Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

Drum roll for the inaugural Chatterbox Film, TV  and Theatre awards 2022.  This is a really random selection and I  am sure I have forgotten some great stuff but these are the bits that have stuck in my memory.  You may be relieved I have forgotten some things, as this has turned out to be far too long, like every award ceremony you have ever seen.  May contain spoilers. Best TV Moment It was a good year for TV moments. The nominees are: Stranger Things: There were a lot of great moments in series 4.  I almost picked  Kate Bush saves Max, but really that's probably more a group of moments.  Or I could have picked one of the moments where poor Will has his romantic hopes dashed.  Instead though I have picked the iconic moment in the finale of series 4, with Eddie Munson's heroic playing of Metallica's Master of Puppets.  The game changer in the battle, sacrificing himself for his friends, and also spot on brand for the metalhead/ dun...

 I read Orlando as a teenager but haven’t been back since.  I remembered it being a feminist treatise but of course revisiting it now, the sexual and gender identity aspects feel just as important.  We tried out some cheap seats in a box, and I was a bit worried that we would have a repeat of the Noises Off debacle back in 2012 when we could only see half the stage.  In fact this turned out to be a tiny box with just the two seats that we could move about, which meant we could lean over if we really wanted to see something tucked away, so it worked out well in the end.   So, what about the play you ask? Well, it opens with 9 Virginia Woolfs (Wolves?) on stage, a chorus maybe, representing different selves I guess, but it allows for an entertaining dialogue when deciding what should happen to Orlando next.  Having an onstage dresser in the form of Deborah Findlay also gave us a narrator and guide to run alongside the Virginia chorus to keep Orlando and...