Hints and tips:
...Look out for performers such as swing and New Orleans jazz legend Graham Hughes, steel-pan maestro Mark Cherrie and jazz and swing songstress Caroline Loftus....
...At the far end of the space hangs a canvas bearing a furious tangle of the whippy, gestural marks that are Hambling’s signature....
...As her father, Vodnik, Alexander Roslavets mumbles and bumbles, and, in spite of his solid bass, doesn’t make a lasting mark....
...First seen at the Rose Theatre, Kingston in 2017, Melly Still’s production now arrives at the National, spilling several decades of Italian life across the Olivier stage....
...Towards the end of her stint at Amazon, Geissler’s protagonist wants to hug a new colleague, Melly, who says hello and offers her name....
...Dick Melly, clerk of the Goldsmiths’ Company, says the British Hallmarking Council – a quango set up by parliament – was taken “totally unawares”....
...Melly Still’s production has the visual exuberance of her Coram Boy in the same venue a few seasons ago....
...Mark Duguid is a senior curator at the BFI National Archive...
...Nation is directed and co-designed by Coram Boy’s Melly Still . Pitched at adults and children aged 10 and upwards, Nation, currently in previews, runs until February 21....
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