The Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme makes Motor Show sound
like some kind of performance petting event: the reality is more sensitive
and delicate than that.
Now a regular part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival the
Spiegeltent is a venerable touring venue, said to be a century old. Dr Teeth
definitely gave the old girl a workout on Friday night.
An early outrider to this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Submerged-Spaces is a series of video installations hosted at three city venues.
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Everything has its place and time: sometimes you want thought-provoking drama, evocative romance or weep-enducing tragedy. And sometimes you want a laugh.
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Terry Alderton is an odd man. And this was an odd show.
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Some comics take a ponderous pace, carefully building to a crescendo; their act is finely wrought and honed over agonising hours of rehearsal and contemplation.
Explore MoreIf there’s one phrase that describes Matthew Bourne’s
imaginative retelling of the Nutcracker, it’s “oral feast”.
For a man who professes to dislike the internet so much, Stewart Lee is an ardent fan on one of its trendiest aspects: the meme.
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Americans are all too often the butt of easy jokes these days. Rich Hall is one very good reason why they shouldn’t be.
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Steve Hughes opened his set at Norwich Playhouse tonight with a joke about the length of the flight between his native Australia and the UK.
Explore MoreIt don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing — and
these boys have plenty.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
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It’s one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, a timeless story of tragic love. Moscow City Ballet’s performance of Romeo and Juliet is robbed of the famous poetry, substituting for it Prokofiev’s score and Victor Smirnov-Golovanov’s skilful direction and choreography.
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Shakespeare’s plays are often crudely divided between comedies and tragedies; the director of this latest production of Twelfth Night clearly didn’t get that memo.
Explore MoreRarely has the Theatre Royal stage’s potential been so richly
exploited as in Stephen Daldry’s production of An Inspector Calls.