Hooked on theatre when a student usher at Theatre Calgary in her native Canada, Cheryl champions not only London's West End, but also regional venues. Splitting her time between London and Wiltshire, she knows she's lucky to pick up a number of shows given first runs at Theatre Royal Bath in the West Country. She's also supports work at Salisbury Playhouse. When not happily perched in the stalls, Cheryl does corporate writing as a jobbing journalist. Cheryl also writes flash fiction and short stories (some of which has been published) and is a member of Writers' HQ, Retreat West and The Society of Authors.
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First Show:
A Chorus Line (London West End production)Favorite Show:
Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth. Mark Rylance at his best in a tragicomedy, state-of-the-nation classic.Favorite Stories:
- BWW Review: CHARLIE AND STAN, Theatre Royal Bath - Rollicking, life-affirming silent movie-style production with a live piano score and hilarious physical comedy. I saw this during Covid when I really needed cheering up – and I was not disappointed. Charlie and Stan deserves another and wider run.
- Review: JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE, Salisbury Playhouse - Riotous, laugh-out-loud-funny farce based on PG Wodehouse's novel that scooped up an Olivier. Luckily, it returned to Salisbury Playhouse for a month after touring. A play-within-a play that breaks down the fourth wall, so the audience is in the know. Great physical comedy. I was particularly charmed by Luke Barton's OTT Bertie Wooster, and Patrick Warner's savvy Jeeves, as well as other roles he gamely took on, including newt lover Gussie Fink-Nottle. You had to be there.
- Review: PHAEDRA/MINOTAUR, Theatre Royal Bath - Astonishing double bill by Deborah Warner, artistic director of Theatre Royal Bath's diminutive Ustinov Studio. First half was mezzo-soprano Christine Rice in an intimate performance of Phaedra. And in the second half, the most amazing moves from ballet dance Tommy Franzen, who's also an avid rock climber. Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup came up with gravity-defying moves for Franzen on an indoor climbing wall. Something you don't see in ballet very often.
- Review: DEAR ENGLAND, Prince Edward Theatre - I'm can't pretend to be a big football fan, but I loved James Graham's Dear England. This is the against-the-odds story of Gareth Southgate, unassuming manager of England's national team who takes his young team to great heights. The beautiful game is played out against a wider political and social backdrop. Fantastic set, staging, direction and ensemble acting. Joseph Fiennes hits the back of the net with his sympathetic portrayal of Southgate. The other reason I loved this is I talked to some football fans who had never been in a theatre before – and they loved it.
- Review: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, Opera Holland Park - Savvy, streetwise take on Leos Janacek's forest fairy tale. The perfect example of absolutely the right venue for a production. Stephen Barlow's The Cunning Little Vixen felt at home in the semi-feral greenery of Holland Park where mice scamper, peacocks strut and real foxes roam. Up-to-date references, like a forester trying to ensnare Vixen Sharp Ears with coffee and a sandwich from Pret a Manger – an inside joke, as Pret's a favourite eatery on Holland Park Avenue – made me smile.
BWW Review: THE GOOD LIFE, Theatre Royal Bath
October 15, 2021
October 15, 2021
It couldn't be more timely that the iconic 70s British TV sitcom, The Good Life - attracting 21 million viewers at its peak in 1977 - now comes to theatres.
BWW Review: THE DRESSER, Theatre Royal Bath
September 16, 2021
September 16, 2021
Theatre Royal Bath is the ideal venue for Olivier Award-winning Sir Ronald Harwood’s play about a touring rep company set in “a theatre in the English provinces”, according to the programme notes. You can’t get more English than Bath, with its honey-tinged Georgian terraces and nods to Jane Austen’s bonneted Regency times.
BWW Review: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, Opera Holland Park
August 7, 2021
August 7, 2021
Opera Holland Park offers a variety of dishes to hungry audiences throughout the season. After the meatier affair of La Traviata and concept cuisine The Cunning Little Vixen, we move on to the chocolate soufflé of The Pirates of Penzance.
BWW Review: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, Opera Holland Park
August 1, 2021
August 1, 2021
Urban dwellers know that a fox swaggering the streets like she owns them is nothing unusual these days. The merging of town and country, and the question of whether the fox is invading human territory (or is it the other way round with humans claiming zones that really belong to foxes?) are particularly relevant themes in Opera Holland Park’s homes site in verdant and semi-feral parkland.
BWW Review: L'AMICO FRITZ, Opera Holland Park
July 23, 2021
July 23, 2021
The 'to hell with tomorrow, let's revel in today' spirit was in evidence at a summer evening performance of L'Amico Fritz at Opera Holland Park, where floral summer frocks, glasses of Prosecco and upmarket picnics abounded.
BWW Review: CHARLIE AND STAN, Theatre Royal Bath
July 21, 2021
July 21, 2021
At a time when we're getting too many words, words, words from a bumbling Prime Minister and his cronies, what a relief to discover a charming, kind and life-affirming silent movie-style production that harks back to simpler times. The enticing live piano score by composer Zoe Rahman, is the dialogue, aided by the odd ditty (song arrangements by Sophie Cotton) and clever projected captions taking you back to the heydays of Victorian music hall and Hollywood silent pictures.
BWW Review: A SPLINTER OF ICE, Theatre Royal Bath
June 29, 2021
June 29, 2021
Theatre is no stranger to fictional renderings of famous get-togethers. There’s One Night in Miami, where Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali), Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown celebrate at Hampton House Hotel in 1964 – the night Clay became world heavyweight champion. Malcolm X features again in The Meeting, alongside Martin Luther King. And in Copenhagen, the previous play on at Theatre Royal Bath, Nobel-winning physicists Dane Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg have a clandestine encounter.
BWW Review: OLEANNA, Theatre Royal Bath
December 9, 2020
December 9, 2020
Can a controversial production that was staged nearly 30 years ago still feel relevant today? The answer is a resounding yes.
BWW Review: BETRAYAL, Theatre Royal Bath
October 22, 2020
October 22, 2020
In the week that Dominic West appeared in a cringe-worthy “We’re still happily married” two-hander on the doorstep of his Wiltshire home with his deceived wife, the opening of Harold Pinter’s tale of betraying loved ones couldn’t be more timely.
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