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Party time at the Rose 0
- Arts, News
- 7th November 2024
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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Poster girl champions plastic solution 0
- Environment, News
- 30th October 2024
She’s the poster girl for Surbiton’s waste-not, want-not community. And now she is literally that – a poster girl! Sage Parmar, the driving force behind Sage’s health store – the organic, sustainable grocery shop in Brighton Road which champions zero waste – is the face of a What’s Your Plastic Solution? campaign. You can see
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New Kingston Town Square business hub opens by river 0
- Environment, News
- 29th July 2024
Location, Location, Location. Great river views, 62 workstations, a board room, five stand-alone offices, two Zoom pods, super-fast wi-fi, business and admin support, bottomless tea and coffee, a café, showers… and a spot right in the heart of Kingston – even Kirstie Allsopp would be impressed. Town Square Spaces Kingston, a new workspace and enterprise
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Glass half full 0
- Arts
- 19th April 2024
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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Take a punt…0
- Sport
- 13th March 2024
The beautiful varnished boats are works of art in themselves, but Dittons Skiff and Punting Club, in its centenary year, is very much an active sporting enterprise. Based next to The Albany pub in Thames Ditton, its purpose-built clubhouse, gym and boathouse is the envy of other Thames outfits as a new season on the
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Macbeth’s gory reimagining 0
- Arts
- 13th March 2024
Perplexingly stark, but mesmerizingly watchable, Zinnie Harris’s reworking of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Macbeth (An Undoing), at Kingston’s Rose (until Mar 23) puts the focus on Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper) in a gory exploration of guilt, madness and power shifts. By the end the cast are using mops and buckets to scrub blood from the stage,
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