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Make sure you see The Tempest at Nottingham Playhouse The Nottingham Playhouse and Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham production is to be staged in the open air of Nottingham’s Playhouse Forecourt from August 4 to 7. Adapted and directed by Martin Berry, this alfresco theatre experience will feature a cast of four Nottingham actors – Charlotte East, Peter Watts, Josie White and Edward Watchman – who will bring to life the madcap characters of Shakespeare’s final play. This action-packed 80 minute version of Shakespeare’s most magical play uses just a few props and some speedy c...

A POPULAR councillor has had a community centre named in his honour after years of service to the town. The Western Community Centre in Somerset Street, Rodbourne Cheney, has been renamed the Des Moffatt Western Community Centre by Central Swindon North Parish Council. It recognises the work of the long-serving Swindon borough ward councillor for the area, who was also chairman of the parish committee and died in late 2019. Chairman of the parish council’s finance and general purpose committee Kevin Small is a fellow Labour borough councillor. He said: “Des was very closely asso...

People living on the Shrivenham Road on the approach to Highworth say they are gobsmacked at a decision by councillors to give the green light to a 250-home estate. Even the members of Swindon Borough Council’s planning committee, which gave outline consent to the plan by Gladman Developments, did so with visible reluctance and resignation. The concerns of residents and councillors focused not just on the narrowness and danger presented by the road just south of Highworth's centre, but the impact on schools and GP’s surgeries. Worries about the road and the risk increased traffic ...

"The ship grows its own crew." "If… it's a ship. If… they're crew." Hell yes – some extra dark space sci-fi! Blindsight is an incredible short film made by multiple collaborators. It took four year to complete and it's now ready to watch - thanks to tip from Neill Blomkamp; this does seem like something his Oats Studios would make as a proof of concept. A small team is sent from Earth to investigate evidence of an alien species and discovers they cannot trust their senses to reflect the reality of the world around them. Blindsight is a short "created by a collaborative group of design...

The Egg. Artemis describes life in the moon-based city, Artemis, from the first-person perspective of Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara, the moon's only smuggler of contraband. Jazz is - like Weir's protagonists tend to be - extraordinarily intelligent; she quickly masters every study or task she turns her attention to. Unlike Weir's other protagonists, however, Jazz rejects the social pressure to "do something with herself" by using her vast intellect in productive service to Artemis' greater social order. She's constantly on the wrong side of the law, although the "law" on Artemis is mostly just a sin...