Category Archives: Theatre

In previous posts we’ve looked at the leaders of some very serious professions (architects and psychoanalysts) and the glasses they wore.  After watching recent episodes of BBC One’s Imagine, we’re now wondering; if specs can increase seriousness can they also … Continue reading

Now on at Trafalgar Studios in London is history play Three Days in May by Ben Brown.  With Warren Clarke starring as Churchill you would be correct in thinking there is going to be some vintage eyewear 1940s style eyewear … Continue reading

Driving Miss Daisy has come to London in the form of a play, at Wyndham’s Theatre from Monday 26th September 2011 to Saturday 17th December 2011.  The story of Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish woman from the South, and Hoke … Continue reading

At the beginning of the year BBC2 featured a drama, Eric and Ernie, telling the story of the rise to fame of Eric Morcambe and Ernie Wise.  The stellar cast included Victoria Wood and Vic Reeves as the parents of … Continue reading

Robert Lindsay stars in the new play Onassis at the Novello Theatre.  The play is based on the book Nemesis by Peter Evans and is about the relationship between Onassis, his lover Maria Callas and his wife Jackie Kennedy.  Onassis … Continue reading

Whoopi Goldberg’s wax work likeness was launched at Madame Tussaud’s last Wednesday. Dressed as Mother Superior from the hit West End show Sister Act, she wears Black Eyewear Chico B.

Roope Vintage supplied the eyewear for a new play about Eric Morcambe – a celebration of Britain’s funniest man – It is scheduled for production at the Assembly Rooms at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival from 7th to 31st August … Continue reading