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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Lucy Stevens as Gertrude Lawrence 8th June 2023 @ Town Hall
Andy Fawthrop A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening The Devizes Arts Festival continued last night with another one of those difficult-to-categorise items.… “Gertrude Lawrence: A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening” is the latest collaboration between actor and singer, Lucy Stevens and pianist Elizabeth Marcus. Previously the pair had done similar shows around Ethel… Read more
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Little Big Sax Appeal! Watson and Brown Little Big Band, at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes
By Ian Diddams. Images by Gail Foster Devizonians (if that ain’t a word it is now) will undoubtedly be aware of “The Fulltone Orchestra” and its festival. They may also be aware of the “Fulltone Big Band”, especially if they attended last years August bank holiday festival. They may even be aware very recently of… Read more
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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Aglica Trio 7th June, 2023 @ Town Hall
Classical Comes Calling Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival continued to deliver its wide-ranging programme yesterday. Following tango, folk, opera, talks and drama, Wednesday and Thursday saw the arrival of its two back-to-back classical concerts in The Assembly Room in The Town Hall. It seems like you wait ages for the classical bus to come… Read more
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Preview: Shakespeare’s Henry VI at The Rondo Theatre, Bath
Henry VI by William Shakespeare, Rondo Theatre, July 5th-Sat 8th, 7.30pm. A Preview – by Ian Diddams……. Shakespeare wrote three plays about Henry VI – imaginatively entitled part1, part 2, and part 3. But in true George Lucas style, part 2 was written first, then part 3, with the prequel – part 1, written last.… Read more
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Wiltshire Council Replicate Table Mountain in Devizes Pothole…
…..and other niggly countywide troubles doner meat and chips from Chick-o-Land will stop me ranting about….. Speculation arises if the entire additional £3.6m awarded to Wiltshire Council from the Department for Transport’s Pothole Fund, has been used to fix just the one pothole on Gains Lane, Devizes, opposite Sainsburys, because there’s bugger all sign of… Read more
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REVIEW – Devizes Arts Festival – Onarole Theatre’s Jesus My Boy @ Merchant Suite, Devizes, 6th June 2023
Onarole On A Roll Andy Fawthrop The Devizes Arts Festival is now in full swing. On Day 5 it was time for the first theatre offering of this year’s programme. Onarole (geddit?) Theatre were in the Corny Bin in the shape of Jonathan Darby to present a four-scene one-hander entitled “Jesus My Boy”. It was written by… Read more
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