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  1. Insights into 400-year-old history of The Tempest

    Katy Cowan /

    As a 400-year-old play, it is hard to see how Shakespeare’s The Tempest could have any bearing on today’s world. But on the contrary, Christine Dymkowski, Professor of Drama and Theatre History at Royal Holloway...

  2. Graduate takes centre stage in cult classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    Katy Cowan /

    A De Montfort University (DMU) graduate takes centre stage this autumn with a leading role in the new Curve production of cult classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, directed by the award-winning Michael Buffong...

  3. ‘Manchild’ creator writes a new stage play for Nigel Havers

    Jaselyn Melling /

    Nick Fisher - creator of the hit BBC2 comedy Manchild, BAFTA winning scriptwriter, Sony award-winning radio presenter, fishing expert and author of a string of teen advice books - has written a new stage play for Nigel Havers. Nick, who lives in rural Dorset with his wife, three sons and a daughter...

  4. 'Like Enemies of the State' - an inspired new theatre production

    Jaselyn Melling /

    A London based playwright will this week travel to one of the most unstable countries in Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to carry out extensive research for his new play, Like Enemies of the State, aimed at raising awareness of the dire situation that faces the DRC’s estimated 30,000 child soldiers...

  5. The Mill – City of Dreams

    Katy Cowan /

    ‘The Mill – City of Dreams’ is a new promenade theatre production that tells the story of contemporary Bradford, and seeks to explore the historical impetus and struggle behind the stories of those that migrated to work in the Mills, as well as those of the City’s current inhabitants...

  6. Play Ground - An exhibition where play is as important as the ideas it may stimulate

    Rebekah Harriman /

    At an art gallery we usually have to follow a series of rules. Don’t touch the work, don’t run, don’t shout, don’t play. Don’t, in short, have fun. New Walk Museum and Art Gallery thought it would be good to try something else - this exhibition shows contemporary artists that treat the gallery like a fairground rather than a church with the exhibition Play Ground opening on 5 Februar...

  7. Christmas play celebrates big lottery fund success

    Katy Cowan /

    “No Room at the Holiday Inn” is Red Rose Chain Community Theatre Company’s Christmas play performing on Thursday 16th December. The short play is a modern adaptation of the Nativity Story, devised by the Suffolk-based company through weekly drama workshops held at Gippeswyk Hall, Ipswich; the home of Red Rose Chain. The performance is a celebratory event for the Community Theatre Comp...

  8. Club Velocity presents READING ON FIRE

    Lucy Clarke /

    Festival-hard and never afraid of the big stage, these Berkshire boys know that rock, is not a four letter word, Catchy riffs, string-bending feedback and swirling double-guitar.

  9. Reading Old School V Reading New School

    Lucy Clarke /

    They were one of the biggest, if not the biggest Reading band in the early 90s. They sold out such legendary venues at the RBH Club and the Granby. Fast forward to 2009, after years of starting families and such like, they decided to get back together.

  10. The Noyze

    Club Velocity presents Reading On Fire

    Lucy Clarke /

    THE NOYZE. Four piece who walk the walk and talk the talk. No nonsense straight forward, balls on the table rocknroll. A proper band, for proper people.

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