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Carmen
Bravo to Woking’s New Victoria theatre for adding two operatic performances to this season’s listings. Madame Butterfly played on Friday 11 and Carmen on Saturday 12 March. These one-night-only events, billed as some of Ellen Kent’s ‘dazzling’ productions are currently on a 34-venue tour of the UK, bringing the most classical and enjoyable operas to… →
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Waitress
I’m pleased to report that we have a refreshingly new and already highly recognised musical on stage here at the New Victoria theatre in Woking this week. Waitress opened in the US in 2015, swiftly landing on Broadway to rave reviews and multiple outstanding nominations, before a successful US tour leading straight to the West… →
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Bridget Riley: The Pleasures of Sight
Bridget Riley’s long and remarkable 70-year career is examined at the Lightbox’s exhibition to commemorate her 90th birthday. Her abstract compositions develop in triangles, oblong shapes, circles, spirals and above all stripes that evoke natural phenomena such as the sound of the wind and the movement of the waves. The secret of her success is… →
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Blood Brothers
Let’s start this with a massive shout-out and respect for Willy Russell, writer of Blood Brothers and modern classics Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, who has entertained and inspired recent generations by championing the working class, making heroines and heroes out of the unappreciated and the underdogs of society. His works and characters, using Liverpool… →
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Magic Goes Wrong
It was only a few weeks ago since a very giggly and laugh-out-loud audience enjoyed the shenanigans of Mischief’s The Play That Goes Wrong at the New Vic, whetting their appetites for this week’s offering of Magic Goes Wrong, which, according to the press releases, promises to be Mischief’s biggest and most daring comedy catastrophe… →
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Art For Your World
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio The new exhibition from the Ingram Collection at the Lightbox in Woking has been organised in collaboration with Artwise and coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event also refers to COP26 (the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow) in order… →
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The Play That Goes Wrong
In a week, month, year, world, where everything seems to be perpetually going wrong, the attraction to go and see The Play That Goes Wrong seems unavoidable. I think we have all gone way beyond the fear of tempting fate by asking, what more could possibly go wrong?, as we are repeatedly dealt another perverse… →
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School of Rock
Spawned from the highly successful 2003 movie starring love-him-or-hate-him Jack Black, the School of Rock musical is on tour and premiering in Woking this week. Whether you have seen the film or not, it is a simple, heartwarming tale of self-realisation and fulfilment of individual potential, and as satisfying as any Cinderella story viewed from under a duvet on… →
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Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio The impressive new exhibition at the Lightbox in Woking features over 60 drawings by Old Masters from the Devonshire collection at Chatsworth. The outstanding collection at Chatsworth House was started by the second Duke of Devonshire and includes paintings, furniture, ancient coins, sculptures, jewellery, metalwork and textiles as well as Master… →
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Looking Good Dead
I first picked up Peter James in a hotel in Crete a few years ago; and he has since become an entertaining and absorbing companion on a variety of Mediterranean sunbeds and helped keep my patience together during the inevitable airport gate delays on holidays ever since with his brutal and inventive killings, smart plot… →
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