The Time Team are seeking 300 people to demonstrate the size of the Edward III’s Round Table on Sunday afternoon, 16 September.
Channel 4’s series ‘Time Team’ will be filming on the Brocas meadow by the Thames in Eton. They are producing a ‘Time Team’ special documentary about Edward III’s Round Table building found at Windsor Castle during the ‘Time Team’ live excavation last year. You can read more in the News This Month section of www.mychilterns.co.uk
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, Theatre Royal, Windsor. August 6 to 11. Pygmalion, which most of us know better as the musical ‘My Fair Lady’ was a Peter Hall production with a star-studded cast led by Tim Pigot-Smith as Professor Higgins with Barbara Jefford as his longsuffering mother. To read more visit the Theatre Reviews section of www.mychilterns.co.uk
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Old Times by Harold Pinter. Theatre Royal, Windsor. April 9 to 14. A play like this gives enjoyment afterwards – exchanging theories, aiming to get to the centre of what the great man was getting at. And, yes, Pinter was right there in the audience on April 10 so we all shared an evening with a much-honoured Nobel laureate!
To see the full review please visit www.mychilterns.co.uk
Old Times by Harold Pinter. Theatre Royal, Windsor. April 9 to 14. A play like this gives enjoyment afterwards – exchanging theories, aiming to get to the centre of what the great man was getting at. And, yes, Pinter was right there in the audience on April 10 so we all shared an evening with a much-honoured Nobel laureate!
To see the full review please visit www.mychilterns.co.uk
| ” + alltext + “ | The Windsor Festival this year will run from September 18th to 30th and will include two gala concerts celebrating the Queen’s 60th wedding anniversary and the birth of British composer Sir Edward Elgar. For the full article please visit www.mychilterns.co.uk What’s On section | |
Watching Hay Fever, Windsor audiences are nicely within their ‘comfort zone’ because the zany weekend houseparty of the actress Mrs Judith Bliss and her novelist husband David, is set in their home on the Thames at Cookham. The date is June, 1924. And what a lovely stage set it is, fitting for an excellent performance of this scintillating play – one of Noel Coward’s best.
Stephanie Beacham as the theatrical Mrs Bliss is exactly right and Christopher Timothy as her husband is totally believable. To give a reminder of the plot: members of the Bliss family each invite a weekend guest hardly known to them. David’s is an empty-headed flapper, Emily, (Jackie Coryton), and Judith’s is an infatuated young man, Sandy, (Christopher Naylor). Their son Simon (William Ellis), invites an older woman, Myra, whom he finds attractive and their daughter Sorel (Madeleine Hutchins), invites an older man, Richard, (Andrew Hall), a diplomat. Dialogue between each pair starts off politely but hesitantly. Later on they all change around and with more suitable couplings the exchanges get steadily more sophisticated and dramatic. One of the best is between David and Myra, played with amusing sophistication by Sarah Berger. All the cast, diverse as their characters are, work well together in this masterfully constructed play. This is particularly demonstrated in the famous scene of the after-dinner game where the reluctant guests are roped in to act ‘in the manner of the word’. For more of this review please visit http://www.mychilterns.co.uk
