 Rachel
Sloane reviews events across Suffolk.
Rachel reviews large professional productions as well as
smaller groups and clubs - including local village hall
productions.
She was a presenter and producer for BBC Radio Suffolk for 17
years and previously worked for Radio Orwell and Saxon
Radio. She is the art correspondent for the East Anglian Daily
Times. If you would like Rachel to review your production you
can
email her by following this link. Her website is
www.rachelsloane.co.uk |
An Ocean of Rain
The premier of An Ocean of
Rain, by Yannis Kyriakides and Daniel Dannis. Snape Maltings
Concert Hall, Friday 13th June 2008.
Beachy Head
Beachy Head performed as
part of the Pulse Fringe Festival at the Wolsey Studio, 29th May
2008. Cutting edge presentation in this drama about a suicide and
its effects. Performed by acclaimed young company
Analogue.
Bellowhead
Bellowhead
Buddy - The Buddy Holly
Story
Spotlight Amateur Musical
Group, Beccles Public Hall until Saturday 28th June. On February
3rd, 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically
died in a plane crash aged 22. This musical tells the story of the
man and his music
Comedy
Prom
Comedy Prom: Tim Minchin at
Snape Maltings Concert Hall 20th August 2008
Cuckoo Teapot
Cuckoo Teapot by Kate
Griffin tells the story of the “Norkies” who each year left Norfolk
and Suffolk to work temporarily in the 27 brewery maltings in
Burton on Trent, returning home with a new suit, stories and a
teapot for their mothers.
Hachfest 2008
report on the Hachfest 2008
festival at Hacheston, Suffok, England
Hallelujah! A World of Sacred
Song
Hallelujah! A World of
Sacred Song, Pakefield Singers and North Suffolk Youth Choir. St
Peter and St John church, Kirkley Saturday 7 July 2008
Ipswich Arts Festival Literary
Events
A round up of the literary
events at this year's IP-Art festival by Christine
Shaw
Lives In Pictures - getting
graphic with novels
The IP-Art Festival brings
three graphic novelists to the Town Hall Galleries for a
conversation with Paul Gravett.
Martin Baker - Celebrity organ
recital
Celebrity Organ Recital by
Martin Baker, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St Edmunds,
Wednesday 21st May 2008, part of the Bury Festival.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady, Suffolk Young
People’s Theatre, The Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 30th production
for Suffolk Young People’s Theatre.
Paul Merton's Impro
Chums
Paul Merton's Impro Chums
at the Corn Exchange Ipswich.
Poetry Prom
Part of the Snape Proms
season at Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Reading Room - Bury
Festival/DanceEast
Reading Room performed by
the Jonathan Lunn Dance Company at the Theatre Royal, Bury St
Edmunds on Wednesday 14th May 2008. Combining contemporary dance
with readings written by Billy Collins, Raymond Carver and Samuel
Beckett with music from Scanner, Slipper/DJ Shadow, Tom Ze, Aphex
Twin and Matmos.
Spend Spend
Spend
Spend Spend Spend - The
Rags to riches to rags story of pools winner Viv Nicholson. The
Gallery Players, New Wolsey Theatre, until Saturday 21st
2008.
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of
Fleet Street
A musical about a gruesome
murderer and pies stuffed with human meat performed by the Irving
Stage Company at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
The life and work of Louis
MacNeice
Peter Carpenter, poet,
critic and editor of Worple Press on the life and work of Louis
MacNeice at the Studio Theatre in Aldeburgh.
Waterbugs and
Dragonflies
“Waterbugs and
Dragonflies”, performed by the Springs Dance Company at Theatre
Royal, Bury St Edmunds on Saturday 12 June 2008.
We didn't mean to go to
sea
“We Didn’t Mean to Go To
Sea”, by Arthur Ransome, adapted by Nick Wood, Eastern Angles,
until Saturday 2nd August 2008.
Working
“Working,” by The Appeal
Theatre Group at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, until Saturday 12th
July.
Young Person's Guide to
the Orchestra
Young Person’s Guide to the
Orchestra by Benjamin Britten, City Of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra, at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Sunday 29th June
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