I meet Rosie Thomas and Ella Nokes, co-directors of Shotgun Theatre’s upcoming show “Made in Dagenham”, at 9am on the Monday of exam week. The day is the first – and last – term time break in a monster rehearsal schedule which has consumed hours of the cast and crew’s lives since September; a reprieve […]
Spotlight
A night at the Oscars
Sunday 28 February marked the 88th Academy Awards ceremony, which took place in Los Angeles, USA. The heavily publicised awards ceremony saw a whole host of stars compete for the coveted golden man: whilst some stars finally achieved the recognition they have (arguably) long deserved, others were left sorely disappointed as some shock wins were […]
A night at the BAFTAs
It’s that time of the year once again; awards season. With the Oscars just a fortnight down the road, many film fanatics look to the BAFTAs (that’s British Academy of Film and Television Awards, acronym fans!) as an indicator to who will win the coveted prizes in the film industry. There were few surprises as […]
Review: Spotlight
S potlight is not, in any sense, an uplifting film-and probably not one ideal for Saturday night viewing, as I discovered. Then again, its subject matter is sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, so what did I expect? It is 2001, and the Boston Globe newspaper has a new editor, Marty Baron (Live Schreiber.) Fresh […]
Art to Art: Natasha Hemmings
Some of my first inspiration for art came from wildlife artist Peter Blackwell. Peter lives near to me in Kenya and his paintings are dotted around our house. He is widely known in Kenya and first built up his reputation as a watercolor bird specialist. His work on birds inspired me to do a bird […]