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...To put HS2 in perspective following this week’s announcement from Rishi Sunak to scrap the Manchester leg (Report, October 5), you may be amused by a charming Victorian watercolour of Bradford-on-Avon...
...Former usher Vic Roberts recognises Strickland’s description. “The further I went towards the projection booth, the more I felt like I was walking into something shrouded.”...
...“I’d seen Hans Kesting in Kings of War and I thought, ‘OK, I think I know what he means.’ So I did a wild, bacchanalian dance.”...
...It inhabited a disused bus garage between an adult video store and a head shop, in the still-shady King’s Cross....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...February 3; further information here Sport Vic Open The tournament returns to 13th Beach Golf Links with some of the world’s best players and Australia’s elite amateurs. Free entry....
...Best of Enemies Noël Coward Theatre, London James Graham’s brilliant play Best of Enemies had its premiere at London’s Young Vic in 2021: a year that had been rocked by the attack on the US Capitol....
...It doesn’t have the intricate depth of King Charles III, Bartlett’s earlier “future history” play....
...Founded by Chicago-born rappers Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa, who has Ghanaian heritage, it was held in Accra’s Independence Square and attracted 50,000 people....
.... ★★★☆☆ Booking to July, moulinrougemusical.co.uk Freud’s Last Session King’s Head Theatre, London The couch on Brad Caleb Lee’s set for Freud’s Last Session tells us we are in the great psychoanalyst...
...A new generation led by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Amyl and the Sniffers has carried that flame further in recent years....
...“In the past, kings, princes, sultans dressed up a lot — jewels, hats, coats. There is under the skin of the men’s customer a vanity.”...
...Wuthering Heights Bristol Old Vic Wuthering Heights is one of those books that everyone thinks they know, but even Kate Bush has admitted that she didn’t read it before writing her famous song of longing...
...Still, just as the Old Testament leaves even the most faithful occasionally scratching their heads and asking why God sent bears to maul 42 children (4 Kings 2:23-24), so Harris’s message isn’t always clear...
...This electrifying play embraces theatre’s role as public forum to try to amend that. ★★★★★ Young Vic, London to January 22, youngvic.org...
...He staged an acclaimed Sleeping Beauty, complete with a farting fairy, at London’s Young Vic in 2002....
...Many firm favourites are on their way back — Hamilton, Wicked, The Lion King — but the curtain also rises on an exciting array of new shows....
...Audiences could tune in to watch Andrew Scott perform Stephen Beresford’s Three Kings live from the Old Vic, for example, or Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani deliver Lolita Chakrabarti’s Hymn in London’s Almeida...
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...She left that job to found a recruitment agency, Vic Lawrence & Associates, when she got the itch to launch her own talk show....
...It seems to just fall into the abyss of Macbeth and King Lear and those tragedies.”...
...The battle is over, France is vanquished, now all that remains is for the triumphant English king to cement the victory with marriage to Princess Katherine....
...But step forward the Old Vic for a special ovation....
...She laughs heartily when explaining that her “I am Lion King” necklace has absolutely nothing to do with the Disney movie....
...In London, the Old Vic is experimenting with its own twist on a hybrid offering....
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