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GSC Intends to Conquer Al Fresco as Restrictions Ease
By Alice Fowler Outdoor theatre, one of the great pleasures of the English summer, is set to make a welcome return to Guildford. Guildford Shakespeare Company will stage Oliver Goldsmith’s…
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Celebrates Funding Success
The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre has been awarded a grant of £458,000 from the government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The grants, distributed by Arts Council England are to support cultural…
Feature: Good News From the GPO
The sun is shining, trees are in blossom, the end of lockdown is in sight, it’s nearly Easter and it’s almost time for the Grange Park Opera, Surrey season –…
Review: L’heure Espagnole – Grange Park Opera
By Alice Fowler One of the compensations of lockdown – yes, there have been one or two – has been the proliferation of superb musical and theatrical performances free to…
Stage Dragon: ‘Once More Unto the Breach’, GSC to Re-run Henry V
By Alice Fowler “When we work together, the impossible is possible, a sentiment that has never been more significant,” this is the powerful message of unity and hope contained in…
Ivan the Terrible Comes to Surrey
Grange Park Opera, which has responded to the challenges of Covid-19 by making its productions accessible online, has announced a new collaboration with the Romanoff Foundation. The Foundation, a UK-based…
Local Author Finding Success After Self-publishing
By Alice Fowler Guildford author Maddy Glenn is celebrating the publication of her first novel, On the Edge. Her novel, which she describes as an easy-going fantasy, tells the story…
Hidden History Of Surrey’s Travelling People Revealed
Book review by David Rose Surrey Census of Nomads, 1913, edited by Alan Wright. Published by the Surrey Record Society, hardback £20. Just over 100 years ago Surrey was a…
Stage Dragon: GSC’s Online A Christmas Carol Has Plenty of Seasonal Magic
By Alice Fowler With Tier 4 just announced, my seasonal spirits were in danger of slipping. Could the Guildford Shakespeare Company, with their new online production of A Christmas Carol,…
Stage Dragon: Owen Wingrave – Grange Park Opera
By Alice Fowler Owen Wingrave is Benjamin Britten’s ‘ghost opera’: a heart-rending tale of a young man who refuses to submit to the straitjacket of familial traditions and expectations. Written…
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