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Hormonal Housewives
As a child, I remember my aunties as big-bosomed bundles of middle-aged spread, wearing unflattering clothes (well, that could have been something to do with seventies fashions), whose main form of excitement came from knitting patterns, Tupperware parties and the arrival of the latest Littlewoods catalogue. Feminine identity was never discussed, except for dark references… →
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Club Tropicana – the Musical
Forget the sixties, the eighties was the decade of revolutionary music for me. I started the decade in secondary school and left it with a degree, a husband and a headful of music-anthemed memories; first single bought, first album (on cassette), first school dance snog song, end of exams songs, first summer holidays with friends-not-parents… →
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Dirty Dancing
I must admit, the preponderance of screen-to-stage productions that swiftly sweep their way across the stage at the New Vic these days does make me despair somewhat and crave for something new and original. Not that there’s anything wrong with most of the these productions, but it’s a bit like the fast food dilemma at… →
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The Rocky Horror Show
You may feel decidedly underdressed as you go about your business in Woking this week, as undoubtedly you will spot more than the normal extent of men and women tottering around in high heels, wearing fish-neck stockings, basques and outlandish make-up. This is because the inimitable Rocky Horror Show is in town, giving anyone and… →
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Abigail’s Party
In the programme for Abigail’s Party, director Sarah Esdaile talks about how she has adapted the play to make it her (and the cast’s) own, rather than a karaoke version of the famous TV play starring Alison Steadman. I have never seen the TV version of Abigail’s Party, or if I have I’ve already… →
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Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers
by Carla Scarano D’Antonio The exhibition welcomes visitors with a portrait of Thuraya Hamad Al Zaabi (2011) by Gabriella Sancisi. Her broad smile and bright hijab symbolise the resilience and eventual success of women photographers. They were pioneers who worked in a male-dominated world at a time where professional photographers were all men. Fast Forward… →
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Cyril Mann: Painter of Light and Shadow
‘The sun, my dear, is God’ : JMW Turner Painting into the sun was Cyril Mann’s main consideration in order to achieve an effective study of light, which is present in all his paintings. The exhibition at the Lightbox, loaned by the London-based art gallery Piano Nobile, spans from Mann’s first paintings, when he was… →
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Ghost the Musical
Ghost, the movie, is perhaps one of the most well-known and well-loved films in cinema history, and not only by becoming an easy favourite title of Christmas party charade games. It was the highest-grossing movie in 1990 and bagged Whoopi Goldberg a well-deserved Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. It also won the Oscar for the… →
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Benidorm Live
I love a bit of irony. You probably know that Thomas Cook was the founder of mass tourism as we know it. Nearly 200 years ago, he built a business running excursions and tours around Britain and then onto the continent, introducing the use of designated tickets, hotels and restaurants; the precursor to the… →
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Rain Man
Rain Man, the multi-Oscar winning movie, was, for me, one of the most iconic American films of the 1980s, bringing together two of Hollywood’s most celebrated and charismatic stars of the era – Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. But it wasn’t the superstars that made it so memorable; it was the resounding power of a… →
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