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Archive for April, 2019

The Unthanks, Wimborne review

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on 27/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Review of The Unthanks at Wimborne Minster on their 2019 “Unaccompanied As We Are” tour. And they are unaccompanied. A sublime show, with sterling support from Scottish singer-songwriter Tim Dalling.

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Climate change … my rant …

Posted in Uncategorized on 19/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Having watched David Attenborough on Climate Change last night, we discussed it at length and I realized how often I’ve ranted on the same stuff, so I thought writing it down might at least spare the family having to listen again … LINK TO MY RANT. Comments are enabled if you want to make them.

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Missing Link review

Posted in Uncategorized on 18/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Review added of the latest animation from Laika Studio, MISSING LINK (er, linked). Visually stunning and there are plenty of jokes for the accompanying adults. Highy recommended.

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The Taming of The Shrew RSC 2019 review

Posted in Uncategorized on 12/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Review of the third RSC play, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Linked). The RSC have reversed the roles. This is England, 1591 and it’s a matriarchy. All the male roles are now female, and Katherine and Bianca (Bianco) are now men. It’s not “gender blind” but a rethink of the play in a world where women had all the power. And it’s absolutely wonderful! We loved it.

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As You Like It- RSC 2019 review

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 12/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

The second of three plays in Stratford, AS YOU LIKE IT (linked). Some new variations on lines and scenes, as expected at the RSC. All RSC Shakespeare is unmissable …

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Kunene and The King review

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on 11/04/2019| 1 Comment »

Review of Kunene and The King (LINKED) at the Royal Shakespeare Company. 2019. A dying white South African actor (Antony Sher) and his African carer (John Kani). John Kani wrote it. A powerful play, which also manages to be controversial AND funny.

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Sparrows Can’t Sing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 04/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

This 1963 film, SPARROWS CAN’T SING, featuring many of the later British sitcom stars, led by Carry On films Barbara Windsor has been added to the 60s Retrospective film reviews. It’s there because I was interested in Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop which provided almost the entire cast.

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The Highwaymen review

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 03/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Review of the 2019 Netflix The Highwaymen starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson. This is the story of Bonnie and Clyde told from the law men’s point of view – we only get glimpses of Bonnie and Clyde. A superb feature film, straight to Netflix after a token short theatrical run of two weeks, as is the current fashion.

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Fleetwood Mac Toppermost

Posted in Uncategorized on 01/04/2019| Leave a Comment »

Over at the Toppermost website, a three part article on Fleetwood Mac is up (FOLLOW LINK). Part one is by Andrew Shields (the Peter Green era 1967-1970), Part two is by David Lewis (The Bob Welch & Others Era 1970-74) and Part 3 (The Buckingham-Nicks era) is by me. It’s one we discussed for years … was it one band or several bands? The answer was the three part article. If you want to comment, do at the Toppermost site.

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