Christopher has been working with us here at Curve for the past few years as a member of our Curve Young Company (CYC) Musical Theatre; The Curve’s Youth Theatre Company and as part of our Curve Community Musical cast. Over the past two years he has been in our two community shows Sweeny Todd and Oliver in our main house and our CYC shows The Dreaming and Honk! In the studio theatre. Christopher is a brilliant young actor with massive talent and potential and has regularly taken lead roles in productions here at Curve and has received rave reviews from critics, his peers and industry invited guests. He is one of the most reliable, hardworking and trustworthy young people that I have had the privilege of working with and is a very well respected member of our CYC Company. Christopher has a wonderful talent for characterisation and comedy and is a very brave performer always willing to throw himself into a part and be fully immersed in the detail of developing a fully rounded and rich character. He has a natural honest acting ability and is a very exciting performer to work with as he responds really well to...

Annie review: I think you're gonna like it here... By Leicester Mercury | Posted: July 31, 2014 RED HOT: The community production of Annie at Curve is a professional effort, with the cast and crew deserving of plaudits all round, according to our reviewer Comments (1) Award-winning, all-American feelgood musical Annie has won its way into the hearts of legions of audience members since it opened in the 1970s. Now, Curve artistic director Paul Kerryson recreates the tale of a young girl, abandoned at an orphanage as a baby, who grows up longing for her real parents. She manages to escape the drudgery of the orphanage, under the rule of alcoholic wretch Miss Hannigan, finding a new home with a billionaire businessman Oliver Warbucks. But can Hannigan's smalltime crook brother pass himself off as Annie's real father and claim both the child and a reward? Curve's community production features more than 40 young adults, 20 children and a dog – working under a professional creative team led by Kerryson and musical director Ben Atkinson. And the result is a pacy, fun, poignant and moving tale which thankfully avoids the tendency to become mawkish and saccharine. Community shows often compromise...