladdin is, in fact, is a folk tale originating in the Middle East. Aladdin is one of...
August 2018 The Summer Youth Project do Oliver! Summer Youth Project Oliver WOW! I've been to several summer youth project performances now and they've never failed to delight. But - last night, I saw them perform Oliver and it blew my socks off. The case were...
29th April 2018 Uncelebrated Journey Swindon's talent - telling Swindon's Story Earlier this week I attended a press launch of the above named-event. This one-off, set-to-be-spectacular event is the brainchild of the new and current, High Sheriff of Wiltshire, Nicky...
19th January 2018 [jetpack_subscription_form] The Phoenix Players Well dear listeners. Earlier this week, Swindon Old Town Rotary kindly invited me along to one of their breakfast meetings to talk to them about this here blog and related matters. They are a jolly...
5th December 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Wyvern Theatre Peter Pan Panto time Well listeners it's that time of year again. Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is! If Christmas is coming then the Panto is here. Like all good theatres up and down the land, the Wyvern...
26th September 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Dreamboats and Petticoats Rock 'n roll is here to stay, It will never die It was meant to be that way, Though I don't know why… So sang Danny and the Juniors back in 1958/59. Well the last few weeks at the Wyvern Theatre...
[jetpack_subscription_form] 26th August 2017 The Wyvern Theatre Summer Youth Project 2017 go on a Summer Holiday Gosh! This is a blast from my past and no mistake. The film ' Summer Holiday' was released waaaaaaaaay back in 1963 and starred a fresh-faced Cliff...
27th July 2017 [jetpack_subscription_form] Overview of Swindon's theatre scene:via Wyvern Theatres' blog Hello listeners I have, as you know, over the lifetime of this blog, banged on ad nauseam on here about Swindon's theatre scene. And arts. And heritage. Culture in...
As with most British nursery rhymes, a seemingly innocent ditty, Three Blind Mice has sinister undertones. And in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, currently playing at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon, you get a real sense of menace from that little tune we’re all so familiar with.
