My favourite memory of CFT would be seeing Frantic Assembly’s ‘Lovesong’ the first play to show me how effectively theatre could influence people’s emotions.
From: Alex Wilcox
Other comments: Chichester Festival Theatre was the first theatre I had any exposure to. Living only a few miles away, in Southbourne, it has been a great boon growing up being interested in theatre.
1. Fantastic staging and casting – a production that I will remember for a long time.
From: Sian
2. I can not choose between ‘Singing in the Rain’ with Adam Cooper & the delectable Scarlett Strallen and ‘Sweeney Todd’ with the brilliant Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball plus some incredible scenery. They were two incredible productions in the same summer and then both of them deservedly going straight up to the West End. These shows were so good that when you left the theatre you would have gone straight back in and seen them all over again.
From: Ralph Anslee
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead… I loved that. I love the play and I thought the production was excellent, absolutely excellent. It was done as if it was absolutely fresh and happening for the first time on the stage that night. I mean sometimes you can see plays and you know that they’ve been doing it for weeks and every night they’ve been churning this stuff out. And it’s a play that’s been around for a long time. But even despite that, they did it in a really fresh way.
From: Peter
Read about the use of water and stage design in Singin’ In The Rain.
1. This was such a wonderful production, full of energy and talented performers. The creative team involved created a masterpiece.
From: Luna
2. Uplifting,joyous fun innovative production staging, great choreography, energetic committed cast.
From: Keith Seston
3. I can not choose between ‘Singing in the Rain’ with Adam Cooper & the delectable Scarlett Strallen and ‘Sweeney Todd’ with the brilliant Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball plus some incredible scenery. They were two incredible productions in the same summer and then both of them deservedly going straight up to the West End. These shows were so good that when you left the theatre you would have gone straight back in and seen them all over again.
From: Ralph Ansley
4. Best show was “Singin’ in the Rain”.
From: Anon
5. The staging of Singing in the Rain. The water and rain scene.
From: Anon