Stephanie Cole is appearing in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads at the Theatre Royal Bath. In this exclusive audio interview with StageTalk Magazine’s Michael Hasted she talks about her early career.
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Avenue Q is a show like no other. It brings together elements with which we are all familiar and presents them in a hotch-potch of styles, ranging from children’s TV puppet shows to lavish musical with a lot of serious issues thrown in for good measure. If you haven’t seen it I recommend that you do. If you don’t fancy it, you don’t think it’s your kind of thing, think again. The show has so much feel-good factor that you’d have to be a real curmudgeon not to love it.
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There is something quite old fashioned, in a nice sort of way, about conjuring. It’s almost from another age, an age of music-hall and variety, of glitter and sequins, so it’s good to see the traditional illusionist is alive and well and that none of the magic has been lost.
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Absent Friends was written in 1974, arguably when Ayckbourn was at his peak – his previous two plays had been The Norman Conquests and Absurd Person Singular. So, although I had not seen Absent Friends before, it was with a light heart and carefree spring to my step that I arrived at the Everyman in the hope and anticipation of seeing vintage Ayckbourn at its very best. And, I am pleased to announce, it was.
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“. . . I am not a dance aficionado but I can find a night watching a good modern ballet company as satisfying as seeing a great play and wonderful acting. So, it may be just my uninformed imagination, but there seem to be rather a lot of small(ish) independent dance troupes around at the moment . . . New English Ballet Theatre is certainly a company to keep an eye on and one which, when they become fully aware of their strengths, will no doubt become major players.
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