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  • Couture meets community at Teresa Si fashion house

    Couture meets community at Teresa Si fashion house0

    Whisper it – couture has arrived in Surbiton. Fashion house Teresa Si has launched its new collection in the elegant surroundings of The Sanctuary. An appreciative audience saw founder and creative director Teresa Scognamiglio, pictured, reveal her latest gowns which have been inspired by the mosaics of Herculaneum and Pompeii. There were gasps and applause

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  • You’re being watched!

    You’re being watched!0

    • Arts
    • 13th November 2024

    Big Brother is watching us! Theatregoers at the opening night of a week-long adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 at Richmond Theatre found themselves in the unrelenting gaze of surveillance cameras for 15 minutes before curtain-up. As we flicked through the programme, chatted to neighbours, scratched our ears or stared vacantly into space, every movement was

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  • Fundraiser for film on grief

    Fundraiser for film on grief0

    Actress Rea Mole is raising funds for a film about grief which is to be shot and screened at the cornerHOUSE arts centre in Surbiton where she performed as a child. Rea, who grew up in Ellerton Road and who went to Tolworth Girls’ School, has written Starlight, a short film which explores grief through finding

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  • Party time at the Rose

    Party time at the Rose0

    Mike Leigh’s feast of agonising drunken smalltalk, Abigail’s Party, is back on stage at Kingston’s Rose, with Laura Rogers playing the deliciously excruciating hostess Beverley – the part that Alison Steadman made her own in the beloved TV version. The suburban satire is so cemented in the collective conscience from that masterful 1977 BBC adaption

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  • Spellbinding drama at the Rose

    Spellbinding drama at the Rose0

    • Arts
    • 26th September 2024

    To grab an audience and hold them spellbound for two and a half hours in our world of short soundbites and glanced memes is a rare thing. Never Let Me Go, at Kingston’s Rose, does just that, thanks to a sharp script (Suzanne Heathcote), pacy direction (Chris Haydon) and a whirl of outstanding performances, notably

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  • Glass half full

    Glass half full0

    An absorbing revival of Tennessee Williams’ intense family drama The Glass Menagerie offers some strong performances as director Atri Banerjee tries to modernise a dated story. Kingston’s Rose is the venue (until May 4) of this minimalist touring production which builds in tension and focus through a powerful second half to a curiously flat ending.

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