Rapscallion Magazine THEATRE REVIEW Off-side: Hoke’s Bluff brings out sport’s humour in a bitter sweet tribute to team games
Hoke’s Bluff. Bristol Old Vic Studio Theatre Welcome to Cat Country where Tyler is having trouble at releasing the ball…
Children’s Theatre REVIEW Never work with babies or dead dogs: puppets triumph in Kneehigh’s frenetic show
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love Songs). Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Main House A creative, comical, kaleidoscopic, cacophonie…
Rapscallion Magazine MUSIC REVIEW Laughter and arias fill the town hall; but why did the Berlin Cabaret leave the Kit Kat Club behind?
Berlin Cabaret Axbridge Town Hall With its lists of former mayors inscribed in wooden panels on the walls, it’s newly…
Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW The hurts and wrongs of childhood given voice in Alice Munro’s short stories
Dear Life. By Alice Munro. Subtle with a light touch and minimum of words and fully fleshed, Alice Munro’s characters…
Children’s Theatre PREVIEW RSC’s new season includes Shakespeare’s ‘Dream’ comedy
Get yer Bottom in gear for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in er… 2016) The new season’s highlights include: • Miller…
Rapscallion Magazine FEATURE Loose leaves or tea bag; milk or lemon? And was George Orwell right? The arguments over the making of the perfect cuppa
Was George Orwell right about making tea, or does the University of Nottingham have the know how? Aunt Agatha has…
Rapscallion Magazine BOOK REVIEW The agony and the irony: Guy wanted to be a hero and very nearly did in Evelyn Waugh’s comic World War II triology
Sword of Honour. By Evelyn Waugh. Penguin Classics (1965) The characters simply swagger off the page. Trimmer with his undeserved…
Children’s Theatre PREVIEW The Secret Life of Suitcases: an eccentric play for children at London’s Unicorn Theatre. Opens on 18 September
Larry works in an office and he likes it very much. He likes sorting and tidying and generally putting things…
Rapscallion Magazine FILM REVIEW Parents are such an inconvenience (especially when they drop dead) in Ozu’s daughter-from-hell story
Tokyo Story (1953) She’s bossy, selfish and out for herself. And if you drop dead she’ll go through your stuff…
Rapscallion Magazine TALKING BOOK REVIEW Bill Wallis’ “dunked ginger nut of a voice” reads Illies’ 1913 The Year Before The Storm
1913 The Year Before The Storm. By Florian Illies. Chivers Audiobooks. Read by Bill Wallis. (2013) We draw back the…
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