At the request of my dad, here are a few reviews of my recent performances.
My review I'm most proud of was in the January/February 2007 Opera Now Magazine:
"Candide is a bizarre and wonderful hotch-potch: its hero travels round the world from Westphalia to Eldorado to Venice. On the way, characters die and come back to life and, depending on how you do your counting, there are nearly a hundred separate musical episodes. It needs a director with clear vision and a keen feel for staging, and in Welsh National Youth Opera's production, Nik Ashton proved himself to be just the man to take on this sprawling monster of a musical: 'comic operetta' as it says in the books, but nothing could be more misleading. Candide is savage: brittle with cynicism, its humour is barbed but its ending is genuinely moving.
Much depends on the actor tackling the double-role of Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss. From the start Alan Winner set the pace, differentiating beautifully between Narrator and Optimist-Philosopher both in voice and movement. He has a natural stage presence, and a confidence that suggests the theatre is his home.
A perfect performance? As near as damn it, and no allowances need be made for the young cast. Quite simply, they delivered. Thank you WNYO: this for me was one of the musical highlights of last year. - Robert Dunnett
here's a website of my most recent production's reviews...
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_headline=review-rakes-progress&method=full&objectid=19462296&siteid=50082-name_page.html#story_continue
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_headline=review-the-rake-8217-s-progress%26method=full%26objectid=19482065%26siteid=50082-name_page.html#story_continue
(couldn't get the link up, and I'm late for work!)
So there's a little taster.
And if you want to see something very exciting, go to www.whenmidnightstrikes.com
I have recently been cast in the first professional production of "When Midnight Strikes" in London at the Finborough Theatre.
I've just finished reading the script for the first time and I'm so excited I can't begin to describe what I'm feeling!!!
My review I'm most proud of was in the January/February 2007 Opera Now Magazine:
"Candide is a bizarre and wonderful hotch-potch: its hero travels round the world from Westphalia to Eldorado to Venice. On the way, characters die and come back to life and, depending on how you do your counting, there are nearly a hundred separate musical episodes. It needs a director with clear vision and a keen feel for staging, and in Welsh National Youth Opera's production, Nik Ashton proved himself to be just the man to take on this sprawling monster of a musical: 'comic operetta' as it says in the books, but nothing could be more misleading. Candide is savage: brittle with cynicism, its humour is barbed but its ending is genuinely moving.
Much depends on the actor tackling the double-role of Voltaire/Dr. Pangloss. From the start Alan Winner set the pace, differentiating beautifully between Narrator and Optimist-Philosopher both in voice and movement. He has a natural stage presence, and a confidence that suggests the theatre is his home.
A perfect performance? As near as damn it, and no allowances need be made for the young cast. Quite simply, they delivered. Thank you WNYO: this for me was one of the musical highlights of last year. - Robert Dunnett
here's a website of my most recent production's reviews...
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_headline=review-rakes-progress&method=full&objectid=19462296&siteid=50082-name_page.html#story_continue
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_headline=review-the-rake-8217-s-progress%26method=full%26objectid=19482065%26siteid=50082-name_page.html#story_continue
(couldn't get the link up, and I'm late for work!)
So there's a little taster.
And if you want to see something very exciting, go to www.whenmidnightstrikes.com
I have recently been cast in the first professional production of "When Midnight Strikes" in London at the Finborough Theatre.
I've just finished reading the script for the first time and I'm so excited I can't begin to describe what I'm feeling!!!
