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Review: The Importance of Being Earnest – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Alice Fowler There are few frothier yet more enjoyably acerbic plays than Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Its lines are so quotable – and quoted – that…

There’s So Much Going On At Music And Arts Venue The Boileroom

By Louisa Magnussen From live broadcasts from Radio 6 and Annie Mac to the chilled out alternative folk sounds of This Is The Kit, the Boileroom in Stoke Fields, Guildford,…

Film Review: Darkest Hour

By Dennis Harvey-Hepherd Darkest Hour is the story of the few days when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister to the end of the Dunkirk evacuation. I found this to be…

Memorial Service at Cathedral for Late Theatre Director, James Barber

A memorial service is to be held next Monday (January 29, 2018) for James Barber, the late theatre director of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre who died suddenly in December. The…

Film Review: The Post – Guildford Odeon

By Dennis Harvey-Hepherd The Post (The Washington Post) is a thriller set in the immediate pre-Watergate Washington of Richard Nixon. The story is set in the newsroom of the Washington…

When The Odeon Hosted Larry Parnes’ Pop Package Tours In The Early 1960s

Dave Reading recalls the pop package tours that hit Guildford during the early 1960s Before Brian Epstein gave us the Beatles, there was Larry Parnes. The intense fan frenzy that…

Film Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Guildford Odeon

By Dennis Harvey-Hepherd Three Billboards is an intriguing tale about a mother unable to come to terms with the murder of her daughter and the failure of the local police…

Stage Review: Private Lives – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

By Ferenc Hepp Now that the weeks of boos and hisses, flashing batons and local radio presenters in dresses are well and truly over, the new season opened this week…

Film Review: The Greatest Showman

By Dennis Harvey-Hepherd This is a musical biopic about the life of legendary showman P T Barnum. It is a delightful example of a modern musical, with toe tapping melodies…

Memories Of 1970s Rock Band Unicorn Whose Founder Members Came from Send And Ockham

By David Rose Fans of rock music from the 1970s may remember Unicorn, a local band, that made some great albums, but unfortunately never had the fame they justly deserved.…