Category: Articles

3 June 2013

Review of “Blue Remembered Hills”, Framlingham Amateur Dramatic Society

29 May -1 June 2013, Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framlingham College How dramatically childhood has changed in just a couple of generations! Can you imagine seven children in 2013 playing together without a computer game, mobile phone or reference to a TV programme or celebrity? What children would now be allowed to play in woods, unaccompanied by an adult, and armed with catapults, matches and knives? […]

Articles

23 May 2013

Suffolk Business Exhibition 1 May 2013

Report for ISSBA Newsletter, May 2013: Aching feet, a hoarse voice and a facial expression stuck permanently in a smile. Yes, the Suffolk Business Exhibition (SBE) is over for another year. Hopefully your pile of business cards, new contacts and possible leads, mean that the hours standing by your stand or walking up and down the aisles were worth any suffering! The exhibition has […]

Articles

9 May 2013

Saddle Up for Summer.

As small sun-shaped symbols hopefully appear on the weather forecasters maps, many people will remember the sporting summer of 2012 and decide they really should head outdoors and take up a sport. Perhaps cycling? Riding a bike could help you to get fit, save you money and enable you to enjoy the towns and countryside of Suffolk and Norfolk from a new perspective. There […]

Articles

19 December 2012

Humbug, by the Performing Arts students, Suffolk New College

19 December 2012. A cast of over 100 dancers and actors need a lot of organisation, and the challenge is even more daunting if there isn’t access to a large theatre or performance space. These disadvantages were turned into a positive advantage by Suffolk New College Performing Arts students and their performance of Humbug, a retelling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. The imaginative use of various studios and rooms at the college meant that the […]

Lilly Howard, Sarah Mahony, Sean Kingsley and Esther Biddle in Sleeping Beauty

Articles

13 December 2012

Review of Sleeping Beauty, New Wolsey Theatre Ipswich

Lilly Howard, Sarah Mahony, Sean Kingsley and Esther Biddle in Sleeping Beauty. Photo by Mike Kwasniak 22 November – 26 January 2013 The brisk trade in magic wands, flashing yo-yo's and ice creams show that the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich hasn't forgotten the younger members of the audience with their annual Rock'n'Roll pantomime, however this is the pantomime that a teenager or older audience […]

Articles

27 November 2012

ISSBA Meet the Members Networking Event

The Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business Association (ISSBA) Meet the Members Networking coffee morning The New Wolsey Theatre – in the upstairs bar. The pantomime is on at the New Wolsey Theatre so you might want to “look behind you” whilst at the latest networking opportunity being organised by ISSBA! Both ISSBA members and visitors are welcome to attend the January ISSBA networking event […]

Articles

1 November 2012

Review of Out of Sight- Out of Murder by Framlingham Amateur Dramatic Society, 31 October 2012

30 October – 3 November 2012 at Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framingham College. Murder mysteries of a certain era usually have a standard cast of characters: the elderly spinster, the romantic hero, innocent heroine, the sexy vamp, a ditsy maid, a solicitor to read the will and a pompous butler “who done it” (or may have). Authors always say that their characters take on a life […]

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner By Alan Sillitoe Adapted for the stage by Roy Williams Elliot Barnes-Worrell 2 (2)

Articles

17 October 2012

Review of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The New Wolsey Theatre. 16 October 2012

They were the sort of conversations you’d hear on any street corner where teenagers congregate. A mixture of jostling, bravado, flirting, a bit of swearing and plenty of “Innits”, and expressions like “it’s sick, man”. This play was an adaptation and updating, by Roy William, of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , a short story about class and criminal justice system , […]

Articles

1 October 2012

A new Community Choir for the Felixstowe area.

Singing pop and songs from musicals, a new mixed adult choir started singing in the Spa Pavilion lounge on Monday 15 October 2012. Over 30 singers (men and women aged over 18) are now attending on Monday evenings. Music included the Beatles, Fiddler on the Roof and Adele and you can follow the choir on Twitter: @felixcommchoir. The new website for the choir is now […]

Articles

28 September 2012

Review of Courtney Pine at Ipswich School Festival of Music 20 September 2012

This week long festival began with a day of workshops from the street dance group, Stomp, and an evening with jazz musician, Courtney Pine and his six piece band of double bass, drums, piano, viola, electric violin, and guitar/mandolin. It was a sell-out concert, with many jazz fans unable to believe their luck that such a big name was appearing in a school hall […]