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Oh, lawks, now the Bard’s Richard III is a pirate! Whatever next? I suppose no one has yet had him arrive on stage in a UFO. Have they? Must check….because maybe I can sell the idea to some ambitious avant-garde director. 😄 Unfortunately, according to the Tanks website, (Cairns, Queensland, Australia) this seafaring event has…
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Even more “Britain’s Most Historic Towns”
America, Armada, banking, Battle of Lincoln, body snatching, Charles II, Corn Laws, Drake, Edinburgh, Engels, executions, Glasgow, Horatio Nelson, industry, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Marx, medicine, Nicola de la Haie, Osborne House, overdrafts, Plymouth, Portsmouth, rapid expansion, Royal Society, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, Sir Walter Raleigh, theatre, William Burke, William HareAlice Roberts has been back on our screens with a third series of the above. This time, she visited (Mediaeval) Lincoln, (Restoration) London, (Naval) Portsmouth, (Elizabethan) Plymouth, (Steam Age) Glasgow, (Georgian) Edinburgh and (Industrial Revolution) Manchester, albeit not in chronological order like the two previous series. There was a focus on Nicola de la Haye…
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And now for something completely different! A sympathetic Richard and caricatured Henry. Suddenly today’s heavy rain is of no consequence. There’s sunshine out there after all. http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-good-king-richard-the-drayton-arms/ And here’s another good review of the play ‘that sets the record straight’ as far as Richard is concerned: https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/132595/good-king-richard-at-the-drayton-arms-theatre/
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From the Golden Age Theatre Company’s Facebook page. Nick Randell interviews playwright Ian Dixon Potter about ‘Good King Richard’ prior to the first performance in December 2015: https://soundcloud.com/…/sns-online-bitesized-series-3-good… The play now transfers to The Drayton Arms Theatre in South Kensington starting next Tuesday. Performances are Tuesdays to Saturdays at 8pm. Saturday matinees at 3pm. The…
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