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...She sees Kureishi’s 1990 novel, which she’s adapting with the author for a co-production with the RSC, as “the brother” to Carter’s....
...The staging, by Michael Longhurst and Ann Yee, channels all this through the British public’s love affair with the silver screen....
...It’s there in the slow-burning plots: will Nicholas (Billy Howle) realise that he’s in love with Fenny (Bessie Carter)? Will Dora and Cynthia be reconciled? What will become of the next generation?...
...“How very queer,” remark Lucy McCormick’s Jayne and Emma Pallant’s Sally Ann, fanning themselves aggressively in an effort to stir something up, even if it’s only the sultry air....
...Katherine Kingsley’s Grand High Witch channels Garbo and takes preening selfies; Sally Ann Triplett’s brilliant Gran is a cigar-smoking, tough old boot in boots, with a heart of gold and a fabulous voice...
...The pain of rejection feels sharp in Mullaney’s performance, and Carter matches that as Georges, realising with horror what he has done in asking his life partner to pretend not to exist....
...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But this singer is not old at all. She is decisively Of This Moment....
...Sarah Raven, the nursery owner and doyenne of British horticulture, says the gardening world contains “so much dogmatism”. Having originally trained as a doctor, Raven is a self-taught gardener....
...That achievement is facilitated by the confining effects of Sarah Bacon’s nondescript living-room set, whose drabness epitomises the central idea that love is the truest form of hospitality. ★★★☆☆ To October...
...Think of Sarah Brown, whose warmth was employed by the British Labour party to offset prime minister Gordon Brown’s awkwardness....
...The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie (Chatto & Windus) A former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary herself, Ogilvie has written a “people...
...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But she is not old at all....
...Around 1826, a Connecticut teenager named Sarah Ann Major Harris embroidered her family history in silk thread on a square of linen, creating the only surviving genealogical sampler by a Black girl....
...Five top stories from the world of work Sarah de Lagarde fell onto the tube tracks. Nobody helped. Why? I had heard about Sarah’s accident through friends who know her....
...In early October the French luxury group Kering announced that the relatively unknown designer Seán McGirr would take over the brand Alexander McQueen, succeeding longtime creative director Sarah Burton....
...Gary Carter, GMB national officer, said the resignation highlighted “what a perilous situation Thames Water is in”....
...Actor Tracy-Ann Oberman does not agree: for her, it’s about confronting it and examining both the play and the history of antisemitism in Britain....
...Jonathan Gunthorpe and Gweneth Ann Rand created vivid characters out of the physician and manager, not only singing well, but delivering spoken text with uncommon skill....
...Tracy-Ann Oberman’s actress Belinda smiles beatifically at the audience as she ploughs doggedly on, delivering whole sections of dialogue to herself because her onstage partner has failed to materialise....
...I went to SUNY Purchase, and I heard Sarah Vaughan and Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter, and I was like, I love how unique everybody’s voice is, you know?...
...There was no such thing as “Carternomics” because Jimmy Carter never came up with a coherent economic plan....
...Together with other New Yorkers – socialites Muffie Potter Aston and Blaine Trump, and film producer Sarah Arison among them – Fales-Hill is committed to adding “kids of colour to the school, as well as...
...The Royal Opera’s new production, created by Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee, is something else again. In this enchanted natural world, the human race is about to unleash pollution and destruction....
...Sarah Stiell will have her first-ever garden at the show....
...Ann in Atlanta says her family became aware of cognitive problems in an elderly relative when he began writing “$10 or $20 cheques to any charity that asked — real or fake”, long before his diagnosis....
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