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Reduced Shakespeare Company's irreverent triumph

1:12pm Friday 14th November 2008

IT wasn’t the first time I’d seen this Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) version of the Bible – but it might have well as been.

Rambert leap into action for Malvern show

Ballet Rambert present Eternal Light at Malvern

2:05pm Thursday 13th November 2008

AFTER a record-breaking season in London last year, Rambert Dance Company returns to Malvern on November 19-22 with a brand new programme, including Eternal Light and a dramatic revival of Christopher Bruce’s outstanding and hugely popular Swansong.

A wry look at the body beautiful

The Protein Dance Company will be bouncing into Hereford.

2:10pm Thursday 13th November 2008

DEAR Body, the latest project from Protein Dance Company, is a witty satire on our growing obsession with body care and image.

Quartet played with maturity belying their youth

1:51pm Thursday 13th November 2008

FORMED only three years ago, the British-based Brodowski Quartet has already won several important international prizes and the Hereford Concert Society performance at The Courtyard showed why.

Gus gets all fired up

John Read tours village halls with Anorak of Fire this month

1:58pm Thursday 13th November 2008

GUS Gascoigne’s life is dominated by trainspotting and has been from the moment he heard his first train from his pram. His obsession with trains has left him with something of a one-track mind, which leaves him oblivious to all the finer nuances of the world around him.

A golden moment for string orchestra

Associate conductor Hazel Davis

1:48pm Thursday 13th November 2008

FIFTY years ago, a music master at Kingstone School sounded out string players in the county to see if there was enough interest to start an advanced evening class for strings.

Line-up guaranteed to get you moving

1:49pm Thursday 13th November 2008

BOKA Halat, a storming dance and concert band playing English folk melodies on fiddle and melodeon and Gambian rhythm section (sabars, djembe, bongo etc) are appearing at Gwernyfed Drama Studio at Three Cocks, Glasbury, on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Words provide the spark for Shellie

Words provide the spark for Shellie

1:32pm Thursday 13th November 2008

THE titles Shellie Byatt gives to her work provide the clue to where the ideas for her images come from.

Like father, like son

Matt Monro Jr

11:27am Wednesday 12th November 2008

MATT Monro was blessed with a golden voice, creating unforgettable memories with songs that included Born Free, From Russia With Love and the Impossible Dream, Portrait Of My Love and sold 100 million records.

An ingenious production of a fantasy world

1:27pm Tuesday 11th November 2008

TIM Hopkins’s touring production of Offenbach’s last opera The Tales of Hoffmann, staged by Mid-Wales Opera at The Courtyard on Wednesday, November 5, offered an ingenious take on this tricky work.

Show coincides with Armistice anniversary

Bosbury Players prepare for their production of Oh What a Lovely War

3:08pm Monday 10th November 2008

Bosbury Players’ 2008 production of Oh! What a Lovely War has been timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the 1918 Armistice.

A thriller that's hard to resist

A thriller that is hard to resist

3:02pm Monday 10th November 2008

THIS month's book group selection is Resistance by Abergavenny-born author, Owen Sheers IT is 1944, the D-Day landings have failed and while large swathes of Britain are occupied, London is still resisting the invading forces.

New designers take centre stage at craft fair

Bowls by Virginia Graham

2:55pm Monday 10th November 2008

AMONG the 56 exhibitors at this year’s Hereford Contemporary Craft Fair are two recent graduates of Hereford College of Arts – artist blacksmith Ambrose Burne and jeweller Fiona Mitcham, both of whom create unique, distinctive and highly collectable pieces.

Courtyard rocks for one night only

Undercover Hippy appears as The Courtyard Presents a night of live music

10:23am Monday 10th November 2008

FOLLOWING the phenomenal success of last year’s Courtyard Presents, the seats have once again been taken out for another great night of top live music in the main house.

Jazz trio in Presteigne

1:36pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

WILL Butterworth, a jazz pianist whose debut CD earned a three star review from the influential Jazzwise magazine, will be bringing a trio featuring drums and saxophone to Presteigne for a one-off gig at the Assembly Rooms tomorrow, Friday.


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Frank's home performance

Event to benefit forces charity

Dan lends his support to Remembrance services

Quartet at The Courtyard




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