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If you see the trailers, ads or hear any quick summary of The End of Oak Street, you could be forgiven for thinking the film is yet another rehash of the Jurassic Park franchise created in the 1990s when Stephen Spielberg directed the first two films. Unapologetically, David Robert Mitchell (Under Silver Lake), backed by Cloverfield director JJ Abrams, adds a touch of Back to the Future to his…
The Grand Western Canal runs for eleven glorious miles through rolling mid-Devon countryside with distant views of Exmoor – all the way from Tiverton to a remote and shady Lowdwells Basin in the parish of Holcombe Rogus. It attracts some 300,000 walkers, cyclists of all ages, canoeists, and paddle boarders a year and must be a prime example of how Britain’s industrial heritage has found a new…
The Italian visual artist Emilio Isgrò is older than the Italian Republic which turned 80 this year. The Estorick and the Italian Consulate celebrate this milestone with an evocative, innovative and entertaining exhibition that, in turn, celebrates the artist. Although he is pushing 90, Isgrò showed up at the Premiere of his first solo show in the UK because he has a lot to say about culture,…
If we could have time travelled back to the 17th century and invited to put up at the recently built flint walled manor house in the small coastal village of Blakeney we would have looked out on a thriving port trading with Europe. But all slowly passed into history with the gradual silting up of the River Glaven, the inability of steam shipping to access the shallow harbour and the arrival of the…
Acted out intensely over 90 minutes by one man alone, Buffoon tells the anguished tale of Felix, a story powerfully charged with emotion, tinged with dark humour, steeped increasingly in tragedy and heartbreak, yet still not without hope – hope in the power of algebra: the union of broken parts. This one actor, his only prop a simple, wooden chair, has to grip and engage us through vivid…
Most of us don’t think about life insurance until something happens – a death in the family or a health scare. Then it’s all you can think about. While it can be daunting to research the types of life insurance options, you must have the information to make the right choice that suits you and your life. Follow this easy guide to common life insurance types to find one that is right for you. Term…
By Nigel Heath At one end of the iconic Golden Lion Hotel, a bustling coaching inn since the 18th century and overlooking the picturesque main square in the old market town of St Ives in Cambridgeshire there is a long cool, narrow and shady lane. We had come upon it after checking into the hotel and had emerged for an exploratory stroll. The lane looked enticing and its shade was welcoming because…
Every glass of tap water depends on checks most people never see. UK laboratories test water for hardness, alkalinity, chloride levels and other markers before problems reach homes, care settings or local communities. A titrator helps those labs turn a water sample into reliable data, without relying only on manual judgement. The equipment a lab uses affects what regulators see. Poor validation…
Florian Zeller, the multi award-winning French novelist and playwright, is as successful in London as he is in Paris. He is the most popular French dramatist in the UK since Jean Anouilh. His many plays include The Father and The Son, which you may also have seen on film. His regular translator is Christopher Hampton. The Truth, one of his earliest works, is a typical French boulevard comedy.…
Glorious set, glorious costumes, glorious props, glorious lighting and sound effects, glorious script, doubly glorious performances – yes, even without a comma, Oh Zeus is gloriously, out-of-this-world, all round good. As heavenly humour swoops us from the lofty heights of silky-sheeted Mount Olympus to hellish goings-on in the glowing underparts of Hades via earthy visits to the earthly Grecian…
It was way, way back in 1963 that bachelor boy, Cliff Richard, first youthfully urged us to put on our dancing shoes and dance away our blu-ues by joining him and his happy-go-lucky pals on a carefree summer holiday trip across exotic Europe aboard a London-red double-decker bus. Like the 1960s themselves the film was full of sunny fun and optimism in the days when few working-class Britons had a…
Larking about for laughs is what this 90-minute romp is about, all done, thanks to Liz Cooke and Alexander Stafford, on a minimalist set that’s aesthetically pleasing and beautifully lit. Filled with all the chaotic, make-shift-style fun of a student review, visually enhanced by the comical wonders of dressing-up-box costumes, ridiculous wigs and laughable props, the show pummels us with silly…
Here is Chapter Two of our travel writer Nigel Heath’s French home-owning odyssey Our Stairwell Discovery Now as we sailed out from Portsmouth early on a sunny morning in late July, we began pondering the challenges which lay waiting just over the horizon. We would soon become familiar with the 90-minute drive due south, firstly along the dual carriageway away from Caen, through a flat landscape…
