Tis Pity , Jeeves and Wooster, Fatal Attraction and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

I have been very busy once again watching shows and performing in them over the last few months . The last show I performed in was Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford . It tells the story of brother and sister Giovanni and Annabella who fall in love with one another and begin to have an affair . Annabella is to be married to Soranzo , and does marry him but falls pregnant with Giovanni's child , and once Soranzo finds out he hits the roof . Soranzo's creepy servant Vasques tells all of this to his matter and plots in the undoing of the lovers . Giovanni kills Annabella and a fight breaks out in which Soranzo and Giovanni both die in the end . It is a gruesome play but was fun to act in , we did it in tradtional Jacobean dress which was beautifully made a lovely to wear . 

I played Putana a friend  of Annabella's / distant cousin in our version . She was a sassy gossip who was pretty much a sixteenth century Samantha Jones from Sex and The City . She promotes the siblings incest and spills all the Vasques as he prodes it out of her . She gets her eyes cut out and burns at the stake in the end . But she  was fun to play and had some fantastic sexual inuendo jokes and sayings , I miss her a lot .

The Ladies of Tis Pity  Annabella (top left) Hippolitta (top right)

Putana (bottom right ) Philotis (bottom left )

I also went to see Jeeves and Wooster in Complete Nonsense with my friend Sarah in March . It starred Matthew Macfadyn and Stephen Mangan at the Duke of Yorks theater in London. It was a hilarious play which was fast paced and involved two actors playing a variety of parts . I loved the simple set and how Jeeves would bring it on and how ridiculous some of the multiple parts were . Matthew was so straight faced as Jeeves and Stephan was so ott as Wooster . My favorite part was when they danced a Charleston style jazz dances at the end it was so well done and funny as well . I recommend seeing  this show  if you need a good laugh !!!

Fatal Attraction has recently come to the Theater Royal Haymarket in London with Kristin Davis and Mark Beazlley . I really enjoyed this show , the staging was really clever using blue digital screens as dividers , and the use of Madam, Butterfly for the psycho Alex's breakdown was clever . Kristin Davis played his wife and Mark Beazley was the husband, both performed really well and the show has a unexpected twist at the end . I recommend seeing this show for something different to watch . And we met Kristin Davis afterwards and she is so lovely and inspiring with all the animal welfare work she does as well .

  

And last night I went to see Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in Brighton with some friends , it is touring the UK starring Helena Blackman and Sam Attwater. The show tells the story of Adam who comes down from the mountains to find a wife , he chooses Millie and takes her home . She is unaware he has seven brothers and is in for a nasty shock, she soon educates his brothers and turns them into polite young men and they meet seven brides at a dance , but break into a fight which scares their reputation and embrasses Millie . Adam tells the brothers the story of the sabine women and how the romans stole them . They steal the brides and cause a avalanche so they can't get home till spring , it takes a while but the brides come around and don't want to go home so lie to their famalies and beaus when they come to get them saying they have had a baby , which is really Millie's and in the end they all get married and live happily . The show was brilliant and I have seen it twice before but it has been different each time . Helena Balckman has a beautiful voice , and the dancing was fantastic . The brothers were very pleasing on the eye and the set worked really well . I love this musical and will have the songs in my head for weeks now, but that isn't such a bad thing , is it ?

I have a few more shows to watch including : Buddy , Tis Pity she's a Whore and Katya and Pasha again as well . I am also in a devised piece for Brighton Fringe called These Precious Hidden Things , set in a fiction prison in 1930's Brighton , where the pearl strangler has been caught !!! Exciting Stuff !!!