Missed The Boat: Doctor Faustus (2011)

That’s right – now that there are no theatres open, I have time to properly consider the things I’ve missed and catch up on them. So #MissedTheBoat is back! It felt only right to follow on from #ShakespeareSunday with #MarloweMonday, so I dug out my DVD of the Shakespeare’s Globe production of Doctor Faustus from […]

Day 6: Missed The Boat: Billy Elliot

I’m not sure why I didn’t see this one. Towards the end of its West End life I had the incentive of a Sunny alumnus being in the cast, so I should really have made it there then – the problem was that Victoria always felt very out of the way at that point, plus […]

Day 4: Missed The Boat: Stephen Ward

I very nearly did see this one, but it opened and closed so swiftly that I didn’t really have the chance – I wasn’t living in London at that point, so a bit more planning was required for my theatre trips. I must admit that I was also a little put off by a snippet of […]

Day 5: Missed The Boat: Hadestown

Rachel Chavkin certainly made the most of her time in London recently – before directing a new production of The American Clock at the Old Vic, she oversaw the transfer of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown to the National Theatre. I’m not quite sure how I managed to miss this one… The National’s season announcements do often […]

Missed The Boat: Rules for Living

I have to admit, the main motivation I had for trying to see this play from Sam Holcroft when it ran at the National’s Dorfman Theatre back in 2015 was some of the casting (Stephen Mangan and Miles Jupp are two brilliant comic actors), as well as hearing that they would have a full-on Christmas […]

Missed The Boat: We Will Rock You

What a difference, er, 16 years makes… Despite the show spending over a decade at the Dominion Theatre, I never managed to make it to see We Will Rock You in the height of my original Queen obsession – it actually closed just four months before I moved to London. I did, however, buy the […]

Missed The Boat: Fleabag

You may know this one from the BBC Three TV series that was produced in 2016, but in actual fact Fleabag’s story began with a one-woman play from the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre. Phoebe Waller-Bridge won the Fringe First Award for the show in 2013, as well as The […]

Missed The Boat: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs)

Well. Kneehigh and the Lyric Hammersmith have rather stolen my thunder on this one! As I’d planned all of these in advance, I decided I should stick to them – despite now being given the chance to correct my mistake of not knowing of Kneehigh when Dead Dog in a Suitcase was performed back in […]

Missed The Boat: What Girls Are Made Of

Just when you thought the Edinburgh posts were done with… I thought it would be quite apt for this month’s #MissedTheBoat to be one of the shows I couldn’t manage to fit into my hectic Fringe schedule. A classic case of poor timing with this one; I was a bit tardy in getting my press […]

Missed The Boat: Amélie

This is another missed opportunity from last year’s New York trip – particularly given that it was still in previews when I was over there, so potentially a slightly lower demand and price range… But it wasn’t to be (as you know, I didn’t end up seeing any show in a Broadway theater) and given […]