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- 17th July 2020
Oscar Wilde’s witty farce The Importance of Being Earnest has been given a vigorous twist at Kingston’s Rose, with a black cast directed by Denzel Westley-Sanderson. Lady Bracknell is played like a pantomime dame by drag queen Daniel Jacob, whose exaggerated camp gestures and mobile eyebrows almost seem superfluous in a show in which Wilde’s
READ MOREThe Graham Potter era at Chelsea is beginning to look good. Yes, it’s early days, but a 3-0 win against AC Milan in midweek followed by a shuffled team and another 3-0 victory against Wolves at the weekend must generate optimism. Fans left both games with a real spring in their step. Mind you, after
READ MOREHear more about the Wild Tolworth Project at a free event at Surbiton’s cornerHOUSE tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct 5). Citizen Zoo¸ the area’s rewilding group, believes Tolworth Court Farm Fields, a 50 hectare site opposite the new Lidl HQ in Tolworth, could be one of London’s greatest nature reserves. It wants to update local residents and
READ MOREPic: Chelsea FC After the season’s bizarre opening fixture at Liverpool, which Chelsea Women lost 2-1 in a blizzard of penalties, yet another penalty clinched three points for the Blues, with Maren Mjelde clinching a 2-0 win over arch-rivals Man City. Chelsea dominated last weekend’s game, but – as seems to be the way while
READ MORENicholas Woodeson is perfectly cast as the future Pope Francis in The Two Popes at the Rose All pictures: Manuel Harlan Warning: incense. An unlikely audience caution ahead of a play, but as the curtains part on Anthony McCarten’s The Two Popes at Kingston’s Rose, aromatic smoke does permeate the auditorium. It’s a sumptuous, absorbing
READ MOREMaybe it’s an indication of how the women’s game is growing, but even the stadium announcer sounded surprised when he tannoyed, midway through the second half of the pre-season friendly between Chelsea and Spurs, that 2,400 people had turned up to Kingsmeadow. The Blues won the match comfortably, with the fact that the scoreline was
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