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MACBETH Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 8thNovember 2025 Director Colin Simmonds waxes lyrical in his programme notes about German Expressionism of the 1920s and how this influenced his choices in staging this play.  You can see his point: Macbeth himself verbalises his psychological problems, and so Expressionism, where the external world expresses the internal life of the protagonist,…

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Friday 13th December 2024 Not a pantomime and not the Disney version, the Crescent’s Christmas offering this year is a version of the French fairy tale by Laurence Boswell.  Differences abound, not least in tone.  Mark Shaun Walsh directs with exuberance and creativity to bring the tale to irresistible life.  It’s an ensemble piece, at heart,…

CHARLEY’S AUNT The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 29th June 2024 I manage to catch the production’s last in-house performance in the Ron Barber Studio before it embarks on a tour of stately homes around the region.  First appearing in 1892, Brandon Thomas’s play is a quintessential old-school farce that basically involves two well-to-do cheps at Oxford recruiting a third to impersonate…

THE FATHER The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 27th May 2023 French playwright Florian Zeller’s play comes to the Crescent via this translation by Christopher Hampton.  Even though the characters are French in name, and the setting is still Paris, it is played as though English – no Allo Allo accents here!  It’s the story of an elderly man, the father of the title, who is succumbing to…

I big europei esprimono soddisfazione per il Green Deal che prevede di raggiungere la #neutralitàclimatica entro il 2050. Ma il No della #Polonia ci ricorda che molto spesso lo sviluppo di un paese non combacia con il concetto di #greeneconomy

Il Consiglio Europeo raggiunge una accordo sul clima: la neutralità climatica diventa un obiettivo per il 2050.

Lo annuncia in tarda serata il Presidente del Consiglio Europeo Charles Michael, ribadendo l’impegno di tutti gli stati membri per conseguire un ambizioso e importante traguardo come quello della neutralità climatica.

Il vertice di madrid COP25

I lavori per 196 paesi dell’Unione sono…

The Originals – The Map of Moments Recap

Previously – Klaus wants his brothers to help him against Esther. Cami has been prepped to be the human body for Rebekah. Bex is on the run with Hope and after a dodgy episode in a diner now has a mentally unstable Elijah with her. Kol wants to dagger Klaus but needs Davina’s help and Klaus and Hayley are off to see their daughter.

Flashback to December 1914, Kol and two of his witchy friends are…