Michelle Knight, Author at North West End UK

26May

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London

Aspects of Love – Lyric Theatre

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love originally came to stage in 1989, this beautifully written adaptation with Lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart revisits the emotional tumultuous and ethically challenged love triangle set in post war France and Venice. Michael Ball returns to the stage as the accomplished George Dillingham. Actress Rose, fickle and in need of male affection is performed with palpable emotion and grit by Laura Pitt-Pulford. Giulietta, the Italian sculptor played by Danielle de Niese wows the theatre audience with her performance as George’s mistress. Their relationships become entwined within a web of egotistical jealousy, passion and complexity when Alex, Jamie Bogyo a soldier whose infatuation of love for Rose shifts awkwardly to Jenny his young cousin in an ...

20Mar

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London

Burnout – Vault Festival

Burnout starts with tackling the impact of flooding in a northern town, the effects of climate change, on the local people, the environment and the activists vying for solutions. The characters Bridgette (Bridge) an activist and Amara a 16yr old girl who pops out to get milk quickly finds she is enthralled and curious about the activist (Bridge). Amara is keen to share her thoughts and feelings of the impact of activism on the cause and herself. The play focuses on the call to action from audience participation which is encouraged and the carefully provoking dialogue. Photo: Tom Johnson Written by Nicole Acquah and directed by Caitlin Evans, this short play is about activism, and the reality of climate justice, the show exposes the burnout of the planet and burnout of the acti...

Titanic The Musical – Churchill Theatre, Bromley

20Mar

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London

Titanic The Musical – Churchill Theatre, Bromley

This captivating moving production directed by Thom Southerland, story by Peter Stone with lyrics by Maury Yeston starts with the story of inspiration, a yearning for the American dream for the third class immigrants’; an opportunity, for the voyeuristic second class passengers to rub elbows and be socially accepted amongst their first class peers; a rite of passage for the first class to be a part of this historic moment and immerse themselves in the expected decadence and privileges. To the contrast of excitement and gayety from the young galley boys and girls, crew, and engine room men facing a voyage of toil and longing to be home once again. The company’s ensemble of ‘Godspeed Titanic’ was heart rendering and powerful. This set the scene of what was to be a dignified, emotional and...

16Feb

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London

Graceland – Royal Court Theatre

Graceland by Ava Wong Davies and directed by Anna Himali Howard and Izzy Rabey features the character Nina a British Chinese woman in her mid-20 who falls in love with a wealthy white man who captivates her attention at an ‘optimistic’ Barbecue. Nina is played by Sabrina Wu who gives a convincing performance as she engages with the audience and addresses the absent other people depicting her up and down relationship with her ‘man’, which ends badly for her. The setting, an attic based room with minimal light, bed, duvet and pillow within an earthy mud filled space that Nina moves into throughout the play which creates moments of drama, when acting out the unfolding conflict and her sheer tenacity in what is, ever changing life events. Her turbulent relationship and self- depreciating b...

<strong>Vix & Helen – Vault Festival</strong>

2Feb

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London

Vix & Helen – Vault Festival

Performed in a small brick theatre in the vault located under waterloo station creating an atmosphere; an intimate feeling of being alone with the characters. The stage set out to replicate a school locker room, simplistic but instantly recognisable. The play centred on a bemusing incident involving Vix played by Heloise Spring and Helen (Lucy Sherraft) younger siblings. Vix and Helen are friends however their friendship is intertwined with complexities of family life, their friendship and feelings of how they are perceived by each other as well as the outside world. Their story is peppered with confliction and expression of thoughts created by the turmoil they feel about themselves and how they are perceived by others. Helen is tall and effervescent in her approach to life unlike V...