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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…

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…