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...The staging, by Michael Longhurst and Ann Yee, channels all this through the British public’s love affair with the silver screen....
...“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...
...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...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Different again is The Birthday Girl (Canelo, £9.99) which builds on earlier successes from the capable Sarah Ward....
...“I am passionate, perhaps to the point of mild obsession, about them,” says Yorkshire-based floral designer and fellow society member Sarah Statham. “Each one has unique markings that mesmerise....
...on the way anti-Semitism can seep into even the most avowedly anti-racist circles and draws on personal accounts from a wide range of voices, including MPs Luciana Berger and Margaret Hodge, actor Tracy-Ann...
...Drummer Jim White of Dirty Three, guitarist Matt Kinsey, bassist Emmett Kelly and pianist Sarah Ann Phillips provide highly expressive musicianship....
...Melanie, the narrator of Sarah Thomas’s Queen K (Serpent’s Tail, £14.99) is another outsider keeping her wits in a world of wealth and privilege....
...Ann Russell is one of the trend’s rising stars....
...I was talking to Ann Francke, the refreshingly jargon-free CEO of the Chartered Management Institute....
...In the great tradition of the English Gothic novel, Sarah Hall’s Burntcoat is about a house and its owner, an artist called Edith Harkness — a name straight out of Ann Radcliffe....
...“Two-thirds of our shopping baskets in the UK are made up with processed foods,” says London-based nutritionist Sarah Ann Macklin....
...This humble, daily life approach is crucial in our vision,” says Christophe Lemaire of the eponymous label he creatively co-leads with Sarah-Linh Tran....
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