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1. It’s that time of year again, oh yes it is!
Get Wokingham, Thursday 29 November 2007THE season of thigh-slapping and cross dressing is with us again as soap stars and TV presenters find gainful employment over the Christmas holidays. Linda Fort looks at the pantomimes across the region and discovers there’s nothing like a dame.
2. It’s not too early for some pantomime fun
Get Wokingham, Monday 3 December 2007ALADDIN has opened at both Oxford Playhouse and Bracknell’s Wilde Theatre and Beauty And The Beast is under way at Newbury Corn Exchange.
3. Meaty role for Kate
Get Wokingham, Monday 14 May 2007Actress Kate O’Mara is back in Daphne du Maurier country, at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre next week.
4. Take two – Pursuing a lifelong dream
Get Wokingham, Monday 14 May 2007“I am inspired by people I meet,” says Claudette Flint. “By ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary events. I think it comes from my grandmother: as a young woman she worked at the Hotel Regina in Nice, the same place where Queen Victoria spent her holidays, and she ironed the Queen’s knickers so well that she was given a jar of piccalilli.”
5. Kids meet panto stars
Get Wokingham, Wednesday 19 December 2007SCHOOL pupils got an extra special taste of the pantomime when they came face-to-face with the stars of the show.
6. Enjoying new line of work
Get Wokingham, Friday 1 June 2007AFTER years of pursuing criminals in TV’s Taggart, James MacPherson, is thoroughly enjoying playing a baddie himself.
7. Order from chaos
Get Wokingham, Friday 1 June 2007ONE imagines that most members of the Reading public are not particularly interested in the inner workings of newspapers.
8. Tale of three beds
Get Wokingham, Friday 8 June 2007Alan Ayckbourn dedicated his play Bedroom Farce, which is at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre next week, to ‘all those who have been deprived of a good night’s sleep’.
9. Compelling theatre
Get Wokingham, Friday 8 June 2007CLASSIC Greek drama gets an African make-over in Molora at Oxford Playhouse next week.
10. Digging up skeletons
Get Wokingham, Friday 18 May 2007AFTER more than five years in TV’s Emmerdale actress Nicola Wheeler, decided that she wanted to return to the boards.