The Axbridge Anthem
This was a poem I wrote for the 2022 Axbridge Pageant for the script but in the end it wasn’t…
Axbridge News: Adam Clutterbuck’s photos of The Government Inspector prove a hit
By Harry Mottram: Axbridge Community Theatre’s production of Gogol’s The Government Inspector proved a big hit with the sell out…
Axbridge News: this is a not-a-review-review of The Government Inspector in the town hall – but reflections and notes on the cast
‘Gentlemen, I have some bad news. A Government Inspector is on his way.’ And with those words by Tony Wilson…
Axbridge News: evacuee Ukrainians come to see the Ukrainian play The Government Inspector in Axbridge and to meet the cast (and Maринa who is the doctor in the comedy drama)
By Harry Mottram: Axbridge is a long way from Ukraine. But Geography was irrelevant when two evacuee Ukrainians went out…
Axbridge Theatre Review: a 17th century pile-on sees three women executed for witchcraft in Scratchworks Theatre’s Hags in the town hall
Theatre Review: Hags, Axbridge Town Hall. We call them Twitter pile-ons in the new world of call-out culture. A feverish…
Axbridge Review: Christmas starts here! The 2023 Annual Axbridge Progressive Supper is set for 2nd December – but how does it work?
By Harry Mottram: Trying to explain how a progressive supper works is like trying to explain the off-side rule in…
Axbridge Review Comment. Fireworks, books, clothing rails, alcohol: don’t get me started on people who want to ban things (although I have my own list)
There’s been a debate online on the Axbridge Community Face Book site about whether the fireworks sent up above the…
Axbridge Review: Cheddar Reservoir Two is back on the agenda -– with plans to hike the £2.8 billion cost onto its customers
By Harry Mottram: Back in 2018 we thought the Cheddar Reservoir two project was dead. Ofwat had pulled the plug…
Axbridge Review: football, the Furlong Field and the wrench of moving to Axbridge from Bristol – part one of notes on our 26 years of living in the town
By Harry Mottram: My first memory of Axbridge was on the TV news in 1973 when the town became known…
Axbridge Review: a little about the author of the play that is being staged by ACT this November in the Town Hall
By Harry Mottram: Axbridge Community Theatre are staging the classic comedy satire The Government Inspector by the 19th century Ukrainian…