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Live Theatre To Be Broadcast In Cinema
Higher Visions is proud to announce the launch of the National Theatre Live Series during Valentine’s Weekend at the Neptune Cinema in Dockyard. Between February through June Bermudians will have the opportunity to view four professionally produced performances on screen live from the UK. National Theatre Live is an initiative to broadcast live performances... Read more of this article
Mamma Mia! Take A Chance on ABBA Show!
[Review by Alan C Smith] The curtain rose on the 2011 Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts last night [Jan. 18]. And tribute band ARRIVAL from Sweden entertained an enthralled and very appreciative audience with the music of ABBA. I remember when I was younger, and cooler, thinking of ABBA as a bit of a joke. It was decidedly uncool to like the campy... Read more of this article
Festival To Offer E-Programmes
The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts is turning over a new leaf this year, and using technology to offer more environmentally friendly programmes. Festival-goers in 2011 will be able to read the full performance programmes on their phones. This move to electronic programmes saves printing over 12,000 multi-page programmes. When you arrive at... Read more of this article
BMDS Checks In To “Fawlty Towers”
Don’t mention “Fawlty Towers” — unless you’re in the mood for an upcoming Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society production which cuts extremely close to the funny bone. Following on from the success of its adaptation of scripts from the Britcom “Dad’s Army” last year, the BMDS will be staging a portmanteau... Read more of this article
Bermuda Exile’s Reputation Restored
Sir Terence Rattigan was a cultural exile in Bermuda as well as a tax exile, The Daily Telegraph” is reporting. The British playwright’s critical fall from grace in the 1960s was every bit as much a deciding factor in making the island his home in 1967 as tax savings he could make on fees for the screenplays he turned his hand... Read more of this article
Bermuda Actor Praised for Musical Role
Bermudian actor Daren A. Herbert steals the dark-themed show in a new Toronto revival of the Broadway musical ”Parade”, a meditation on race, religion and bigotry in the pre-First World War American South by “Driving Miss Daisy” writer Alfred Uhry and composer Jason Robert Brown The winner of two Tony Awards for best book and... Read more of this article
Bermudian Actor’s Play Was A Black UK First
According to a British theatrical historian a musical play staged in 1909 by Bermudian actor/playwright Ernest Trimingham was the first entirely black-themed production ever staged in the United Kingdom. The Bermudian’s play debuted more than 25 years before legendary Trinidadian author, political activist and cricket historian C.L.R. James... Read more of this article
UK Museum Stages Mary Prince Drama
The Museum of London is launching a one-hour dramatic reenactment of the life of Bermuda slave Mary Prince for visiting school children. An actor will be portraying the Bermudian woman whose 1831 memoir helped to galvanise the abolitionist movement and end the institution of chattel slavery in in British territories two years later in a production... Read more of this article
Local Actor Takes Mark Twain Show On Road
Shortly before his death at the age of 75 in 1910, Mark Twain said other people could go to heaven if they wanted to — he’d rather stay right here in Bermuda. And in a sense he did. The American humourist, novelist and moral philosopher — who spent much of the final years of his life in Bermuda – has been portrayed for the... Read more of this article
Earl Cameron’s Life And Legendary Times
A simple yearning to see the world which existed beyond Bermuda’s shores prompted legendary local actor Earl Cameron to embark on what became a life-long odyssey of self-discovery, breaking down barriers and learning, he told a British newspaper. The pioneering actor who shattered the colour bar in British film and TV in the 1950s —... Read more of this article
Photos: 2010 CedarBridge Christmas Play
The Christmas season started ‘Bermuda-style’ last night [Dec 8], as Cedarbridge Academy students put on their Christmas Play “Eh Ehn Bye! Santa’s Too Big!,” which is the Bermudian take on “Oh No! Santa’s Too Big!!”. Written and directed by Patricia Nesbitt, the comedy show started with Santa, along with Mama Claus,... Read more of this article
“Firebird” Ready To Soar
The curtain goes up on the Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society’s annual Christmas pantomime on Thurs [Dec 8], a zany take on the Russian fable “The Firebird”. Promising to be a riot of a riot of songs, colour and fun-filled family entertainment, the production is being directed by Bermudian theatre veteran Carol Birch and... Read more of this article
Legendary Actor Vists With Premier
93-year-old Bermudian actor Earl Cameron recently met with Premier Paula Cox while on a visit back to the island from his base in the United Kingdom. The barrier breaking actor is pictured below with the Premier and his wife Barbara Cameron. Mr. Cameron, arguably the most successful actor Bermuda has ever produced, is a legendary figure who broke down... Read more of this article
Earl Cameron Documentary Planned
A British businessman has decided legendary Bermudian actor Earl Cameron is long overdue for his close-up — and is raising funds for a feature-length documentary about the trailblazing performer who broke the colour bar for black entertainers in UK film and television. Born in Pembroke, Mr. Cameron, 93, moved to Britain prior to World War Two... Read more of this article
Bermudian Actor in Witherspoon Comedy
Coming fresh off a role in the summer comedy hit “Hot Tub Time Machine”, Bermudian actor Daren A. Herbert is now set to appear alongside Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and TV comedienne Chelsea Handler in an upcoming romantic comedy. Currently in production in Vancouver, British Columbia the film “This Means War” is about two... Read more of this article
Bermuda Theatre Team Dishes Dirt on Soaps
A Bermudian lawyer and a former Bermuda music teacher and composer have teamed up in London on the new musical “Legacy Falls,” a production promising to dish the dirt on what goes on beyond the scenes at an American soap opera. Bermudian Warren Cabral, managing partner of the London office of local law firm Appleby, is serving as executive... Read more of this article
