The many faces of Cate Blanchett – Electra/ Persona is theatre at its most deliciously disturbing
The Luxury Channel | 3 Sep 2026
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Finding Festiv’ailes: Where Creativity Takes Wing
Subud Voice | 29 Aug 2026
For ten days, from 16 to 26 July 2026, representatives from around the world have come together
not simply to conduct meetings, but to enter a shared space of listening. They have travelled from
different cultures, languages and experiences to one of the quieter corners of Indonesia, where rivers
wind through ancient forests and the pace of life invites a different rhythm from the one most of us
know.
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Ronald Phillips obituary: eccentric antiques dealer trusted by royalty
The Times | 3 May 2026
Ronald Phillips never planned on dying, claiming he would live for ever. Even an Evening Standard cartoonist’s illustration of Ron (his preferred name) fishing an antique out of a swimming pool read “Ronald Phillips 5th February 1929 ad infinitum.” Now, if you walk down Mayfair’s Bruton Street, a photograph of Phillips — a man who used regularly to greet his own reflection in the mirror with, “By Jove, you’re good-looking” — sits in the window of his eponymous gallery.
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Performance anxiety
Country & Town House | 6 Sep 2024
Conquer your fears, learn a new skill and have great fun all at the same time
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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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This new dance production is a must-see – Malevo, Sadler’s Wells
Country & Town House | 31 Oct 2023
Picture an extravaganza that recalls hints of the showmanship of the 1970s Village People mixed with a sprinkling of flamenco and a huge helping of reimagined Argentine folkloric dance. Then add some very talented bad-ass men in low-cut necks, black and leather with puffed chests stomping, strutting and thundering their energetic and talented feet to the pounding and pulsating of booming, thudding drums plus guitars and violins live on stage. And what do you get? The South American dance sensation Malevo.
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Review: Jews. In Their Own Words, at the Royal Court Theatre
Country & Town House | 10 Oct 2022
Jews make up less than one per cent of the UK population. Yet a quarter of all hate crimes in the country are antisemitic. In the week that the Jewish Chronicle reported on this harrowing statistic, I went to the Royal Court to see journalist Jonathan Freedland’s ‘Jews. In their Own Words,’(JITOW). I have a Church of England mother but grew up with antisemitism: the curious sort from my Jewish father (the son of observant parents) who directed it against his own kind — arguably a manifestation in part of self-hatred and a perverse desire for assimilation. (‘Jews can be the worst antisemites,’ a Jewish friend explained.)
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Review: The Crucible, National Theatre
Country & Town House | 7 Oct 2022
When girls started yelping and convulsing and then went limp or rigid, witchcraft was diagnosed. This was Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. The Crucible —which was first staged in New York in 1953 —was, as is well known, Arthur Miller’s partly-fictionalised story of the Salem witch trials: a quasi-allegorical play based on the story of the pre-adolescents’ denunciations that gripped Salem and which saw hundreds of townsfolk accused of witchcraft and sent to their deaths. The play was Miller’s response to the paranoia and hysteria of post-war US politics, when Communists and suspected Commies were treated as devils in need of exorcism by senator Joe McCarthy and his like; something Miller witnessed personally.
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Val McDermid, queen of crime, on the perfect murder
Country & Town House | 11 Sep 2022
Val McDermid, international bestselling crime writer, is talking for the first time about when she was suspected of having killed someone – and it could have been the perfect murder. The author, 67, also reveals her feelings about transitioning to become a man, and about her lesbianism. And about the medical condition that could potentially stop her from writing.
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Spear’s 500 Top recommended photography and creative services
Spear’s | 12 Jan 2022
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