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...It can offer routes into discussing racism (Roy Williams’ Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads), sexuality (John Donnelly’s The Pass) or acceptance (Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical)....
...Cohen’s father struggled and his sister, Ellen, was taken in by relatives....
...One is set in front of Warley Place in Essex, the grand home of the formidable Edwardian gardener Ellen Willmott....
...First, though, we call Dad and Auntie Ellen. They are in their eighties and we can’t visit them. I drive into Accra, which is in lockdown — a strange and eerie feeling of apocalypse....
...a note of apology to keep it believable”: “ ‘Your buttocks are hard,’ Ellen says....
...‘The Quest for Shakespeare’s Garden’, by Roy Strong (Thames & Hudson), £14.95....
...And Roy Hudd, writer of Wilton’s Dick Whittington & His Cat, relishes the opportunity, delivering a charming, old-fashioned panto, low on smut, high on nonsense. It is an altogether joyous occasion....
...But there are many more subtle forms of mediation than those deployed by Rushdie or Roy....
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...Perelman has also spent a fortune on art by Richard Serra, Cy Twombly and Roy Lichtenstein. Last year he traded lawsuits with Gagosian, a longtime friend, over “Popeye”, a $4m Jeff Koons sculpture....
...In this rediscovered play, staged here by Roy Marsden, Noël Coward relocates the action from around his own expatriate community on Jamaica to a Micronesian island, and overdoes the symbolism by sticking...
...Thomas as a sacred monster but writes with a wonderfully dry humour and poise that finally opens out into a moving sympathy; and Roy Foster’s two-volume W.B....
...Set up by trader Roy Sher in 2003, ISAM runs a gold fund, which returned 17 per cent a year on average over the past four years, and a macro fund, which reported a return of 16 per cent in its first year...
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