Cryptmaster is releasing May 9th, and Hugo had great fun playing the Spellmaster Orthos in it!

He hopes you have fun playing it!

Hugo Myatt can be seen on Basil Brush’s Boom! Boom! It’s Christmas Again – Official Music Video 2022 which brings together over 30 special guest stars, to wish everyone the merriest of Christmases, but most importantly, to raise money for Save the Children and Shooting Star Chase Children’s Hospice.

Have a watch on YouTube and see if you can spot any other stars from your childhood!

The song, written and produced by Chris Clark, is available now in all good download stores including iTunes and Amazon . There’s also a ‘behind the scenes’ video of the making of the video – Boom! Boom! Let’s Try That Again!

The London Repertory Players’ rep season at the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne will open with its last play tomorrow, Tuesday. Victoria and Neil were in the first four plays – Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘Taking Steps’, Francis Durbridge’s ‘The Small Hours’, Noël Coward’s ‘Fallen Angels’, and JB Priestley’s ‘I Have Been Here Before’, one of his time plays, which was directed by Su Gilroy, another client of the agency. Here are pictures of them in ‘Fallen Angels’, ‘I Have Been Here Before’ and ‘The Small Hours’. Reviews to follow!
Photo credits Louise Emily

Congratulations to Victoria Porter and Neil James who opened in Alan Ayckbourn’s ‘Taking Steps’ at the Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne Minster last night. It’s the first play in a season of five, presented by The London Repertory Players. Victoria and Neil are in the first four plays – next week will be Francis Durbridge’s ‘The Small Hours’, followed by Noël Coward’s ‘Fallen Angels’, and finally JB Priestley’s ‘I Have Been Here Before’, one of his time plays. It’s going to be a great season – catch them if you can!

https://www.tivoliwimborne.co.uk/events/category/on-stage/

Bafta winning director Mark Gill directs Victoria in The Papers – A Kitchen Stove Drama for Esse Ovens.

Hugo really enjoyed being interviewed by Caiman and it’s already getting great feedback. Hugo is a marvellous story-teller and wonderful raconteur so the interview is very entertaining and funny. Do have a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H-IWK1kCA8

Since 2015, LRP have brought an annual season of professional productions to Boscombe’s Shelley Theatre. With the latter yet to reopen and live theatre treading carefully, a change of venue and a single production mark their return to the Bournemouth area. Deathtrap, still holding the record for longest-running comedy-thriller on Broadway, proves an excellent choice for this long-awaited return.

Set in 1978, in the central character’s study at his home in Connecticut, at the heart of the drama is successful playwright Sidney Bruhl, now artistically and financially becalmed amid box office failures and writer’s block. Having received for his critical assessment a script written by a former student, he shares his initial thoughts with wife Myra, then rings to invite the young, aspiring playwright over to discuss possible improvements: the script, like Levin’s play itself, is entitled Deathtrap, uses a single set and involves just five characters.

[I]t is … a superbly crafted, absorbing and entertaining piece of theatre. Vernon Thompson’s skilful direction weaves a tangled mesh of the elements that characterise such plays: plot twists, turns and reversals; murder; deception; and dialogue and action that might or might not be exactly what they seem. Pace, timing and the balance between elements of comedy and thriller, with dashes of melodrama and revenge tragedy, are all very well judged, providing a highly enjoyable evening’s theatre.

As Myra Bruhl, Victoria Porter is an always convincing foil to Al Wadlan’s Sidney, whether their interaction is harmonious or discordant. Equally, Claire Fisher as psychic neighbour Helga Ten Dorp and Richard Mullins as Bruhl’s lawyer Porter Milgrim are quick to establish the distinctive identities of their characters, providing splendid foils for Bruhl in particular.

Allocation of and distancing between occupied seats is skilfully managed and it was clear, not least from the laughter and the applause, how much the first-night audience enjoyed the performance.

Whether you have missed regular pre-Covid theatre trips or are in the mood to add the delights of live theatre to your life, if you possibly can, book yourself a ticket and get along to the Tivoli Theatre for a thoroughly enjoyable production.

Extract from review by Phil Vivian for SceneOne+ 29^th July 2021

http://sceneoneplus.com/deathtrap-2/

There have been some lovely reviews for House Guest, the play that Victoria Porter and Neil James have been in at Pokesdown.

The Daily Echo wrote: “Wadlan and [Victoria] Porter are excellent as the distraught couple. There are strong performances too from the supporting cast, particularly Neil James as Inspector Burford”.

Scene One Plus admired the company too: “These guys delivered every line with perfect audibility; they varied pitch, pace, pause and inflection with consummate skill and […] had us on the edge of our seats”.

The final play of the season is Murder Mistaken which Victoria and Neil are also both in and we wish them well with it. http://shelleytheatre.co.uk/

Victoria Porter and Neil James are both in Bournemouth as part of the London Repertory Players summer rep season at the Shelley Theatre. http://shelleytheatre.co.uk/

They are currently rehearsing the Francis Durbridge play House Guest which opens on Thursday 22nd August.

They will then start rehearsing Murder Mistaken by Janet Green which opens on Thursday 29th August.

We are sure that they will have great success with both plays and are looking forward to seeing them, and perhaps having an ice cream at the seaside!

Carrie Hill’s show in Edinburgh, Shakespearience, is getting rave reviews from some of the most difficult to please audience members – children!

“It was so, so funny” – Harry, aged 6

“It was fantastically amazing!” – Sylvia, aged 9

“I loved the show and thought you were all fantastic” – aged 5

“It was the best fringe show we have seen!” – aged 7