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Photo by Dan John Lloyd BULLYACHE’s evening of emotional ballads, expressed through a medley of dance mediums, knows its audience. When drag artist Barbs walks onto a reductive nightclub version [...]

Gaza ~ In July, a heart-wrenching image of Hidayat Al-Motawaq holding her malnourished 18-month-old son, Mohammad Al-Motawaq, went viral, becoming emblematic of a crisis that has introduced [...]

Southern Charm …it’s with a sombre mood that I’m penning the penultimate blog of this quartet on Reality TV. This is partly because all the fizzy, heavy hitters are now on summer recess – [...]

Hi, I’m Tamsin ~ a senior public relations and strategic stakeholder communications professional with a rich background in PR and multichannel campaign strategy/delivery for: social impact, [...]

Below Deck Down Under Let’s talk about islands, or at least distant places where the waterline is visible on waking, and sand, softer than a grainy sandwich in Margate, is a footstep from your [...]

Guilty pleasures TV – The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives   This blog is for pure unadulterated pleasure – it bears no relationship to my theatre writing-making, the life of the poetry scene or [...]

Photo of Matthew Keeler, Rosie Strobel & Elliot Broadfoot by Alex Brenner. It’s time for a Bonaparty according to the vision of Charles Court Opera’s indefatigable composing/writing duo [...]

When actress Noel Streatfield put pen to paper to write her seminal children’s book Ballet Shoes, she did so at the most exciting time for the evolution of national Ballet in England, and it is [...]

It’s nice to be invited to work by an emerging company in one of those of festivals that is teeming with new talent – it reminds me that we are all part of the same eco-system and experience [...]

Credit: Graeme Miall.   Social prescribers should take note of Clod Ensemble and Nu Civilisation Orchestra’s interactive dance extravaganza, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, hosted, [...]