Author: Rachel Sloane

TheUglyDuckling
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27 September 2012

Review of The Ugly Duckling at New Wolsey Studio, 15 September 2012

  Two actors, lots of props and a well-known tale: the perfect combination for a very young audience, from Kipper Tie Theatre. Four year old Bethany and  I went to see The Ugly Duckling at the New Wolsey Studio in Ipswich. At just under one hour’s length,  it  kept the audience (including  parents and grandparents ) amused and happy with jokes, songs and a story […]

120927BusinessEducAward
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27 September 2012

Education Business Partnership Award

On 26 September 2012 at the 20th Anniversary Awards for the Suffolk Education Business Partnership, Rachel Sloane Partnerships Ltd was presented with an award for their support for young people in Suffolk. 

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4 September 2012

Review of the Poetry Prom 2012

Poetry Prom at Snape Proms, Snape Concert Hall on 23 August 2012 This, one of the biggest audiences for poetry reading in the country, is an event that poetry lovers and those new to the genre always enjoy every year. The Poetry Trust, based in Halesworth, invite three internationally known poets  to read some of their work (twenty five minutes each) and, sometimes, explain more […]

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26 August 2012

Review of The British Paraorchestra at Snape Proms, 25 August 2012

  With the Paralympic Flame arriving at Snape in the afternoon, expectations were high for this concert.  The British Paraorchestra was set up by well-known conductor Charles Hazelwood who, as a father of a six year old daughter with cerebral palsy, he realised that if sport could embrace people with disabilities then so should orchestras. Travelling the world, he realised that he came across few […]

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24 August 2012

Review of Carminho at Snape Proms, 17 August 2012

Temperatures had soared to make it the hottest week for years and Snape was steaming in the evening sun – and inside Snape Maltings Concert Hall the audience were transported to a sultry Portugal. Once again Snape Proms had brought something musically very different to Suffolk, a top fado singer. Maria do Carmo Carvalho Rebelo de Andrade, known as  Carminho, came with her  traditional Portugese […]

Summer youth project 2012
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24 August 2012

Review of The Wedding Singer at The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe. 22 August 2012

  Never having been to one of the Summer Youth Projects productions at the Spa Pavilion in Felixstowe, but knowing that it involved a group of  I0 to 23 year olds who rehearse and present a musical over just two weeks,  I was prepared to give it a go but held no great hopes, especially of a musical that we didn’t know and that had […]

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19 June 2012

Revealing the secrets of Suffolk’s medieval churches

What is that shadow on the wall? Why is that pillar a different shape to the others? Could that door be a secret passage?    Every June the historian, Clive Paine, is “Let Loose” on a few of Suffolk’s wonderful medieval churches. The first evening has taken place and there are two more to go – and they are open to all.     On […]

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18 June 2012

Review of Britten Films, Aldeburgh Festival

Britten Films at The Aldeburgh Festival, Snape  Maltings Concert Hall. 14 June 2012   “It was brilliantly done – and it is so nice to come to something so different!”  was the comment from an audience member  – and which I definitely agreed with. It isn’t often that you sit in Snape Maltings Concert Hall and watch on a giant screen 1930’s documentaries that were […]

Wolsey - the rise and fall
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11 June 2012

Review of Wolsey, the Rise and Fall

  To sit in the pews of a 14th century Suffolk church, watching the dramatic life story of one of the county’s most famous characters, Cardinal Wolsey, was very appropriate. Bucklesham church (although extensively rebuilt in Victorian times), with its plain glass windows and whitewashed walls, is a good reminder of the consequences of Henry VIII’s desperate search for an heir that led to the […]

Grimm Fairy Tales DAMIAN COOPER and LUCY MELLORS
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11 June 2012

Inspired Summer Madness – The Pantaloons

  A troupe of zany young actors dressed in outrageous colourful costumes, some fast-moving clowning that makes you laugh aloud, witty songs full of awful puns, some rhymes, some mime and maybe a clutch of puppets for good measure. It’s known as “physical theatre”… and it is increasingly becoming a much-loved fixture of outdoor summer theatre in our area.    Born and educated in Suffolk, […]