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Townsend Productions latest is another hit with our reviewer, David Vass
7th Mar 2018
by Corn Hall admin
We Are the Lions, Mr Manager! Townsend Productions’ latest play sees the further development of Neil Gore as a writer of increasing confidence and individuality. In this unapologetic polemic, we still got his signature mix… read more
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Dan Cruickshank - from heartbreaking destruction of Palmyra to the delights of Diss
4th Mar 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Anyone coming to the Corn Hall expecting a dry, sober lecture on the history of world architecture through one hundred iconic buildings might have been a little taken aback by Dan Cruickshank’s exhilarating roller coaster… read more
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Churchill - A preview of the Wednesday film
2nd Feb 2018
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Winston Churchill, consumed with guilt over the tragedy of Gallipoli, remained opposed to the D-day Normandy invasion of 1944 up until the eve of the landing. Famously, it was judged the turning point of the… read more
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My Cousin Rachel - a preview
21st Jan 2018
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Screening this Wednesday 24th January, Corn Hall previewer David Vass praises this new adaptation of du Maurier's classic tale. There must be something about Daphne du Maurier’s lean prose that lends itself to film adaptation,… 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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Young Marx - A Preview
11th Jan 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Karl Marx had been thrown out of Prussia, Germany, France and Belgium by the time he made a home for himself in London’s Soho, a tiny refuge for European dissidents that Richard Bean and Clive… read more
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The Sense of an Ending - A Preview
5th Jan 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Notionally based on Julian Barnes’s novel of the same name, Ritesh Batra has refashioned Barnes’s meta-story of intrigue and misdirection into a compact and arresting puzzle that progresses with a pleasingly oblique trajectory. In place… read more
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Great Family Fun - Aladdin at the Corn Hall
22nd Dec 2017
by Corn Hall admin
As the first year of the newly refurbished Corn Hall draws to a close, it seems only fitting that the occasion be marked with resolutely old fashioned Pantomime. Handsomely staged and dressed, Aladdin brought songs,… read more
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A woman of no importance review
13th Dec 2017
by Corn Hall admin
This was the first of several Oscar Wilde revivals by Clear Spring, a company dedicated to celebrating work written and performed under the proscenium arch, and therefore needs to be seen as an education as… read more
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Baby Driver - A preview
24th Nov 2017
by Corn Hall admin
Edgar Wright is best known for his collaboration with Simon Pegg on the Cornetto trilogy, and though his first solo venture, Scott Pilgrim, was a cult success it was also a commercial disaster. This time… read more
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