LOWCULTURE THEATRE REVIEW OF THE YEAR We’re near the end of 2009 so time to look back on the high and lowlights of the year. The others will be here with more traditional lowculture categories like TV and film, but this year we also started looking at how proper telly talent was appearing on stage [...]
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Another day, another big show starts previews. This time it’s one of Brecht’s most enduring plays, the satire on war profiteering Mother Courage and her Children. Celebrity Lesbian (celesbian?) Fiona Shaw takes on the title role, directed by her frequent collaborator Deborah Warner. And it’s part of the National Theatre’s Travelex season so most tickets [...]
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So yesterday I was supposed to write a review of May Contain Nuts, only within five minutes of it starting I was asleep. Which doesn’t bode well really. So ITV must try harder to keep my attention. I’m sure it was wonderful, what with everyone spending the first episode trying to work out where they’ve [...]
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WIZARDRY! JK Rowling: A Year in the Life, ITV1, 7pm QUIZARDRY! The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, Channel 4, 9pm We have to say, in terms of books, 2007 was a disappointment. We didn’t much rate the latest by Nick Horby, Alice Sebold or Armistead Maupin and we are still on the waiting list [...]
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Amazing facts about the day they’re all calling Tuesday, June 26: » The first Ann Summers shop opened in London on this day in 1972. It was the brainchild of a businessman called Michael Caborn-Waterfield. He reasoned that women might not flock to a shop of that name for their vibrating apparatus, so persuaded his [...]
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Who's the rubbish gay from Cornwall who can't use a shovel? 