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Monthly Archive: January 2023

Pierre Hollins Banishes the January Blues
28th Jan 2023
by David Vass
A regular highlight on the Corn Hall calendar, the Comedy Club brought some much needed cheer to frosty 2023 for a packed crowd keen to shake off the January blues with an international roster of… read more
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A boiling Crucible of terror and tragedy comes to the Corn Hall
23rd Jan 2023
by David Vass
Arthur Miller’s 1953 study of hysteria and public shaming marks a welcome return of live performance beamed in from the National Theatre to the Corn Hall. The play is notionally a period drama, retelling the… read more
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A delightful confection starring Leslie Manville and fifties fashion
20th Jan 2023
by David Vass
Anyone familiar with the films of Mike Leigh will know how good an actor Leslie Manville is, but it’s only as recently as 2017, for the performance in Phantom Threads, that this was widely acknowledged.… read more
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Tom Cruise goes Maverick in this astonishing spectacle
13th Jan 2023
by David Vass
Viewed through the prism of all that followed, the first Top Gun film looks oddly dated now, but at the time it was a game changer, instrumental in bringing the vitality and economy of advertising… read more
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Common Ground have fun with nuns
8th Jan 2023
by David Vass
The Common Ground Theatre Company specialises in the dramatization of challenging classic texts, fearlessly tackling the likes of Coleridge, Poe and Dostoevsky. Their shows make for intellectually nourishing and wonderfully enlightening evenings that educate as… read more
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