April 2019 – Harry Mottram

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Rapscallion Magazine – Theatre Review: Axbridge Community Theatre’s staging of Alan Aykbourn’s critique of 80s Britain champions two female survivors of the decade in a feisty family drama

Apr 24, 2019 harrymottram

Time of My Life. By Alan Ayckbourn staged by Axbridge Community Theatre SET originally in the 1980s but staged in…

RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: How it all went wrong for the Labour Party in John O’Farrell’s reflections of the last 20 years of British politics (with wit, wisdom and a few political blind spots)

Apr 14, 2019 harrymottram

Things Can Only Get Worse?, by John O’Farrell No wonder John O’Farrell found it so hard to like Jeremy Corbyn…

Rapscallion Magazine Film Review: A Cold War episode revealing the unsmiling and single-mindedly selfish ballet genius Rudolf Nureyev – complete with a gripping climax (plus exuberant dancing – contrasting with the stifling authoritarianism of the Soviet Union)

Apr 13, 2019 harrymottram

The White Crow. The Electric Cinema, Birmingham Perhaps it was that freezing Siberian childhood as Oleg Ivenko’s portrayal of Rudolf…

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