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The Cawston Band raises the roof off the Corn Hall
21st Jan 2024
by David Vass
If you've never heard a brass band play live - and these days that sadly places you with the majority – it might be hard to appreciate why those of us who have simply love… read more
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A Special Trip to Cromer
18th Jan 2024
by David Vass
Who would have thought that a German documentary about Cromer would even be a thing, let alone a success, both in producer Jens Meurer's home country and here in the UK. Seaside Special is all… read more
Posted in Film, Norfolk
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Mark Watson Embraces Diss
14th Jan 2024
by David Vass
I've seen Mark Watson a few times over the years, and I'm never sure how much of his intended routine ever gets delivered. Such is his conversational, seemingly disconnected, style, it’s tricky you work out… read more
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Nolan's Explosive Biopic lights up the screen
11th Jan 2024
by David Vass
Christopher Nolan’s formidable, if occasionally unwieldy, biopic of Robert Oppenheimer is huge in both its scale and ambition. Over the course of its considerable playing time, it interweaves Oppenheimer's time in academia, his romantic entanglements,… read more
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The Ice Wolf Cometh
9th Jan 2024
by David Vass
MISS MIMPLE MEETS THE ICE WOLF - Common Ground Theatre Company Ushering in the New Year in the company of Common Ground Theatre has become something of tradition in the last few years, and one… read more
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Bah Humbug!
6th Jan 2024
by David Vass
Just when you thought it was safe to put away the tinsel and the baubles, Simon Callow pops up with a version of Charles Dickens's classic, ghostly tale to remind us that the spirit of Christmas… read more
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A Magical Seasonal Treat for All the Family
15th Dec 2023
by David Vass
The Corn Hall has hosted a Christmas pantomime for many years, but this is the first created in house, and it's a gamble that has paid off handsomely. The ensemble cast and crew may not… read more
Posted in Pantomime, Theatre
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Sprowston Boy is a winner
24th Nov 2023
by David Vass
In the mid 80s, salesman Geoff Whiting and coal merchant Kenny Blanch bought a racehorse and named it after the road they both grew up on. The horse went on to romp home ahead of… read more
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In the Barbie world life in plastic is fantastic
23rd Nov 2023
by David Vass
Greta Gerwig's surprisingly subversive movie about the eponymous Barbie, in all her weird and wonderful incarnations, stars Margot Robbie in a role that she was surely born into, as Stereotypical Barbie. Her stereotypical pal Ken,… read more
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A Timely reminder of the horrors of conflict
10th Nov 2023
by David Vass
It was nearly one hundred years ago that RC Sherriff's extraordinary treatise on life in the trenches was first performed in the West End. And yet, in both its language and sensibilities, Roughcast's staging of… read more
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