Unless you have been watching Suzanne Shaw and Greg Rusedski in Dancing On Ice recently, the chances are you've never seen Beauty and the Beast on skates.
The grimy, disease-ridden streets of Victorian London will fill the Rose Theatre this week when Kingston's very own musical, The Ragged Child, returns to the stage.
It is just as well that Stephane Annelli looks good in white. The Laine Theatre Arts graduate has sported a lot of it over his 10-year career, from Tony Manero's suit in Saturday Night Fever to the skintight T-shirts of his latest role at New Wimbledon Theatre.
When a mid-40s Roy Dotrice first played ageing Elizabethan John Aubrey in his one-
man play Brief Lives, the transformation involved a lot of prosthetics and a rather wispy wig.
David Harrower's raw, controversial, award-winning play Blackbird continues the Rose's impressive slate of launch projects as the Kingston theatre premieres this
production ahead of its
nationwide tour.
The last time we saw Katie McGuinness at the Orange Tree, she was corsetted up and baring her soul as the eponymous heroine of John Masefield's rural tragedy, Nan.
