Rebecca Foster, Author at North West End UK

Co-founded in 2017 by Jessica Broderick and Douglas Watts, Show Choir is the UK’s number one musical theatre community choir collective, with hundreds of members in multiple groups across Southwest England. This is their first year at the Fringe - not that you would be able to tell. This was a slick debut - very well-rehearsed with sublime four-part harmony and excellent use of diminuendo and crescendo. Expertly conducted by the choir’s founders, whose energy was infectious, the choir were clearly confident under their direction. There was a small amount of choreography in some numbers which was simple, but effective and attainable for all singers, maintaining the high standard of performance. The show took us through the last 100 years of musicals, picking a number from each of ...

Grief does crazy things to people and Yes, We’re Related explores the different reactions of two sisters to the loss of their mother on the first-year anniversary of her death. The play starts with the three actors emerging from the audience and raving whilst in squirrel masks. It was an entertaining, albeit odd, start to the show which I Sara wakes from sleeping in a tent in the siblings’ mother’s old house before her serious sister, Saskia, and her dopey boyfriend, Mark, arrive to help set up the party Saskia has organised to mark the first death anniversary. When questioned about the noise coming from her bedroom, Sara confesses that there is a squirrel living in there. The play suggests that the squirrel is a metaphor for their dead mum as Sara discusses not wanting to let...

Author: Rebecca Foster

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