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Dragon Book Review: The Truth Has Arms And Legs by Local Author, Alice Fowler

By Hugh Coakley This is a delightful and beautifully written book of short stories of yearning and discovering and of defiance and independence. The Truth Has Arms And Legs by…

Stage Dragon Review: Henry V in the ‘Austere Splendour’ of Guildford Cathedral

By Alice Fowler The austere splendour of Guildford Cathedral lends its own majesty to Guildford Shakespeare Company’s first summer production, Henry V. As the snow-white shirt of Henry (Gavin Fowler)…

Stage Dragon Review: Tosca by Grange Park Opera ‘New and Heart-Stopping’

By Alice Fowler There are stirring, sensual operas – and then there is Tosca. Puccini’s feast of jealousy, passion, torture, abusive power and lust has transfixed audiences since its first…

Stage Dragon Review: Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera) at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Ferenc Hepp I dare you not to shake with laughter in your seat and not to leave the theatre with a huge smile on your face. Tony! [The Tony…

Stage Dragon Review: Brief Encounter Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Ferenc Hepp The scene – a 1940s railway station cafe. There is a chance meeting. Dr Alec Harvey (Jammy Kasongo), in gentlemanly fashion, removes some grit from Laura Jesson’s…

Dragon Book Review: The Fox, the Whale and the Wardrobe – a Collection of Poems by Dónall Dempsey

By Hugh Coakley The launch of a new book, The Fox the Whale and the Wardrobe, by local poet Dónall Dempsey treated the invited audience to poems and songs of children…

Stage Dragon Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Ference Hepp The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is well known to many from a 2012 film featuring Dame Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith, among other famous names,…

Stage Dragon Review: The way Old Friends Do at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Ferenc Hepp The Birmingham Rep production of The Way Old Friends Do presented by James Seabright in association with Jason Haigh-Ellery and Park Theatre is stopping off at the…

An Architectural View: The Abbotswood Estate

All permanent settlements are collections of buildings and the style of the buildings can become representative of the areas they are in and the communities they serve, so architecture is…

GSC’s ‘Vanquo’ to Help Travelling Players

By Alice Fowler Guildford’s award-winning theatre company, Guildford Shakespeare Company, is riding high, thanks to the purchase of a new van. The vehicle, nicknamed Vanquo, will allow GSC to extend…