Christmas pantomime is all about men dressing as women, women acting as men and plenty of audience participation. We get to shout at baddies and laugh at corny jokes. What better way of helping us to forget the dreary credit crunch, Wayne Rooney’s indecent wage packet and of course The X Factor than a helping […]
Eyemouth Variety Group’s ‘Annie’ a great success
It is conventional for the reviewer to point out the flaws in a production but in Annie I can scarcely recall any. The laundry man collided with the screen on his way in and the trumpeter started trumpeting before the announcements were over but they were first night wobbles. I also thought that some of […]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! What a marvellous show at Eyemouth OCTOBER arrives, the clocks go back, the rain starts to fall and the temperature drops and we all begin to wonder where the next warm, exciting, colourful and vibrant experience will come from. Those who were lucky enough to see the Eyemouth and District Community […]
Oliver has audience asking for more!
OLIVER Twist is a sombre novel so you would expect it to make a sombre musical. How sombre depends on how the cast handles it: too jaunty and it loses its point; too slow and it becomes dreary. That is the risk for a story that has a boy sleeping among coffins and ends with […]
Superb young talent on show in Eyemouth panto
THIS dazzling show gave us two for the price of one. We were delighted by the children and thoroughly entertained by the adults. The adults in the form of the ugly sisters (May Jappy, Maureen Gillie) and the evil stepmother (Christine Henderson) hammed it up beautifully, creating a riot of colour and rattling off the […]
My Fair Lady is real showstopper
LAST year when I said I thought Eyemouth Variety Group could tackle My Fair Lady, I meant it as a compliment; I didn’t mean that they should actually attempt it. When I heard that they had chosen to do it, I wondered whether I should go into hiding. My Fair Lady is a daunting task. […]
Viva Mexico! – Talent shines through at Eyemouth
THERE are two kinds of musical: one that carries the cast along; the other that is carried along by the cast – Viva Mexico! is of the second sort. The plot is corny, the dialogue is wooden, there are too many songs, the end is in the middle and it lasts too long. It could […]
Eyemouth youth group presents Robinson Crusoe
DO not believe the stories about Robinson Crusoe being all alone on a desert island. In this show the place was heaving with people including a Man Friday who turned out to be either James (or Brooke)Bond or Campbell McNeil whichever you prefer. And what an attractive bunch they were. Robinson was played precisely by […]
Annie Get Your Gun – Eyemouth production a riproaring success
THIS show was a delight. It is an old-fashioned musical: feel-good, no hidden message and gloriously politically incorrect. The plot is thin but the songs, humour and larger than life characters carry it along. The two leads were nicely balanced. Lynn Manderston (Annie) combined the rough tough gun-slinging backwoodswoman with the dreamy-eyed weak-kneed lovebird to […]
