Bob Dylan’s songs are so emotive and intense that they might well have overwhelmed the action. It’s greatly to McPherson’s credit that Girl From The North Country is such a compelling drama in its own right. McPherson has written a subtle and touching play about small town lives in middle […]
Daily Archives: January 21, 2018
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On this occasion, they are joined by “the first lady of jazz”, Ella Fitzgerald (the serene and mellifluous Nicola Emmanuelle). It’s thrilling to hear so many of their signature songs, including You Make Me Feel So Young, My Kinda Town, Mr Bojangles, That’s amore and the inevitable My Way, complete […]
Glenn Waldron’s The Here And This And Now is a work in two halves. The first, extremely funny, half depicts a group of pharmaceutical salespeople on a team-building exercise, throwing balls and practising their pitch. The second, chilling, half is set during a world pandemic several years later and shows […]
The supermodel has let slip: “I do Oxfam and also the Sue Ryder in Highgate. “I do my clean-outs, an archive pile, a back-in-the-wardrobe pile and we take a pile to charity.” There is an Oxfam store in Highgate High Street and a Sue Ryder in nearby Muswell Hill. Kate, […]
Zverev, ranked number four in the world, lost in his round of 32 match against Chung Hyeon. The 20-year-old, who is tipped for a bright future but has so far never got past the fourth round of a Grand Slam, was devastated with the defeat. But Federer stepped in to […]
One expert, University of Texas psychology professor James Pennebaker, compared some of their words to those in the harrowing diary of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis during the Second World War. Prof Pennebaker, a specialist in the use of writing to help cope with traumatic […]
More than six out of 10 women felt he should not be afforded the honour. The President has faced repeated accusations of sexual harassment. Sources close to his administration insist that President Trump, an ardent admirer of The Queen, is still keen on an official visit, despite recently cancelling a […]
The Chancellor is fighting to save her political career having failed to form a coalition after the inconclusive result of September’s election. And Germany‘s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) will today decide whether or not to approve coalition talks with Angela Merkel. Around 600 SPD delegates will vote on whether the […]