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A tiny show with a huge message
3rd Oct 2022
by David Vass
String Theatre have brought, crows, chimney sweeps and circuses to the Corn Hall in previous years, in productions that featured the changing of the seasons, the aquatic world of fish and myriad forms of insect… read more
Posted in children, Family, Theatre
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Natalie Songer’s Satellites was utterly Spellbinding
23rd Sep 2022
by David Vass
Natalie Songer’s extraordinarily ambitious and complex show took in the vastness of time and space, and yet did so by exploring the most intimate and touching of family stories. Taking inspiration from her family’s hazy,… read more
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This riveting documentary perfectly complements the Corn Hall's latest Art Exhibition
21st Sep 2022
by David Vass
  Paula Rego, Secrets and Stories, a documentary made by her son Nick Willing, was never going to be the usual detached academic dissection of a painter and their work, but neither is this a… read more
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Operation Mincemeat is a resounding success
15th Sep 2022
by David Vass
Ten years ago I read a fascinating book by Ben Macintyre, outlining an extraordinary scheme to trick  Nazi Germany into thinking the allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, rather than their actual target, Sicily.… read more
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Licorice Pizza is a tasty treat
8th Sep 2022
by David Vass
Fans of Paul Thomas Anderson films won’t be disappointed by this leisurely exploration of dysfunctional young love. Like Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights and Inherent Vice it takes its time to work its way into your… read more
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Walker and Styles - a workshop where we dug deep to reveal our own concerns
7th Sep 2022
by David Vass
It’s been a long 18 months since the People’s Cabaret last came to the Corn Hall but back in 2021 (as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival), Jessica Walker came to Diss accompanied only… read more
Posted in Music, Word
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Benedict Cumberbatch gives an electrifying performance
3rd Aug 2022
by David Vass
It turns out that I have Louis Wain to thank for a life in service to my cats – before his whimsical illustrations became popular at the turn on the last century cats were apparently… read more
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Almodóvar is on top form with his latest film
16th Jul 2022
by David Vass
Two mothers, not really parallel at all, come together in this moving melodrama that celebrates the courage of single mothers, while nodding to the unhealed wounds of Spain’s troubled political history. Pedro Almodóvar’s new movie… read more
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Death on the Nile is a sumptuously filmed romp
8th Jul 2022
by David Vass
In the case of Death On The Nile, director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green’s sequel to their polished adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, we get nothing less than the origin story of… read more
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Shaparak Khorsandi delights her audience with gentle good humour and salacious anecdotes
19th Jun 2022
by David Vass
Back in the 90s, there was no social media, no dating sites, and – if we are to believe Shaparak Khorsandi – no shame. In her early twenties Shappi, as she was then known, was… read more
Posted in Comedy
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