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ROH broadcasts - COVID-19 update
19th Mar 2020
by Corn Hall admin
19 March 2020 This morning we received the following information from More2Screen, the content providers for Royal Opera House live broadcasts: SWAN LAKE - LIVE BROADCAST CANCELLATION We can now confirm that the Live broadcast… read more
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Present Laughter – Andrew Scott's brilliant performance in the National Theatre's Production makes Noel Coward's play sparkle
21st Nov 2019
by David Vass
Noel Coward’s furiously funny farce is given a new lease of life in this frenzied production at the Old Vic. Largely a vehicle for Andrew Scott’s brilliant incarnation of preening thesp Garry Essendine, the play… read more
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Another chance to see Fleabag on the big screen - it's a terrifically entertaining showcase for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s considerable talents
2nd Oct 2019
by Corn Hall admin
I wonder how many others were belatedly catching up with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s extraordinary Edinburgh debut back in 2013, kicking themselves that, at the time, they went to see something else instead? Given the global success… read more
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Gillian Anderson and Lily James - superb in the National Theatre live screening of All About Eve
16th Apr 2019
by Corn Hall admin
This adaption of a 1950s movie films its actors while they perform live, projecting them onto a screen, while yet more the actors perform live on stage - all of which has then been filmed… read more
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NT's Antony & Cleopatra next Thursday is packed with enough intrigue to fill a mini-series
22nd Jan 2019
by Corn Hall admin
Simon Godwin’s production of Antony & Cleopatra for the National Theatre may be in modern dress, but it is otherwise a surprisingly mainstream and coherent retelling of Shakespeare’s complex, episodic tale of his other star-crossed… read more
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Allelujah! - something to celebrate!
8th Jan 2019
by Corn Hall admin
The arrival of a new play by Alan Bennett is always something to celebrate, not least as they are increasingly rare. His latest, set in a rundown NHS hospital, is his first in six years,… read more
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David Vass is swept away with the surprisingly moving new production of The King and I
27th Nov 2018
by Corn Hall admin
The King and I has long been the “problem” Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, and there is certainly a hint of condescension in a story about an English governess showing the King of Siam the error… read more
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Julius Caesar from National Theatre a hit
14th Apr 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Shakespeare’s essay on political expediency and the fragility of power is notoriously difficult to stage effectively. With an early exit for its eponymous lead, and the closing scenes largely taken up by folk shouting and… read more
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A preview of Wednesday film - A Man Called Ove
29th Jan 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Hannes Holm’s adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel is that rarest of things, a film that improves on its source material. In place of Backman’s broad brush comedy, Holm presents an altogether more nuanced take… read more
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Dunkirk - A Preview
15th Jan 2018
by Corn Hall admin
The story of the Dunkirk evacuation, which saw a flotilla of small civilian vessels assist in the rescue of stranded troops from France in 1940, has been told many times before, but never with such… read more
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