I was one of many people who walked up the ‘apples and pears’ to the entrance of the old Eyemouth High School last Thursday for the opening night of Eyemouth Variety Group’s latest production. Now doing some pre-show research I quickly discovered that the show which first opened in London in 1937 wasn’t one I […]
Me & My Girl – 2011
Get ready to do the Lambeth Walk at Eyemouth musical
You will be pleased to know in this current cold weather that ‘The Sun Has Got His Hat On’. This is at least is according to Eyemouth Variety Group who will be singing the song in their production of ‘Me and My Girl’ which will be performed from March 10-12 in the old Eyemouth High […]
Magic of the lamp rubs off on Eyemouth Youth Theatre Group and their audiences
Christmas pantomime is all about men dressing as women, women acting as men and plenty of audience participation. We get to shout at baddies and laugh at corny jokes. What better way of helping us to forget the dreary credit crunch, Wayne Rooney’s indecent wage packet and of course The X Factor than a helping […]
Eyemouth community theatre group celebrates winning national honours
AS they get ready to present their latest pantomime ‘Aladdin’, Eyemouth & District Community Youth Theatre Group were handed a prestigious drama honour last week. The group were given the Utopia Youth Award at the National Operatic and Dramatic Association’s Annual General Meeting on Saturday, October 30. The AGM brought together over 500 representatives from […]
Annie 2010
Eyemouth Variety Group’s ‘Annie’ a great success
It is conventional for the reviewer to point out the flaws in a production but in Annie I can scarcely recall any. The laundry man collided with the screen on his way in and the trumpeter started trumpeting before the announcements were over but they were first night wobbles. I also thought that some of […]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! What a marvellous show at Eyemouth OCTOBER arrives, the clocks go back, the rain starts to fall and the temperature drops and we all begin to wonder where the next warm, exciting, colourful and vibrant experience will come from. Those who were lucky enough to see the Eyemouth and District Community […]
Oliver has audience asking for more!
OLIVER Twist is a sombre novel so you would expect it to make a sombre musical. How sombre depends on how the cast handles it: too jaunty and it loses its point; too slow and it becomes dreary. That is the risk for a story that has a boy sleeping among coffins and ends with […]
