#Luke Plimmer

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An Enchanted Evening

INTO THE WOODS Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Sunday 30thApril 2023 Tackling this masterwork by the late, great Stephen Sondheim is no easy task.  It requires a large cast of excellent actor-singers to pull off its dissonant melodies and to breathe life into the often complex and witty lyrics.  I’m happy to report that the Crescent rises to the challenge and succeeds.  Impressively. The story…

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Back in 2011, as part of the 25th anniversary, the BBC released this Casualty press pack that includes a list of regulars who have died:

(EWART PLIMMER DIED IN SERIES 3 YOU FOOLS.) Getting a job at this hospital is so deadly. This was 13 years ago, there are more now… this doesn’t even account for the Holby deaths. Don’t Work Here!!

Also: “Drowned trying to kill Luke and Charlie.” No notes.

And I like the symmetry of Sandra at the start and Polly at end? I hope they kill someone in an if-you-squint Sandra-esque way right before the 50th anniversary as well! (I say, presuming we will make the 50th.)

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Meet our Prologue Ambassadors: from top left to right

Abbie Cadman, Charlotte Coster, Luke Ofield, Grace Cowtan, Dan Cox, Maria Santoro, Sophie Foster, Rebecca Mixter, Caitlin Plimmer

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Straight Acting

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 17th August, 2022 Less of a musical and more of a revue, this show which has enjoyed one of the longest runs in American theatre history, charts, through unconnected scenes, songs and vignettes, the course of love (true, or otherwise) of heterosexual people.  When theatre holds up a mirror to life, it either validates…

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Oranges Are The Only Fruit

Oranges Are The Only Fruit

NELL GWYNN

Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Sunday 15th September, 2019

  The Crescent’s new season opens with this banger of a production from director Dewi Johnson.  The Ron Barber Studio is transformed to evoke a Restoration playhouse, with gilded columns, heraldic emblems and decorative friezes.  A purpose-built thrust stage puts us very much in the playhouse, while lending an intimacy to the…