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MORE than £400,000 has been awarded to a vital Storyhouse Chester initiative that provides life-changing support for young people. The Westminster Foundation is providing the funding for Storyhouse’s award-winning Young Leaders Programme in a commitment that will span five years. The initiative provides young people, including those who conventionally face barriers to employment, with work experience and a range of employability skills in the creative industries. Former participants of the course have included young people at risk of homelessness, disabled young people and young carers. The Duke of Westminster, chair of the Westminster Foundation, who recently joined a virtual meeting with some of Storyhouse’s young leaders, said: Young people have been hit hard by the pandemic, as opportunities previously open to them have quickly disappeared. ....
Antigone with fish fingers. Oedipus as a corkscrew. And a Greek tragedy that becomes a Greek salad. Every tragedy needs its satyr play. After drama welcome relief is needed. After a hard day watching humans wrestle with the gods of Olympus, what the good people of ancient Greece needed was massive phalluses, the clangour of drums and horns, and actors in ridiculous goatish masks to ease the holy terror they had experienced over a whole day (usually three plays’ worth) of drama. Fast forward two thousand years. When Peter Hall and John Barton brought their nine-hour Trojan War epic Tantalus to The Barbican in 2001, it came with no such final treat. The 12-hour original had been trimmed after its première in Denver the year before, the two titans of classical theatre had roundly fallen out over the changes, and there was no space left for a theatrical joke to lighten the atmosphere. ....
He was in the spotlight for more than 40 years, a legend of Scottish stage and screen. Andy Gray, hailed as an exceptional actor and entertainer, has died at the age of 61 - leaving the Scottish entertainment industry devastated. The Perth-born performer had previously been diagnosed with blood cancer in 2018, but returned to the stage to appear in the King s panto the following year. National treasure Gray, well known for his role as Chancer in the 1980s comedy City Lights, also starred in Naked Video, River City and was a beloved regular at the Edinburgh Festival - not to mention inimitable sidekick at the King s annual pantomime. ....
Submitting. Gray, who started his acting career at Perth Theatre in the late 1970s, shot to fame in the 1980s with the BBC Scotland sitcom City Lights, playing Chancer, the sidekick of Willie Melvin, who was played by Gerard Kelly. Reruns of the show, which also featured Dave Anderson, Iain McColl, Elaine C Smith and Jonathan Watson, were only recently broadcast by BBC Scotland again. Gray, who joined the cast of River City in 2016, had previously battled blood cancer after being diagnosed in 2018, but made a comeback in the King’s panto the following year. More recently he had fought against a Covid positive diagnosis. ....