Theatre / “Mamma Mia!”, Free Rain Theatre, at The Q, Queanbeyan, until May 8. Reviewed by
BILL STEPHENS.
FOR anyone who feels they couldn’t bear to listen to another ABBA song, that shouldn’t prevent them from going to see Free Rain Theatre’s exuberant new production of “Mamma Mia!”.
Although “Mamma Mia!” features about two dozen ABBA songs, they have been interwoven into an appealing story about a young woman, Sophie (Charlotte Gearside) who is about to marry. Sophie decides that she needs to know who her father is. Her attempts to glean this information from her free-spirited mother, Donna (Louiza Blomfield) have been unsuccessful. Having discovered her mother’s diary, Sophie invites three of the most likely suspects to her wedding in the hope of discovering which is her father.
The refurbished Rusten House today. Photo: Helen Musa
IT’s UNESCO World Art Day tomorrow (April 15) and members of the Queanbeyan arts community will have a sneak peek at exhibitions being hung for the official opening of the Rusten House Arts Centre next Thursday (April 22). The galleries will include a history of the historic Rusten House, now refurbished to become a home for the arts. At Collett Street, Queanbeyan (located on the grounds of the hospital).
“‘TO be or not to be’ means something entirely different when you’re 20 to when you’re 80,” says John Bell, who’ll be at the Playhouse until tomorrow, April 15, in “One Man In His Time: John Bell and Shakespeare”. Bookings here canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
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A pilot scheme in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) in the United Kingdom will see drones used to help councils reduce litter.
BCP Council is partnering with the environmental charity Hubbub, startup Ellipsis Earth and fast food brand McDonald’s – which is funding the trial – to use drone data to inform the placement of bins, street cleaning schedules and behaviour change campaigns around litter.
The partners have called the pilot “the most scientifically robust litter survey ever undertaken in the UK”.
Drone imagery is processed by Ellipsis Earth software to automatically and rapidly detect discarded litter items and quantify them by type and brand to create litter heatmaps. This data, along with expert analysis and recommendations, will be shared with BCP council, Hubbub and McDonald’s, to help them better understand and prevent littering.
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By George Nott2021-04-06T15:45:00+01:00
The Easter weekend saw public parks up and down the country covered in plastic wrappers, drinks bottles and takeaway containers – the eased lockdown restrictions seemingly taken as a licence to litter. Barely a single beauty spot escaped untrashed, except two parks in Nottingham, and only because they had been closed by the council to avoid the “appalling scenes” in the weeks proceeding.
Throughout the pandemic, litter levels have “rocketed” in parks and the countryside, according to CPRE, the countryside charity. It commissioned a YouGov survey that found more than a third of Brits had seen an increase in litter near their home since the start of the pandemic. And its survey of parks in Essex found nine out of 10 in the county covered in packaging litter, with 43% of the sites strewn with discarded alcohol containers.