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The current world record for the largest functional Christmas cracker was pulled at Ley Hill, near Chesham, on December 20, 2001. The record has…
IT was rather distressing to see the UK Business Secretary, appropriately enough dressed in a business suit, when he arrived at a site in northern…
The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio | reviews, news & interviews The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio The Dancing Master, Buxton International Festival review - doing it on the radio Snappy rhythms and lovely tunes make a ‘lost’ opera by Malcolm Arnold live again by Robert BealeMonday, 12 July 2021 How would you solve the problems inherent in a production of Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master, bearing in mind the need for social distancing for performers, comparatively miniscule budg...
Political correctness has unfairly consigned this innuendo-packed farce to obscurity. Is there a director brave enough to bring it back?
Died: March 30, 2021 MYRA Frances, who has died of cancer aged 78, was an actress who became a taboo-busting pioneer when she shared British television’s first romantic kiss between women. That was in Girl (1974), James Robson’s play for BBC Birmingham’s Second City Firsts series of short standalone dramas by relatively new writers. Frances played Christine Harvey, the seemingly stern army corporal who appears opposite Alison Steadman’s discharged pregnant squaddie, Jackie. As Jackie prepares to leave, the pair’s illicit tryst is revealed in a serious study of the effects th...