The best thing about going home, wherever you’re from, is that you actually get to do the thing you always say you’ll do when you travel: just let life happen around you and soak up the atmosphere. Being from Cornwall, I never realised just how much it’s viewed as a ‘destination’. Beautiful, yes, and increasingly … More 3 days in Cornwall: photodiary
The Cornish love being Cornish. I write this from my London bed, with a wooden ‘Cornish, born and bred’ sign hanging off one bedpost and looking at the mini Grey Goose bottles with Cornish flags sticking out of them. Just like the time someone told you Matt Bellamy from Muse does a really annoying inhalation … More The perfect long weekend in Cornwall
In Cornwall we’re blessed with what is, in all likelihood, the most beautiful theatre in the world. That might sound like hyperbole, but it’s a simple truth, The Minack is unrivalled. It is easy to get lost in the sea view, but Trebiggan’s Cider With Rosie is the first show I have seen at the venue for … More Trebiggan Productions – Cider With Rosie
Something didn’t quite sit right about A Mad World My Masters at the Hall for Cornwall. With English Touring Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company at the helm, there was a feeling that this would be a night to remember. I suppose, in a way, it was. There was much to admire about this production, … More English Touring Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company – A Mad World My Masters
A one-man Dracula could have been a recipe for disaster, but this is no ordinary one man. Fresh from their scintillating solo Great Expectations, Rabbit Theatre and Dave Mynne have returned with more masterful storytelling, in a captivating show. Mynne’s performance is excellent: truly absorbing, and seamlessly flitting between his expertly crafted characters. It would be … More Rabbit Theatre – Dracula
I’m not a punk. I’m not rebellious. I took my seat fifteen minutes early for Silly Boys’ opening night of their latest show, and spent a moment admiring their simple, slightly haphazard looking set. In the centre, a step-ladder and white screen, debris strewn in front, and surrounded by lighting stands held together with hastily … More Silly Boys – Two Punks and a Tandem
‘No one is equipped to review me,’ stated Stewart Lee on Thursday evening at the Hall for Cornwall. That isn’t going to stop me trying. He entered the stage (complete with two flags of St. Piran, as the day dictated) in front of a sell-out crowd, and proceeded to explain his set-list. Half an hour … More Stewart Lee – Room With A Stew
Dydh da from Kernow (hello from Cornwall)! To commiserate the fact that I am now closer to being 30 than 20, I decided to hole up in the motherland for a long weekend, lick my wounds and generously apply anti-wrinkle cream. Woe betide me, I’m old. When I went backpacking around Japan for my 21st, … More Kacho Falmouth: beautiful Japanese food in Cornwall
So winter draws on. You’d think with the emergence of daffodils, spring is well on the way, but no. It’s cold, we’re still in scarves and my extremities remain deeply miffed. It’s no weather to be outside, but being at home night after night is no fun either (and I hear the new series of … More Five (Cornish) reasons to be cheerful
Every piece of Cornish theatre I caught in 2014, I knew at least one member of the cast or crew. I didn’t love every production, and then comes the inevitable, dreaded question, “What did you think?” So, how honest is too honest? It’s so difficult to give constructive criticism of show where you know people, and where … More No one’s a critic: Cornwall, criticism and complacency
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