FALLING STARS (Union Theatre/Stream Theatre)****

  

By Alan

Link: https://www.stream.theatre/shows £18

Available until: Further livestreams on Monday 23^rd-Saturday 29^th November, with 2.30pm matinees on Saturday 28^th and Sunday 29^th.

I don’t always like juke box musicals as I think they can be a bit lazy but I don’t really see this as a juke box musical. There’s no plot, it’s more the story of music from around the 1920s which was obviously 100 years ago. Peter Polycarpou does most of the presenting and the explanation of what music was being written but he is helped in this by Sally Ann Triplett who does some of the narration and sings quite a lot of the songs.

LITTLE WARS (Union Theatre)****

 

By Tommy

Link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/theatre4all-online £12

Available until: Access is for 24 hours, beginning at 10am on the day of the ‘performance’. It will be available every day until 3^rd December 2020.

Trigger warnings: Violence, rape, anti-Semitism, abortion

Little Wars is the fascinating story of seven women and the ways in which their lives change as a result of one single evening spent at the house of two of the women, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. If you are fortunate enough to be considerably more well-read than I am, you might find those names familiar – and if not, you are almost certain to recognise the name of at least one of the other guests. The two writers, involved in a romantic relationship for many years, are joined by three other members of their profession: Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and Agatha Christie. Also among them are psychiatrist Mary, who has arrived on the wrong day, and servant Bernadette.