UEA graduate Emma Healey sold over a million copies of her debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, a psychological mystery narrated by the heroine who has dementia. It was the winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014, and shortlisted for multiple National Book Awards, whilst being generally hailed by readers as a classic page-turner: ‘one…
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, Jessica Swale (writer) tells an energetic remastering of Rudyard Kipling’s story. It’s fresh and it’s new and it leaves Disney in the dust, even rejecting to make use of the soundtrack we all associate with the 1967 classic. Not to worry though, it’s still a musical and John Stilgoe…
The stage curtain lifted to reveal exquisite scenery. Producer Ellen Kent is well known for her spectacularly designed operas, and this performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly didn’t fail to reach those standards. The whole stage was framed by Japanese trees and flowers with fountains on either side creating the background sound of running water throughout…
I’m going to start this off with a confession; I actually didn’t identify as a Michael Jackson fan before I saw Adrian Grant and Gary Lloyd’s Thriller Live at Norwich Theatre Royal. Since watching it last night however, I feel like his songs have become a kind of mental soundtrack to my life. I fell…
When I think of E.M Forster’s novel ‘A Room with a View,’ I immediately conjure scenes from the 1985 film adaptation; largely because of the romance captured through its being filmed initially in beautiful Florence. This led to my biggest concern prior to seeing Simon Reade’s adaptation of the work as a play, at the…
