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Chloe (15)

ACTING JOURNEY: Amanda Seyfried as Chloe (15)

11:32am Thursday 4th March 2010

CANADIAN director Atom Egoyan remakes a 2003 French drama Nathalie with enjoyable if melodramatic results.

Totally Trollope

ONE MAN SHOW: Edward Fox is visiting Richmond’s Georgian Theatre on Saturday, March 13

11:06am Thursday 4th March 2010

Two evenings to remember are heading for the region. Actor Edward Fox is at Richmond and performer turned composer Denis King is a fundraiser at Glaisdale. Viv Hardwick reports.

Kneads must

AIMING HIGH:  Staff member Tom Munday makes pizza bases

11:38am Tuesday 2nd March 2010

A £40 voucher, express delivery, proves the lure to a ‘unique, exclusive and specially-created’ experience.

Absent Friends, Harrogate Theatre

12:03pm Monday 1st March 2010

COLIN’S fiancee has drowned, so a group of old friends invite him round for tea and sympathy.

George’s Marvellous Medicine. Whitley Bay Playhouse

10:57am Saturday 27th February 2010

AS a panacea for troublesome geriatrics George’s broth doesn’t really work. Which should have been a warning to one of the busiest book-to-stage adapters of children’s fiction David Wood.

‘Baring my soul’

GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS: From left, Gemma Atkinson, Jan Harvey, Letitia Dean, Kathryn Rooney, Judith BarkeR, Hannah Waterman and Lynda Bellingham line-up for the current tour of Calendar Girls which arrives at Newcastle Theatre Royal at the end of next month

12:03pm Thursday 25th February 2010

Lynda Bellingham talks to Viv Hardwick about a stage version of Calendar Girls and a book which are exposing her to the world.

Leap Year (PG)

BARMY BLARNEY: Amy Adams and Matthew Goode in Leap Year (PG)

11:43am Thursday 25th February 2010

BEGORRAH, bejesus. Be quiet, you eejit. This isn’t Ireland, this is an American’s view of Ireland which is as accurate as Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent in Mary Poppins.

Village voices

FIELDS OF DREAMS: Sandra Hunt, Nigel Collins, Gemma Clough, William Reay and Nicola Welburn star in Nortumberland Theatre Company’s A Village Life

11:32am Thursday 25th February 2010

Authenticity is at the heart of Northumberland Theatre Company’s latest work, A Village Life. Viv Hardwick talks to director Gillian Hambleton.

Beautifully evil

CRIME A DAY: Richard Burkhard as Sir Despard Murgatroyd

11:11am Thursday 25th February 2010

Richard Burkhard tells Viv Hardwick about using a touch of Geoffrey Palmer to create a comic baddie for the Newcastle tour of Ruddigore.

Fatal Encounter, Darlington Civic Theatre

10:54am Thursday 25th February 2010

IAN DICKENS Productions makes a welcome return to the Civic with this thriller by prolific writer Francis Durbridge.




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