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Dürer to Van Dyck: these marvellous drawings surprise and enthral

Nov 10, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Brown

This beautifully presented new exhibition – hosted by the National Galleries of Scotland at the Royal Scottish Academy – features some 50 drawings and watercolours spanning the 16th to 18th centuries from the likes of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Peter Paul Rubens.
Retired Bracknell GP found guilty of indecently assaulting female patients

Oct 4, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Brown

A retired GP has been found guilty of indecently assaulting female patients on the pretext of carrying out routine procedures. Stephen Cox, 65, denied 16 charges of indecent assault against seven women while practising in Bracknell, Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997. He was found guilty of 12 of those counts on Friday at Reading crown court after a four-week trial, Thames Valley police said. He will be sentenced on Monday.
Educational, employment inequities are costing the US trillions of dollars

Sep 12, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Brown

In a letter to Tuskegee University founding principal Booker T. Washington, Dr. Mark A. Brown, , writes of modern challenges for an HBCU university president. Dear Principal Washington,It’s a new school year at your beloved Tuskegee Normal School, Institute and now University. As the first alumnus to sit in your seat since the school opened in 1881, I’m thinking of you and wondering whether we are living up to the high standards that you established.
The Fifth Step: Jack Lowden is tremendous in this humorous if histrionic study of alcoholism

Aug 22, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Brown

Playwright David Ireland is renowned for his dark yet audacious humour. In his 2016 drama Cyprus Avenue, a mentally distressed Ulster Unionist pensioner mistakes his grandchild for Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams. Two years later, he wowed the Edinburgh Fringe with Ulster American, a hilariously violent satire of ill-informed political correctness in both Hollywood and London theatre.
The Brenda Line: A humane account of the women who dealt with ‘heavy breathers’

Aug 22, 2024 | aol.co.uk | Mark Brown

Charlotte Grayson and Fiona Bruce in The Brenda Line, at Pitlochry Festival Theatre - Fraser BandFor 15 years during the 1970s and ’80s, the Samaritans charity provided a controversial service that saw female volunteers known as “Brendas” accept phone calls of a sexual nature from men. The mother of Scotland-based author Harry Mould experienced the service during her time as a Samaritans volunteer in small town North Wales, and this has inspired Mould’s debut stage play.
Watchdog investigates ‘unacceptable’ cyanide spill in Walsall canal

Aug 15, 2024 | msn.com | Mark Brown

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Watchdog investigates ‘unacceptable’ cyanide spill in Walsall canal

Aug 15, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Brown

A lock in the Rushall lock flight that has not been opened since Monday after the chemical spill. A lock in the Rushall lock flight that has not been opened since Monday after the chemical spill. Photograph: Sophie Robinson/PAThe Environment Agency has described a cyanide spill into a West Midlands canal as “unacceptable” and promised robust action if any wrongdoing is found to have occurred. A major incident was declared after the spill of sodium cyanide into a canal in Walsall on Monday.
James V: Katherine: Catholicism meets lesbianism in this uneven history play

Apr 11, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Brown

Rona Munro’s sequence of plays about the reigns of the Scottish kings James is getting tantalisingly close to the one that is arguably the pivotal monarch in the history of the British state, King James VI of Scotland and I of England. The playwright may or may not be in a hurry to get to the man who ascended to the English throne, but James V: Katherine is the shortest in the series so far.
A Taste of Honey: performances of great power - even with the cast’s backs to the audience

Mar 21, 2024 | yahoo.com | Mark Brown

Set in Salford, Shelagh Delaney’s celebrated drama A Taste of Honey was first staged (at Theatre Royal Stratford East) by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop in 1958. It isn’t difficult to see why it took an artistic and political radical such as Littlewood to bring the piece to the public stage. The play portrayed an unmarried 17-year-old white woman getting pregnant by her 20-year-old black boyfriend.
Richard, My Richard: Philippa Gregory’s debut play is marred by a two-dimensional Richard III

Mar 13, 2024 | sports.yahoo.com | Mark Brown

Philippa Gregory is long established as one of the UK’s most popular historical novelists. The author of bestsellers such as The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen, she has now, in Richard, My Richard, turned her attention to the stage for the first time.