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A Streetcar named Desire - 2nd Thoughts Theatre Company.
I was lucky enough thanks to a friend of mine to get hold of a ticket for this production by Stratford's Second Thoughts Theatre group and I have to say, 'who was a lucky boy then?' I also have to say that (head hung in shame), I originally I thought...
Red is the colour...
I really couldn’t believe my eyes when I came across this bucket of poo from two Stratford upon Avon so-called Entrepreneurs Messrs Woodward and Steel. Their recently set up a piece of nonsense that goes by the name of Internet Spies – sorry Inte...
Come back America all is forgiven.
I wasn't that surprised to read this article in The Times alerting us to the fact that the tourist industry is on a bit of a go slow these days. What I did find hard to believe was the fact that the Japanese visitor to these shores has fallen by arou...
A great Gypsy Day at Police Headquarters.
Lately the Local Press and one National newspaper plus an Idiot Counsellor who ought to know better have been more than a bit mischievous by reporting Warwickshire Police's attempt at building bridges with the Gypsy Community as a 'Gypsy Party' on wh...
Stratford upon Avon is unwell.
Stratford is a ghost town. Note that I write 'is a ghost town'. Unlike many articles of complaint, I believe it is too late to scribe, 'becoming a ghost town'. That was written years ago by those of us who saw what was coming.Like many towns across t...
Kenneth Branagh comes out.
It's interesting to note that yet another (top notch) Lovey has come out in favour of the theory that dear old Shakespeare didn't write the stuff he was supposed to have written. This time it's friend of Prince Charles and very fine actor, Kenneth B...
Once and for ALL
OK. I'm not going to go into details but I must confess I am getting a little fed up with the hoohah that is building up over the two Shakespeare portraits that have recently gone on show here in Stratford. The whole thing is proving a bit of a publi...
Mars Lander kicks the bucket
It was with great sadness yesterday I learnt that the Mars Lander has finally died. Owing to lack of sunlight and no shops in the near vicinity, its batteries have gone flat.So let's take a moment or two to recognise this most wonderful of human achi...
