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LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling
LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE !
Romeo and Juliet come calling
There’s a bit of history between me and Romeo, to be honest, as this youth has let me down on more than one occasion.
Seventeen years ago, back in the UK when I was a fifty year…
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MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRIBUTE TO MANRIQUE: review by Norman Warwick
César Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco.
Teatro Tias, March 2020 Review.
On
the evening Friday of 6th
March 2020
we had
decided that over this weekend, we would visit the first two of
several performance we had
previewed in a short…
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SWAN LAKE AT THE LOWRY UNTIL 7TH MARCH
SWAN LAKE AT THE LOWRY
UNTIL 7TH MARCH
I was working with SpiralDance a few years ago, as creative
writing facilitator on a project with disaffected and disengaged children in
what was then a deprived area of Rochdale MBC. It had been…
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CONCIERTO ´SOUVENIR ROMÁNTICO’
MAKING NEW FRIENDS
THROUGH MUSIC
A
review.
We tend to ignore the first minute of any phone calls from Maigret Marguerita as she is usually so excited we can´t follow a word she is saying, but after a while the story unfolded. She had…
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AND THE PICKIN´ DOWN THE LINE
Guitarras en Haria Festival Internacional; review
There were no signs at 4.00 pm that this was yet the
case, and with the gala concert not scheduled to start until 7.00 pm we had
time to dip into Arietta for omelette and chips and a coffee.
Later,…
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ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION
ARTS:
BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION
The
story turned about to be about a travelling production of a play called Trojan
Horse that was playing at the time at Oldham Coliseum Theatre as part of a
national tour. Two years ago the play had…
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DRAGONS, DRAMA & DRAWINGS
DRAGONS
ROAM THE STREETS;
THE
RAT LOOKS ON
a
quick catch up
The Year Of The Rat is the first sign in the Chinese zodiac
cycle. According to the Chinese zodiac story, in
the competition held by the Jade Emperor to decide the zodiac…
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STREET SCENES praised by Steve Bewick
STREET SCENE by Kurt Weill: Opera North
Grand Theatre, Leeds, January 18th 2020
The synopsis for the Opera North production of Street Scenes, which opened at ´The Grand Theatre,´ Leeds on Saturday 18th January 2020, of one of Kurt…
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TRAVELLING CIRCUS
TRAVELLING CIRCUS
A collaborative performance of Hanging By
A Thread, which included work by Just Poets, Touchstones Creative Writing
Group, Spiral Dance (now Can´t Dance Can) and People Print (now Community
Media), was performed in Rochdale…
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THE BAUM, BALLADS AND A BIT OF BORIS by Michael Higgins
THE BAUM, BALLADS AND A BIT OF BORIS by Michael Higgins
My Boris love song was given its first sounding at The
Baum in Rochdale on Sunday (see photograph above). Some might feel there is
often too much anti Boris work read out at these events…