Put out more Flags by Evelyn Waugh For an insight into wartime Britain Put out more Flags by Evelyn Waugh is a good read. Written in 1941 and published a year later it tells the stories of a collection of mainly middle class men and women who are in part idol in nature, flippant about […]
Tomorrow by Graham Swift Pity Mike in Graham Swift’s matriarchal nocturnal reflections of his wife Paula’s monologue as he spends the entire 300 pages fast asleep and worse still being talked about as though he wasn’t there. Paula’s internal monologue concerns her decision to spill a long held secret from her two children who have […]
The Empty Space by Peter Brook In 150 odd pages Peter Brook spells out his thoughts on four types of theatre: the deadly, the holy, the rough and the immediate. He could easily have done it in 50 pages such is the density of his thought process. His essential theme is that theatre should be […]
Before Axbridge Square was laid out in its present form when it was a car park Axbridge Square has been a the site of a Saxon fort or burh, essentially a fortified town with its own mint and garrison in pre-Norman Britain and a car park in the 1970s. Images of the town’s square reveal […]
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium which focuses on the work of the 16th century printers Christophe Plantin and Jan Moretus. Harry Mottram went to the city to find out about the man who managed to gain contracts to print books for the Pope despite being in a Protestant city in […]
Ripley Antiques Pop-up Bistro Number 10. Axbridge, Somerset I’m not sure how Jules, Lou and Sally do it. Their kitchen is tiny, they have to move large amounts of antiques to fit the diners in and they have to serve the food at speed with the minimum of fuss. A lot of restaurants fail to […]
Pintxo. Tapas and Sherry Bar. Barton Street, Bath We had originally sat down in The Garrick’s Head by the Theatre Royal Bath on Saturday lunch time but with no sign of service and curtain up fast approaching next door for the play God of Carnage we left thinking a packet of crisps and sandwich from […]
God of Carnage, Theatre Royal Bath The knives (or rather the sharpened spears) are out in Yasmina Reza’s savage black comedy which sets two sets of parents at each other’s throats. An assembly of spears hangs above the stylish round lounge designed by Peter McKintosh in Lindsay Posner’s production of Reza’s God of Carnage. The […]
Old. By Jo Tilley. “Hello I’m Jo Tilley, I’m 34, I’m single and I’m looking for a man.” The creator and director of the sitcom Old screened at the Axbridge Roxy Cinema on Thursday August 23rd 2018 introduced the premier with a bit of her stand-up comedy. She had a good line in being single […]
The official sitcom of Old is being screened in Axbridge on Thursday, August 23rd, 2018, at the Roxy Cinema. Written by Joanna Tilley (@JoannaTilley) the comedy was filmed at The Old Parsonage in Axbridge and features at least two local actors: Diane Lukins and Janie Gray. Here’s a link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKcz5o697t4
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Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW: Evelyn Waugh’s satire of Phoney War Britain Put Out More Flags was written while the Second World War’s outcome was still in doubt giving it an
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I began writing plays after writing and directing two pantomimes in 1997 and 1998 for my community in Axbridge. Following this I wrote The House on The Square in
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RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE – THEATRE REVIEW: vomit, violence and how to bring up your children in a lively production of Yasmina Reza’s black comedy God of Carnage at the Theatre Royal
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