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...One business approaching a transfer from the second to the third generation is the Rigby Group, a technology and real estate company based in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK....
...Davy used to take pouches of nitrous oxide down to the banks of the river Avon in the evenings and inhale the gas to see if it improved the quality of his poetry....
...John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK...
...Geoff Davies Birmingham, UK Letters in response to this letter: A tempting headline can break the rules / From John Doherty, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK A quick correction on a literary adverb...
...Colin C Mackay, Delaware, USA Crossword 16,069: Steve Abel, York; Alan Cruse, Stockport; M McQuillan, Edinburgh Polymath 1,005: Mrs SM Fraser, Middlesbrough Crossword 16,057: G Dennis, Stratford-upon-Avon...
...The laurels go, perhaps unsurprisingly, to Oliver Ford Davies as Pandarus, diplomatically dithering, a long silver ponytail hanging behind his bald head and making him resemble an elderly Krautrocker....
...I began by feeling that, although director Jo Davies has her cast play even the comedy with seriousness and commitment (as you need to, to make it work: the audience must feel that the stakes are sufficiently...
...Struggling UK defence group Chemring has appointed Andrew Lewis, a former finance chief at Avon Rubber, as its new group finance director....
...The Tempest transfers to the Barbican, London, on June 30, following rave reviews last November at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon....
...There is no selectivity between the various facets of Shakespeare’s dramatic portrait, and the most idiosyncratic touch is to present Oliver Ford Davies as the Chorus clad in cardigan, muffler and corduroys...
...by Royal Shakespeare Company design director Stephen Brimson Lewis, the engrossing spring exhibition Shakespeare in Art: Tempests, Tyrants and Tragedy at Compton Verney, 10 miles east of Stratford-upon-Avon...
...Foremost among these are Falstaff’s nostalgic reunion with his old comrade Shallow (Oliver Ford Davies cameoing for all he’s worth, accompanied by Jim Hooper resembling a geriatric Tintin as cousin Silence...
...Ian Shuttleworth bushtheatre.co.uk, 020 8743 5050, to January 10 … The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon In Thomas Dekker’s sprightly 16th-century city comedy, young Rowland Lacey...
...Yet Davies also dresses affairs in a largely Victorian style, as if to suggest that that age was less about prudishness than furtive curiosity....
...Sunny Afternoon is a jukebox show featuring the songs of Ray Davies and telling his story and that of his band The Kinks....
...Bolingroke (who becomes Henry IV) is a dignified bruiser; early on, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt and Jane Lapotaire as the Duchess of Gloucester give a masterclass in history-play acting, and Oliver Ford Davies...
...It’s a big task for a young actor, but in the performance I saw Ewan Harris (one of three who alternate) was assured opposite Oliver Ford Davies as Mister Tom, a deeply felt portrayal....
...Oliver Ford Davies is excellent as Andrewes, weighing his words and ideas scrupulously yet also capable of passion when contending with Stephen Boxer’s Tyndale, a man driven by inner fire....
...Straddling the river Avon, Bath Riverside will include a new school, cafés, a restaurant and two parks when complete in 18 years....
...Martin Davies, chief executive, said: “[The acquisition] will contribute [to earnings] by moving out the business into an area where we have expertise and knowledge....
...Oliver Ford Davies wrote a book about the very experience of grappling with the role....
...Oliver Ford Davies makes perfect sense of the old man’s prolixity, dying away in absent-minded rambling to himself. Very funny, very tragic: his is the noble mind o’erthrown, by incipient Alzheimer’s....
...Love’s Labour’s Lost, Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Tel 0844 800 1110...
...Mr Buchanan was supervising firemen removing a portion of the River Avon from the storage cellar of Waugh Haines Rigby, the firm where he is a partner....
...Terry Davies’ unremarkable music, adapting some of the Danny Elfman film score, is performed live but sounds canned. Talented as Bourne is, Scissorhands remains stubbornly stillborn....
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