The Sorcerer’s Apprentice filmed at Southwark Playhouse | Review
February 26, 2021 Last updated:
March 14, 2021
This production of
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice has nothing to do with the 2010 Walt Disney motion picture of the same name. It is a show that really needs to be experienced in person: the atmosphere that the staging and music create doesn’t, despite a sterling effort from the production team, come across on screen as well as it would in the theatre. But, at the end of the day, it is better (in the circumstances at the time of writing) to experience it this way than not at all.
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2020 was terrible, but the worst may be yet to come: the West End s closed Lyric Theatre
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So the theatre industry is gritting its teeth once again. As we plunge once more into national lockdown, an anonymous theatre producer confided to me: “It feels like we’ve gone back from recovery mode to survival mode”.
Certainly the implications of the virus variant(s) and questions about vaccine roll-out are enough to daunt even the most battle-hardened in the industry which has been more or less shut down since London was plunged into tier 3 in mid-December. I asked several leading players about a timeline in terms of reopening, first with social distancing then the holy grail of reverting to the norm of this time last year. “We are as in the dark as everybody now,” confesses Julian Bird, chief executive of SOLT (the Society of London Theatre) and UK Theatre (the key body for regional playhouses).