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What is this I hear you ask? Well today saw quite possibly, what we believe to be the first ever Les Miserables Sing-A-Long on Twitter, jointly created by us (@publicreviews) and The Manchester Palace and Opera House Theatres (@Palaceandopera) to celebrate the 25th Anniversary production of Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s classic musical landing in Manchester for the next 4 weeks. At 3pm on the 19th January 2010 – lots of tweeters joined in the fun by posting their favourite lyric from Les Miserables on Twitter here are just a few of the lyrics posted during the #lesmissingatweetathon – can you recognise the songs they are from? If you missed out on the fun its still not to late to join in just post on twitter your song lyric and include #lesmissingatweetathon or post your favourite in the comments box below! @theatreJunki In my life, there are so many questions and answers that somehow seem wrong. @chilina And tell cossette I love her and I’ll see her when I wake. @ f1roro From the table in the corner, They could see a world reborn, And they rose with voices ringing, I can hear them now! @RealLaineee And although I know that he is blind, still I say, there’s a way for us. @samdowling There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes! @JohnnyJP Everybody raise a glass, raise it up the b***ds a**se! @Wendy_a A single look and then I knew. These are words he’ll never say! @greenlife182 When little people fight we’ve got some bite So never kick a dog Because he’s just a pup @mzlondon In the rain, the pavement shines like silver; all the lights are misty in the river. With both of the organisers pitching the same song (what a strange coincidence) as their favourite song @publicreviews so [...]

Director: Baba Israel Reviewer: Ruth Lovett Contact Young Actors Company (CYAC) have embarked on a mission to incorporate the 21st Century obsession with social networking in to the traditional world of theatre to highlight how the world may appear to have smaller and better connected but simultaneously more complex and confusing with the lines between friends, acquaintances and relationships becoming blurred and distorted due to the image we create of ourselves online. The story follows Samuel who moves to the USA and uses various websites such as Twitter and Facebook to communicate with friends, family and girl he really fancies. Samuel and his friends demonstrate how easy it is to project an image of the person you would like to be seen as online and even re-invent yourself if you feel too anonymous which these days is worse than being unpopular. The story also focuses on Samuel’s grandmother’s introduction to computers and the internet and how we treat computers now as we are so used to having them in our lives. We have become inpatient with them, expect far too much of them perhaps and forget about the human input element of using computers. Throughout the performance the cast interact with a live Twitter feed and work the tweets in to the performance with varying degrees of success. The graphics and interactive screens and use of video are cleverly done and works with great success. All credit to Gino Evans for working this in to the performance in an effective and tasteful way. Theatre goers must remember and appreciate that this is a young cast who have been heavily involved in creating this piece and at times, the story does not run as smoothly as it should and at times, the piece is disjointed and difficult to follow. All the [...]