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  • Fiddler on the Roof, Barbican Theatre, 17th July

    This review may turn out to be a total waste of time as the run of this brilliant production finished on Saturday, 19th July. BUT it was such a triumph – I didn’t spot a single empty seat at this matinee performance – that a further run at a different venue has to be a… →

  • Materuni Falls

    Woking Writers Circle hopes you enjoy Tricia’s second instalment of her Tanzania Adventures, as much as we did: I’d said to my friend that I wasn’t keen to visit the Serengeti or wildlife parks. Human life interests me more. I’m not averse to natural features especially waterfalls. I was lucky enough to visit Victoria falls… →

  • Zanzibar

    One of our Circle members has recently been on a trip to Tanzania and has written a piece describing her experience, below: In Zanzibar the majority of people are Muslim. I didn’t realize the strength of Arab influence until I was told of their role in the trade of slaves and spices. In fact, the… →

  • The Vanity of Small Differences – At The Lightbox, Woking until 7th July 2024

    Grayson Perry’s Tapestries Grayson Perry’s large and vibrant tapestries are currently on display in Surrey at The Lightbox, Woking, flooding the main gallery with colour. The six tapestries, each measuring 2m by 4m, tell the story of Tim Rakewell as he embarks on a journey of twenty-first century social mobility. A familiar story? Indeed. Tim… →

  • Shrek the musical

    Shrek The Musical is a toe tapping, foot-stomping whirlwind of a show. Shrek (Antony Lawrence), by Ogre custom is sent to find his own way at 7 years old. Shunned by everyone for his terrifying size and ugliness he decides to live in solitude away from people in a swamp until a host of fairy… →

  • Life of Pi 

    LIFE OF PI, a captivating theatrical experience based on Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning bestseller of the same name, is the story of a young man, Pi (Divesh Subaskaran), navigating his way through life’s challenges. Growing up as a Hindu in his father’s Zoo, Pi develops an affinity towards the animals. When the zoo acquires a… →

  • The Mousetrap: 70th Anniversary Tour

    Now celebrating being in constant production for 70 years, you have to be curious as to what all the fuss is about, and how it’s endured. It’s not as if you can’t miss a bit of Agatha Christie even if you wanted to, as there is always a Miss Marple, Poirot, or some new remake… →

  • Home, I’m Darling

    Like the title itself, ‘Home, I’m Darling’, this clever, refreshing play upturns ideals and perceptions from the very start. There is no curtain; the audience arrives in the auditorium and is presented with an idealistic nineteen-fifties home set – with florid wallpaper, a home cocktail bar, ‘vintage’ furniture and fittings and a classic pristine kitchen,… →

  • Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

    Even before Disney cast his magical spell on all things fairy, Tchaikovsky brought the tale of Sleeping Beauty to life in his 1890 ballet set in a supernatural world of fairies, princesses and princes. It is fait accompli then, that Matthew Bourne has revived this ballet, completing the Tchaikovsky trilogy, after his much-loved interpretations of… →

  • Nagihan Seymour: The Golden Ratio

    by Carla Scarano D’Antonio 14 January–2 April 2023, The Lightbox, Woking Captivating and inspiring, the new exhibition in the Upper Gallery at The Lightbox in Woking displays the artworks of Nagihan Seymour. She features the patterns of Turkish art (15th century), linking them to the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence and creating high-quality geometric patterns… →