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I feel increasingly angry about the terrible and tragic Sarah Everard case. Woman walks home and can't. I'm annoyed, that like so many...

So much fun! Dancing human sized chickens that occasionally get in the way of the dance action and have to be booted away; Ruritanian...

Swearing off the scale, but this is a prison set play with hurting characters. Interestingly more f's than you can count, but little...

High octane, high drama ballet! Could see the joins a little (but it was originally created for Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn)....

I didn't know what to expect - first it seemed smooth brother vs craggy brother; one with ambition and ideas, one a more solid family man...

I love opera - everyone is too old, the wrong height and size that society says they should be for the roles and yet leave your disbelief...

I've read some of the #MeToo stories and been saddened and yet thankful I've never experienced anything like it. One day this week, it...

Thrilled to watch Steve McQueen's Small Axe series. The cinematography is amazing - not only are the tones rich, but it's the way the...

My first Glyndebourne opera. Didn't enjoy this as much as other Rossini and Verdi operas as the music and bonkerness of the plot don't...

- One (hundred) business cards – somewhere in the post… One Flu jab – which has made a huge difference I think in keeping chesty snotty...

When Tiers cause you tears at Christmas, watch old Bond movies! Less of a fan of this one because we're back to old school sexist Bond...

When Tiers leave you in tears and all your Christmas plans get cancelled by Tier changes, what can you do...but watch a Bond film? In...

A Handel opera first performed at Covent Garden in 1735 - now back again after a 285 year wait! Semi-staged and acted out, it is part...

https://youtu.be/sfM7_JLk-84 This movie has been slated and sneered at - clearly we watched a different version!!! I loved it - perhaps...

Or Punching The Air Whilst Reading Talking Back to Purity Culture... (I Blame Roy Williams) As Delroy says in Death of England – he’s...

https://youtu.be/yVuCKaetRss So, so glad I got to see this - even for one night only....Roy Williams and Clint Dyer, you have made me cry...

History series with a difference - a) Samuel L Jackson; b) marine archaeology c) archaeology! Intelligent presentation utilising...

No idea what's going on with the costumes, but the artists rise above the raiding of the dressing up costumes from home and act out at a...

Royal Opera House are doing really marvellous things in keeping culture going whilst breaking down cultural barriers. As part of their...

Inventing the selfie face; struggling with sizing head and body in some images; starting again and reusing copper for a better print;...