Fire rages at garden centre
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
If ever a show was devised to persuade millennials and Gen Z that theatre isn’t for fuddy-duddies, The House Party – at Kingston’s Rose until March 22 – is it. Brash, bold and boisterous, Laura Lomas’s play (go for a wee beforehand, it runs without an interval for 1hr 40mins) is billed as a reworking
READ MOREMike 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
READ MOREOne of the more unlikely village hall talks you’re likely to encounter is taking place this month. The topic? A woman who was executed for spying, for – effectively – refusing to dob in her husband. It marks the launch of the Book Box series at St Mary’s, Long Ditton. Ethel Rosenburg: A Cold War
READ MOREFelicity Kendal, star of the hit 1970s sitcom The Good Life which put Surbiton on everyone’s radar, will be launching the St Andrew’s and St Mark’s virtual Christmas auction. Those who attend on Zoom on Saturday (December 12) at 2pm, will see Felicity, who played Barbara Good in the show about suburban self-sufficiency, declare the
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