Way Out West End

It's been another packed week of theatre and theatre-folk, while I've been trying frantically to keep up with my training regime. It's mad really, when I consider that a couple of years ago somebody asked me how often I train - how I laughed! I had always imagined that one 'trained' for something - I just swam lengths of the pool to allow myself more cake. However, I am training now, or rather it's a more formalised way of working out with instruction and advice. Here's hoping....anyway, I digress so back to theatre talk. 

Of course the biggest news this week has been the announcement that The Full Monty will be closing much earlier than was scheduled - much earlier. On the back of Stephen Ward and From Here To Eternity also closing early this was very much news as critics had recieved it warmly but felt it was going to be a popular hit no matter what they wrote/tweeted/blogged.

Some of the team have started publicly apportioning blame - mainly at the producers - but ultimately we have to assume that the tickets simply weren't selling. A Facebook campaign to stop it from closing is all well and good but tbh, it's pointless without the sales to back it up. Personally I find it interesting that nobody appears to be blaming a recession for a lack of tickets sales on this project and others. 

In other news, I caught Invincible at the Orange Tree and Away From Home at the Jermyn Street last week. Invincible is a 'must-see' and in all honesty, I could easily imagine it coming into town. Away From Home I found slightly derivative - I saw two one-man plays on the subject of football and theatre last year at the Lost. It did however hammer home the point that even the Church and the Armed Forces are making headway where sexual equality is concerned so why are the FA doing sweet FA about the problem.