"It’s all nice enough, while also feeling indistinct and unmemorable."

Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson go for a very long walk in true story inspired movie #TheSaltPath — out in UK cinemas on 30 May.

Read our review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Stage Review Hamlet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre #stratforduponavon

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Photograph Marc Brenner featuring actor Luke Thallon as Hamlet

Published review of the play: Community which is currently touring #westmidlands #uk

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photograph by Graeme Braidwood

NOT COMPULSORY BLOG:
Stage Review 10 NIGHTS

‘An important play on many levels […]’ Debra Hall (critic)

Read the review at:
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Now Christmas is behind us I have permission to share a commission I recently fulfilled.The brief was to place the lovely Max and Georgie outside their new #business premises in #Nottingham BUT to #draw the #property how it would have looked in 1910 AND to include the couple in #period dress

…into the night on the shortest day #wintersolstice

Stage Review Twelfth Night
at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre #stratforduponavon
this 2024/2025 festive season with actor, Samuel West as Malvolio
Read the review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Photography by Helen Murray
#events #theatre #twelfthnight
#shakespeare

A recent #commission received was to place the buyer’s son and DIL outside their new #business premises BUT to draw the #property how it looked in 1910 AND to include the couple in #period #dress. Great idea! I’ll share the finished work sometime

Frolicking Reindeers
#illustrative #digital #art #seasonal #scene #reindeer #snowy

In #Birmingham A Christmas Carol : A Ghost Story at Birmingham Rep on until 05
Jan 2025 #events #theatre #show
Photography Ellie Kurtzz
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My Fair Lady, this is a BIG, BIG production at Curve Theatre, Leicester until Jan 04 2025
read the review:
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#myfairlady #leicester #events #theatre #review👏

Photography Marc Brenner

Stage #Review
Our Country’s Good
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press night tonight for ‘Mark Gatiss‘ acclaimed retelling of Dickens’ winter ghost story starring Matthew Cottle as Scrooge and Rufus Hound as Jacob Marley’ Birmingham Rep (2024/25)

photography Ellie Kurttz

Over in The Bad Place it’s Day 42 of my futile one-woman crusade to keep real images popping up on your feed rather than AI.

It’s getting colder so here’s the Peak District looking as wintery as i’ve ever seen a few yrs ago. Silver Birch covered in snow and hoar frost at first light. Magic!

I declare this imaginary city done. (Fountain pen on paper.)

A novel written by an author is a form of communication. It tells us something about our common human experience. A novel written by generative AI is just noise. It tells us nothing. To quote Shakespeare, it is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

The Ever After Garden www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...

Twitter has become a shop window with no goods in the back. In many cases the shop window is just a facade with a nice banner. Absolutely literally nothing in the back.

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Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.