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Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: a game of two halves in RSC’s Much Ado About Nothing with bling, balls, boobs – but no escaping the daft plot and misogynist Tudor morals

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Rapscallion Magazine Book Review: A troubled marriage, a brutal battle and the ignorance of the British expats in 1940s Egypt in Olivia Manning’s The Levant Trilogy as the Nazis threaten to invade, but it’s all about Harriet and Guy Pringle

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By Harry Mottram: We claim to be a nation of animal lovers and often turn our disdain for barbaric sports…

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Bath Voice News: the city’s Fringe Festival gears up for a celebration of the arts with weeks of workshops, music gigs, comedy, children’s shows and drama

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MAY 19, 2023 Bath Fringe Festival: The festival runs from Friday May 26th to Sunday June 11th.The Bath Fringe is…

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Bath Voice News: calls for more people to sponsor Ukrainian refugees at special event in Bath as the city consolidates links with embattled city of Oleksandriya as the horrors of war continue

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MAY 18, 2023 By Harry Mottram: The leader of the Council Cllr Kevin Guy had a meeting this Tuesday with Zhenya…

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Bath Voice News: The Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition, now in its 118th year, runs at the Victoria Art Gallery until 24 June 2023

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MAY 17, 2023 Bath Society of Artists at the Victoria Art Gallery: The Bath Society of Artists Annual Open Exhibition,…

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Bath Voice News: Q@A interview with the actors who tackle the controversy over Samuel Beckett’s play that banned women from staging it

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MAY 16, 2023 By Harry Mottram: On Thursday, 22nd June, three actors will take to the stage at the Ustinov Studio…

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Bath Voice Business News: doughnuts, beer plaudits, retail news and Bath Rugby’s plans for a revised stadium

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MAY 15, 2023 By Harry Mottram Beer news: Brewer Abbey Ales in Bath have won plaudits at this year’s Taste of…

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Harry Mottram Opinion for ICSM: reflections on fashionable business sectors that rise and fall like the dot-com bubble as new media Vice and Motherboard collapse

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By Harry Mottram: Remember the dotcom bubble? When dot-com firms saw their value increase making the owners paper millionaires in the…

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Rapscallion Magazine Theatre Review: men, money and microphones in a brilliantly funny and affectionate feminist deconstruction of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

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Review: Pride and Prejudice (*sort of). Bristol Old Vic It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single novel by Jane…

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Bath Voice Theatre Review: stand up, stand up – they’re rocking the boat! BODS bring a sensational production of Guys and Dolls to a full house at the Theatre Royal Bath

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MAY 10, 2023 Review: Guys and Dolls at Theatre Royal Bath Big set piece song and dance numbers, snappy lines,…

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Bath Voice News: how the local elections have seen a sea change in British politics and in Bath and North East Somerset in particular

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  • Publications
    • Axbridge Review
      • Axbridge Pageant 2029
      • Comment
      • Features
        • ACT’s early days
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant 2022
        • Axbridge Pageant archive
        • Axbridge Pageant Features
        • Axbridge Square
        • Axbridge Square in 1952
        • Basle Air Disaster
        • Books and wine
        • Building Cheddar Reservoir
        • Litter picking in the rain
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 1
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 2
        • Megan’s Axbridge Part 3
        • Progressive Supper Details
        • Progressive Supper Review
      • News
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      • Somerset News
    • Bath Voice
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      • Bath Voice Theatre Reviews
      • Bath Voice What’s On
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      • Places Reviewed
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    • Beautiful Brides
      • Editing Beautiful Brides Magazine
    • Bristol News
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      • Theatre Previews
      • Theatre Reviews
    • Checkaco Consumer News
    • Children’s Theatre
      • Features
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      • REVIEWS: Books
      • REVIEWS: Films
      • REVIEWS: Theatre
      • The Magazine
      • Theatre Reviews
      • Videos
    • ICSM Business News
    • Print Monthly
    • Somerset Life
    • Strawberry Line Times
      • Cheddar Reservoir
      • Features
        • 1981 floods
        • Age of the train is returning
        • Along the line in 1899
        • Banwell bombed
        • Beaching rail closures
        • Birnbeck Pier: a brief history
        • Blue remembered hills
        • Bridgwater Carnival numbers
        • Bridgwater Railway Hotel
        • Bridgwater’s old pubs
        • Bristol’s own Bluebell girl
        • Building Cheddar reservoir in the 1930s
        • Burnham footballers
        • Coffee on the line
        • Fish and Chips
        • Highbridge at war
        • Highbridge Caravans
        • How far can the Strawberry Line go?
        • How to make the perfect cuppa
        • Jilted bride
        • Looking Back in Pictures
        • Miss Emily Fazerkerley
        • Old Highbridge recalled
        • Quantock memories
        • Railway workers of Cheddar
        • Renegades Carnival Club
        • Somerset’s Italian POWs
        • The Big Freeze
        • Then and Now
        • Transforming the line
        • Walk around the Res
      • News
      • Reviews
        • Reviews Music
        • REVIEWS: Books
        • REVIEWS: Books – Non Fiction
        • REVIEWS: Cinema
        • REVIEWS: food and drink
        • REVIEWS: Poetry
        • REVIEWS: talking books
        • REVIEWS: Theatre
        • REVIEWS: Video
      • The Magazine
      • Videos
    • West Country Riders
    • Western Daily Press
  • Rapscallion Magazine
    • Features
      • 36 Hours in Rome’s Airport
      • Bad New Year’s Resolutions
      • Beautiful Brides Magazine
      • Ben Nevis and Poo Rock
      • Confessions of an art student
      • Dodgy keepers
      • Don’t punch the critic
      • Drunk Goldilocks
      • Dying for a pee
      • Edward Colston’s statue
      • Footballing nuns
      • Holiday hell
      • Indigenous Australians
      • Maggie Smith
      • Mum on TV
      • Night with Sasha
      • Nobody fell over
      • Perfect cuppa
      • Tenby Part 1
      • The Bag Lady
      • The Spiv
      • Tourists in Rome
    • Opinion
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Cinema
      • Radio
      • Theatre
      • TV
    • The Magazine
      • 2015 08 August Issue 1
      • 2015 09 September Issue 2
      • 2015 10 October Issue 3
      • 2015 11 November Issue 4
      • 2016 07 July Issue 05
      • 2017 01 January
      • 2020 12 Rapscallion Magazine December
      • 2021 11 November Rapscallion
      • 2022 07 Rapscallion
      • 2022 11 November
      • 2023 01 January Issue 12
      • Rapscallion Magazine 13 May 2023