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First Light/ Minerva Theatre

In reviewing this play by Mark Hayhurst who had a great success both at Chichester and the West End with Taken at  Midnight I will defer to co-Ruster Henry Elkins on the military aspects. In brief, it tells the story of two deserters from the Manchester pals Regiment – Bert Ingham and [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Politicians overboard … who will rescue them?

The fallout from the EU Referendum continues to expand like wildfire and more than one political commentator is now referring to it as not ‘one of’ but the biggest political crisis since WW2. See here for an example – Michael White writing in – THE GUARDIAN The basic problem is that it’s [...]

June 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

What comes around

We are shortly approaching the fortieth anniversary (on 4th July) of one of the moments in history that seems to have gained iconic status amongst Rusters. Operation Entebbe, or Operation Thunderbolt to mention its military version – or indeed Raid On Entebbe, to name the 1977 television film [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Harry’s Bar

When a rich and successful businessman I know suggested for his turn for lunch we go to Harry’s bar in South Audley Street my mind went back to another businessman from Birmingham who once there resolutely refused to pay for truffles on the basis there that the waiter did not explain the [...]

June 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Beyond Menabilly

Finally we have weather dry enough to venture out of Pridmouth Cottage. It’s not exactly a burning summer’s day but at least it’s dry enough to take the coastal path to the Gribben. The Gribben is a red and white watchtower operating as a sea and landmark. Beacons were hung to [...]

June 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

On the Daphne du Maurier trail

It’s good to be back in Menabilly – the estate that Daphne do Maurier occupied for some 20 years and the inspiration for Rebecca, The Birds and Don’t Look Now. Yesterday I organised a trip to Fowey and Bodinnick to visit the places that shaped her life. Daphne du Maurier, whom I [...]

June 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rumbling on …

Regular readers of this esteemed organ will be aware that we are currently covering the UK’s EU Referendum campaign almost daily in our own quaint fashion – i.e. commenting upon developments, not reporting upon them – not least because the one ‘fact’ being asserted by politicians [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A great man remembered

Yesterday at a charity lunch the host on my table was Brook Land. Brook as at the same school as me and, in introducing him to an old friend from the same school who is a keen lover of the theatre, I mentioned that Brook’s father David Land was an eminent impresario of his or any day. So [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ross/Chichester Festival Theatre

Ross/T.E.Lawrence was a complex man and unravelling him is no easy matter. Much of his achievements and sufferings are gleaned from his own work Seven Pillars of Wisdom and therefore uncorroborated. Then we have our own perception of Lawrence of Arabia based on the David Lean film and Peter [...]

June 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera is itself an adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera and Rufus Norris, director of this and the National Theatre has again adapted this to the modern world, less by locale as it’s still in the East End, more by values as the cast has many black actors and a [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

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