Four women and five men from Aberdeen University’s A Cappella Society Aberpella tell us they thought they were being terribly witty in choosing the title “50 Tones of Grey” as a reference to the shades of the sky and stone of their university city.
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A new stage show by poet Martin Figura turns out to be both entertaining and thought-provoking
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • performance, poetry, year 2016 0 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, performance, poetry
Northern Ireland’s permanent representation in Brussels periodically brings to the capital of Europe a sample of Northern Irish culture in a spirit of cross-cultural exchange that risks being disrupted in the event of a Brexit.
By Barbara Lewis • jazz, music, performance, society, theatre, year 2016 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, jazz, music, performance, society
To most Britons, P.G. Wodehouse is known as the creator of quaint, comic novels starring the blundering upper class twit Bertie Wooster and his astute valet Jeeves. He also contributed lyrics and stories to a wealth of musicals and his step great grandson, the opera singer Hal Cazalet, who as a child slept in a room beneath the Wodehouse archive, tells us he only got to know P.G. Wodehouse’s prose through the song lyrics.
By Barbara Lewis • music, performance, theatre, year 2017 • Tags: authors, Barbara Lewis, music, performance, theatre