THIS dazzling show gave us two for the price of one. We were delighted by the children and thoroughly entertained by the adults. The adults in the form of the ugly sisters (May Jappy, Maureen Gillie) and the evil stepmother (Christine Henderson) hammed it up beautifully, creating a riot of colour and rattling off the […]

LAST year when I said I thought Eyemouth Variety Group could tackle My Fair Lady, I meant it as a compliment; I didn’t mean that they should actually attempt it. When I heard that they had chosen to do it, I wondered whether I should go into hiding. My Fair Lady is a daunting task. […]

THERE are two kinds of musical: one that carries the cast along; the other that is carried along by the cast – Viva Mexico! is of the second sort. The plot is corny, the dialogue is wooden, there are too many songs, the end is in the middle and it lasts too long. It could […]

DO not believe the stories about Robinson Crusoe being all alone on a desert island. In this show the place was heaving with people including a Man Friday who turned out to be either James (or Brooke)Bond or Campbell McNeil whichever you prefer. And what an attractive bunch they were. Robinson was played precisely by […]

THIS show was a delight. It is an old-fashioned musical: feel-good, no hidden message and gloriously politically incorrect. The plot is thin but the songs, humour and larger than life characters carry it along. The two leads were nicely balanced. Lynn Manderston (Annie) combined the rough tough gun-slinging backwoodswoman with the dreamy-eyed weak-kneed lovebird to […]