The Michelin Guide rightly rates The White Horse pub in King’s Sutton worthy of recommendation for its food, allowing this lovely village a second claim to the attentions of the discerning.
A witty and sometimes waspish account of Oxford University life as it was being led four decades into the 18th century is supplied by a female commentator whose musings – long a subject of academic study – have only lately found published form.
Physical theatre at its most arresting, ever the stock-in-trade of Frantic Assembly, is delivered in full measure in Anna Jordan’s gripping new play The Unreturning. So too is the message – hardly controversial this – that war is vile, soul-destroying, character-changing, life-denying.
As was ever the case with art at its
Leaving aside the traditional post-Christmas lull in the restaurant business, these are dismal days for the mid-market chains, Italian ones especially. Even the middle-class’s favourite Pizza Express, once seemingly invulnerable, is said to be in trouble.
The ever-reliable entertainment factory that is The Mill at Sonning excels itself with a heart-warming, hilarious and always hugely enjoyable production of the American classic Guys and Dolls.
A high-profile production of The Scottish Play gets some of the lousiest reviews I can recall in an age and is then sent out (starry leads departed) on a lengthy national tour. Crazy or what?
Oh what a night! – as was said by all who attended the star-studded gala celebrating the 80th
Shakespeare in Love is at once a celebration of theatre and a demonstration of all it is able to achieve through the example of its greatest practitioner and those he continues to inspire.
Welsh National Opera’s recent visit to the New Theatre supplied a stark study in contrasts in work from two of Italy’s greatest composers for the stage.
