October 2013 Theatre Picks

6th-25th October

Vibrant 2013 A Festival of Theatre Playwrights at the Finborough Theatre, London. In it's fifth year, with a great range of plays from an alternate reality musical to a new verbatim translation. See them here before they get hit the big time.

Big Girls don't cry: On crying at the theatre.

If you are a theatregoer, you probably had a little moment of recognition at that bit in Pretty Woman, when Julia Robert's character Vivien enjoys her first trip to the Opera and cries her eyes out (beautifully, of course). You know the bit, where an old lady asks if she enjoyed it and she replies; 'It was so good I almost peed my pants.'

Missing - Gecko, Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival.

Gecko make me feel very nostalgic. This might be a personal thing; a younger me saw their first show 'Taylor's Dummies' when bright eyed and idealistic, so seeing them gets me reminiscing, but I hazard a guess that I am not alone.  There is something about Gecko's shows that always stirs the memories. 'Missing' is a sepia tinted show.