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The Nutcracker, Northern Ballet
What heralds Christmas and excites our senses more than the turning on of the town’s Christmas lights or promotions of the fun-filled pantomime season? If you’re lucky enough to catch it, it has to be Tchaikovsky’s most popular and evocative ballet, The Nutcracker. It is, without doubt, the essence of Christmas, and an experience you… →
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La Traviata – Behind the Curtain: Glyndebourne 50th Tour
In this tweeting, twittering age of soundbites, music videos, endless, pointless newsfeeds, political rants and inane banter, our daily lives are filled with such a cacophony of voices that we are often left feeling exhausted and numb. The human voice has become so devalued, that it’s hard to appreciate its power, so, take a step… →
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Impressionism: The Art of Life at the Lightbox in Woking
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, A Garden in Montmartre, 1890 – 1899 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Carla Scarano enjoys and discusses works by Renoir, Pisarro, Cézanne, Sisley, Signac, Degas, Rodin and others A well-chosen number of works of the Impressionists is displayed at the Lightbox ranging from Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sisley, Signac, Degas, Rodin and others.… →
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Exploration and invention. Picasso: Paper & Clay at the Lightbox in Woking
by Carla Scarano The prolific and versatile traits of Picasso’s talent are manifest in the current riveting exhibition at the Lightbox in Woking. It gives a clear-cut vision of Picasso’s artistic development, focusing on his printing and ceramic works and highlighting his experimental technical approach, innovative both in forms and subjects, and amply contextualising… →
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The Addams Family
PHOTOGRAPHS: MATT MARTIN Firstly a hugely popular TV series debuting in 1964, then a worldwide box office hit film in 1991 with a closely followed sequel, the Addams Family morphed into a highly entertaining theatrical musical comedy in 2009, now currently touring the UK. This now well-known morbidly “kooky” family has amused and entertained… →
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Jane Eyre
The National Theatre’s tour of Jane Eyre came to Woking last night in dazzling fashion. Directed by Sally Cookson, this imaginative staging of Charlotte Brontë’s classic 1847 novel quickly grabs you by the soul and sucks you in. We begin with Jane’s birth. “It’s a girl!” the cast call as actress Nadia Clifford voices… →
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No time for lunch at festival’s three-hour banquet of poetry
by Greg Freeman More than two dozen poets played their part in a three-hour poetry session at a literary festival in a Surrey commuter town at the weekend. The Poetry Lunch, organised by Write Out Loud Woking, comprised four guest poets and more than 20 open mic readers, all performing in the café of the… →
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Funny Girl
PHOTOGRAPH: MANUEL HARLAN Funny Girl is a musical loosely based on the life of real star Fanny Brice. Some liberties are taken with the facts but it is entertainment with a capital E and essentially remains the story of a vaudeville chorus girl who rose to become a Ziegfeld Follies star. Along the way she… →
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The Woman in Black
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TRISTRAM KENTON ‘Tis the season of bright spring colours and the joy of Easter bunnies, chocolate treats, lambs in fields and birds singing merrily in blossoming trees … but now there’s something completely different; prepare to be totally spooked! The Woman in Black brings out goose bumps and spine chills that don’t come… →
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Million Dollar Quartet
I am a bit of a theatre geek, but even more so I’m a music geek. If you are trying to listen to the radio and hear me say “Did you know …” you know you are about to get a lecture on what I consider to be an interesting sidenote in music history. Million… →
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