Lingo and lasers – The Scoop
Country & Town House | 2 May 2024
Caroline Phillips on lingo and lasers
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‘It Stays With You After The Curtain Goes Down’: Long Day’s Journey Into Night Review
Country & Town House | 8 Apr 2024
The challenges of memory, the stranglehold of the past, addiction, alcoholism, loneliness, regret, nostalgia, resignation, denial, blame, guilt, lies and illusion, love and forgiveness. They’re all here in the 1941 autobiographical masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey Into Night – a frequent contender for best American play, and one which won O’Neill a posthumous Pulitzer prize. It’s cathartic and multi-layered, but also funny. And terribly sad.
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Review: Faith Healer At The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
Country & Town House | 27 Mar 2024
Go and see this production of Faith Healer by Brian Friel, one of the greatest Irish dramatists; it’s mesmerising and moving. It’s a four-scene play in which three characters act out their memories alone on stage —monologues delivered by Frank the faith healer, his wife, Grace, and his manager, Teddy: three unreliable narrators.
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Sustainable Bath And Shower Products To Shop Now
Country & Town House | 14 Mar 2024
What better time than now to scrub up in a newly-restored bath whilst breathing deeply of the latest sustainable home fragrance diffuser? To buff and wash your skin in the shower with sweetly scented organic products, sip a (B-Corp certified) tipple in the tub and loll in CBD-oil infused bathwater? And then to slaver yourself with planet-friendly potions when you hop out? Caroline Phillips presents a guide to the best sustainable shower and bath products.
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My first attempt at stand-up comedy … aged 64
The Times | 15 Jan 2024
I am onstage in front of 65 strangers who think I’m a stand-up comedian. I’ve never done anything like this before. Why have I agreed to expose myself to cracking jokes solo in public when I’d rather eat my own prostate, if I had one, or face the Covid-19 inquiry naked? I fear stage fright, hecklers and farting near the mike.
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