1 Magazine - Early Summer 2018

Issue 72 Early Summer 2018

Music, Arts & Culture BBC Proms and Festival News

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ROH Ballet Live: Manon (12A) Saturday 5th May (7.15pm); Encore: Tuesday May 8th (2pm) The scenario of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon surrounds her brother Lescaut who’s offering her to the highest bidder but when she meets Des Grieux she falls deeply in love and they elope to Paris.

But when Monsieur GM enters her life offering her a life of luxury as his mistress, she can’t resist. And when Des Grieux is caught cheating at cards in an attempt to win Monsieur GM’s fortune life becomes difficult for the young couple. Manon’s arrested as a prostitute and deported to New Orleans followed by Des Grieux.

The source for Manon came from the 18thcentury French novel already adapted for opera by Massenet and Puccini. The Royal Ballet’s production, however, received its première in March 1974 with the leading roles danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell and soon became a staple of the company’s repertoire.

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regular collaborator, Nicholas Georgiadis, reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable destitution.

MacMillan’s spectacular ensemble scenes for the whole company create vivid, complex portraits of the distinct societies of Paris and New Orleans.

But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s impassioned pas de deux - recalling the intensity of MacMillan’s earlier work, Romeo and Juliet - that drives this tragic love-story making Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful and absorbing works.

Culture Shock: The Iron Giant (U) Sunday 7th May (8.30pm) In this animated adaptation of Ted Hughes’ Cold War fable, a giant alien robot crashlands near the small town of Rockwell, Maine, in 1957. Exploring the area, a local nine-year-old boy, Hogarth, discovers the robot and quickly forms an unlikely friendship with him.

When a paranoid government agent, Kent Mansley, becomes determined to destroy the robot, Hogarth and beatnik, Dean McCoppin, must do whatever they can to save the misunderstood machine.

E4 Slackers Club: Life of the Party (12A) Wednesday 9th May (6.15pm). Free screening exclusively for students When her husband suddenly dumps her, long-time dedicated housewife Deanna (Melissa McCarthy) turns regret into re-set by going back to college, landing in the same class and school as her daughter, who’s not entirely sold on the idea. Plunging headlong into the campus experience, the increasingly-outspoken Deanna (now Dee Rock) embraces freedom, fun and frat boys on her own terms, finding her true self in a senior year no one ever expected.

Skid Row Marathon Wednesday 9th May (8.30pm) Craig Mitchell is a Superior Court Judge in the ‘Skid Row’ district of Los Angeles where thousands of addicts and homeless live in rough or in shelters. Day after day he was required by law to lock up criminals and throw away the key.

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offered them a chance to run a marathon of their choosing - anywhere in the world.

Skid Row Marathon, therefore, is the uplifting true story of five runners whose lives had hit rock bottom.

Running gave them a second chance. As they train, they begin to realise that dreams they once thought impossible become possible.

The perilous streets of Skid Row are brimming with temptation. Relapse lurks round every corner. Can this unlikely collection keep their lives on track and cross the finish line?

NT Live: Macbeth (15) Thursday 10th May (7.00pm); Encore: Monday May 21st (2.00pm) In the ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war, the Macbeths ruthlessly fight to survive and forces of elemental darkness propel them towards the crown.

Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road) directs Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy starring Rory Kinnear (Young Marx, Othello) and AnneMarie Duff (Oil, Suffragette) as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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Culture Shock: Blade Runner - The Final Cut (15) Monday 14th May (8.30pm) In Ridley Scott’s brooding, doom-laden thriller set in a spectacularly-imagined future Los Angeles, a hired killer named Deckard (Harrison Ford) tracks down a group of renegade androids who have escaped from slavery on a colonised planet.

Loosely based on Philip K Dick’s paranoid masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and one of the most influential sci-fi movies of all time, Blade Runner, was famously butchered in previous studio versions including a so-called director’s cut that was nothing of the sort. This ‘final cut’ is the only version over which Scott had full artistic control and with its intense atmosphere, breath-taking visuals and lavishly-eerie soundtrack by Vangelis, it promises an unforgettable big-screen experience.

Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (12A) Tuesday 15th May (7.00pm) Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative love-story set in London during the Second World War. The internationally-acclaimed choreographer’s interpretation of the classic fairytale has,

at its heart, a true war-time romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz.

This special dance screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Matthew Bourne.

An American in Paris: The Musical Wednesday 16th May (7.45pm); Encore: Tuesday May 22nd (1.00pm) This breathtakingly-beautiful Tony Awardwinning Broadway musical, inspired by the Oscar-winning MGM film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love in Paris, the ‘City of Light’. Featuring the gorgeous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin (including the classic hits ‘S Wonderful’ and ‘I Got Rhythm’), stunning designs and show-stopping choreography it won a record-breaking 28 five-star reviews.

The scenario surrounds Jerry Mulligan who’s an American GI striving to make it as a painter in a city suddenly bursting with hope and possibility. Following a chance encounter with a beautiful young dancer 2018 Early Summer | 9

ROH Live: Swan Lake named Lise, the streets of Paris become the backdrop to a sensuous, modern romance of art, friendship and love in the aftermath of war.

The Dam Busters at 75: Live from the Royal Albert Hall (12A) Thursday 17th May (7.15pm) Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Dan Snow is joined on stage by the Glenn Miller Orchestra plus special guests including family members of both Dam Busters’ crew and the film’s director Michael Anderson, historian Paul Beaver and Professor Hugh Hunt as they explore the history of the iconic raid and how it led to the making of a classic British film based on the legendary true story of Commander Guy Gibson and his squadron.

This captures all the thrilling action and suspense of the magnificent exploits of a group of young pilots and their crews, charged with taking out the supposedly impenetrable Ruhr river dams of Germany with an ingeniously-designed bouncing bomb.

The audience will include former members of the iconic 617 Squadron as well as current members of the Royal Air Force.

One will also witness an on-stage ‘bouncing bomb’ experiment as we reflect on the science behind Barnes Wallis’ invention.

This section will end with a stirring rendition of The Dam Busters March by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

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English National Ballet: Akram Khan’s Giselle (U) Wednesday 23rd May (6.15pm) Hailed as ‘a masterpiece of 21st-century dance’ from English National Ballet, Akram Khan’s scintillating production of Giselle comes to cinemas for the first time with the artistic director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo, dancing the lead role of Giselle, one of a community of migrant workers cast out of their jobs in a condemned garment factory. Filmed live at the Liverpool Empire in October 2017, Giselle is directed for the screen by Ross McGibbon.

Carmen Jones (U). Dementia Friendly showing Friday 25th May (10.30am) The classic Hollywood musical, Carmen Jones, dating from 1954 is set during the Second World War with the scenario surrounding Carmen Jones, a vixen who works in a parachute factory in North Carolina, who’s arrested for fighting with a co-worker reporting her for arriving late for work. The foreman, Sergeant Brown, assigns the young soldier Joe to deliver her to the authorities, much to the dismay of Joe’s fiancée, Cindy Lou, who agreed to marry him during his leave.

McKellen: Playing the Part Live Sunday 27th May (3.00pm) Built around a 14-hour interview Playing the Part - hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast live from London’s BFI Southbank - uncovers Ian McKellen’s story on his birthday weekend. The event will touch

upon his upbringing living through the Second World War, working through repertory and the West End, becoming a pioneering stage star, coming out and being a leader in the campaign for equality. The show features unprecedented access to McKellen’s private photo albums, a wealth of ‘neverbefore-seen’ archive material including diaries written when he was 12 and unseen ‘ehind-the-scenes’ of theatre shows and films alongside his personal thoughts on longevity.

Exhibition on Screen: I, Claude Monet Monday 28th May (6.30pm) ‘My head is bursting - I want to paint it all.’ Award-winning director Phil Grabsky presents a fresh new look at one of the world’s favourite artists, Claude Monet, using the painter’s own words. Based on letters and other private writings, I, Claude Monet provides new insight into the man who not only painted the picture that gave birth to Impressionism but who was perhaps the most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In spite of this - and perhaps because of it - Monet’s life is a gripping tale of a man who, behind his sun-dazzled canvases, suffered from bouts of depression, loneliness and even suicidal thoughts.

Then, as his art developed and his love of nature led to the glories of his garden at Giverny, his letters reveal his humour, insight and love of life.

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Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Oscar Wilde Season Live: An Ideal Husband (12A) Tuesday 5th June (7.15pm) A new production of the Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, comes live from the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End. This entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. As an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern’s smooth ascent to the top seems assured until Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning proof of his previous financial chicanery.

This is the third play from the Oscar Wilde season, a year-long celebration of the brilliant Victorian playwright being staged by the Classic Spring Theatre Company.

Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia (12A) Sunday 10th June (4.00pm) Swanhilda notices her fiancée Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two sweethearts, Coppélia is not what she seems and Swanhilda decides to teach Franz a lesson. www.1Magazine.co.uk

The Bolshoi’s unique version of Coppélia exhibits a fascinating reconstruction of the original 19th-century choreography of this ebullient comedy involving a feisty heroine, a boyish fiancée with a wandering eye and an old doll-maker. The company’s stunning corps de ballet shines in the

divertissements and famous Dance of the Hours and its principals abound in youthful energy and irresistible humour in this effervescent production.

ROH Live: Swan Lake (12A) Monday 18th June (7.15pm); Encore: Tuesday 19th June (2.30pm) Swan Lake - Tchaikovsky’s first ballet score - has had a special role in the repertory of The Royal Ballet since 1934 and this season The Royal Ballet has created a new production with additional choreography by artist-inresidence, Liam Scarlett.

While remaining faithful to the Petipa-Ivanov text, Scarlett has brought fresh eyes to the staging of this classic ballet in collaboration with his long-term designer, John Macfarlane.

Given its status today as arguably the best-loved and most admired of all classical ballets, it is perhaps surprising that at its première in 1877 Swan Lake was poorly received. It is thanks to the 1895 production by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov that it has become part of not only ballet 2018 Early Summer | 11

consciousness but also of a wider popular culture too.

That success is secured not only by the sublime, symphonic sweep of Tchaikovsky’s rapturous score but also by the striking choreographic contrasts between Petipa’s royal palace scenes and the lyric lakeside scenes created by Ivanov.

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Simon Rattle’s Farewell Concert Wednesday 20th June (6.30pm) On 14th November 1987, Simon Rattle made his début with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducting Mahler’s Sixth Symphony.

Rattle said of the occasion: ‘I felt that I was finding my voice on that day.’

Mahler’s multifaceted work is again on the programme when Sir Simon appears for the last time as chief conductor of this great German orchestra broadcast live with exclusive interviews and programme insights featured as part of this historic event.

Glyndebourne Opera Live: Madama Butterfly (12A) Thursday 21st June (6.30pm) Madama Butterfly - sung in Italian with English subtitles - is a classic love-story that never fails to move, a tragic romance that sweeps you along in the intensity of its action.

When an innocent young Geisha meets an American naval officer she falls instantly and deeply in love. Giving up her family and her faith she risks all in marriage to the dashing Lieutenant Pinkerton.

But her fragile happiness cannot last. Soon love turns to abandonment and betrayal and Butterfly is forced to make one final, agonising sacrifice.

Bursting with exotic colour and memorable melodies, Puccini’s seductive score conceals a dramatic blade that cuts to the heart. Blending authentic Japanese music with luscious European harmonies and orchestration, the opera is an irresistible fusion of East and West.

Praised by critics as a ‘thoughtful, provocative staging’ and a ‘scathing study of exploitation’, Annilese Miskimmon’s production updates the action to the 1950s and this post-war setting brings to the fore the darker elements of Puccini’s story. Little wonder that this opera has inspired numerous contemporary adaptations and re-imaginings including the hit musical, Miss Saigon.

There’s No Business Like Show Business(U).

Dementia Friendly showing Friday 29th June (10.30pm) Terry (Dan Dailey) and Molly (Ethel Merman) are vaudeville performers who eventually add their three children to the act to become ‘The Five Donahues’.

However, their children start to go their own way in time, with Steve (Johnnie Ray) deciding to become a priest. The other grown children, Katy (Mitzi Gaynor) and Tim (Donald O’Connor), join a show starring Victoria Parker (Marilyn Monroe). The Donahue parents become a performing pair again but, alas, the family still faces personal upheaval.

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Great Yarmouth AIRSHOW

Great Yarmouth’s first ever air show prepares for take-off

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kies over Great Yarmouth’s Golden Mile will be buzzing with thrilling aircraft antics this summer as the resort stages its first ever air show.

top, will combine aerobatics and acrobatics as the AeroSuperBatics pilots do formation loops and rolls, while the performers do gymnastics, sometimes while dangling upside down.

Two packed afternoons of flying action over the shore will entertain crowds getting a free grandstand view of the aerial action from the seafront on Saturday and Sunday June 16 and 17.

The RAF’s crack Red Arrows will star on both days, showcasing their precision skills with smoke-trailing formation flying and breathtaking head-on passes.

Modern day aerobatic thrills come in the shape of the Blades – propeller-powered monoplanes flown by former Red Arrows pilots - as well as the Norfolk-based Wildcats from Old Buckenham and Rich Goodwin’s Muscle Biplane. The Army’s Tigers freefall parachute team will plummet through the sky, demonstrating their individual and team formation skills, before landing on the beach.

But showgoers will also see a host of other military and civilian planes, as well as Army parachutists, in the two-day show, which is expected to attract 175,000 people and generate an extra £10m for the local economy.The RAF is marking its centenary this year, and visitors will be able to see aircraft spanning its illustrious history.

And a Catalina flying boat – which has rescued downed pilots and been a “flying fire engine” bombing forest blazes – will be a reminder of Great Yarmouth’s own piece of aviation history as a First World War naval air station, which used to be based on the South Denes site of the current Outer Harbour.

From the pioneering days of the First World War, there will be dog fighting action from the biplanes and triplanes of the Bremont Great War Display Team, whose amazing aircraft appeared in a recent BBC documentary about the RAF’s 100 years featuring actor Ewan McGregor. Iconic planes from the Second World War are the stars of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – with its Lancaster (Saturday only), Spitfire and Hurricane.

Another privately owned Spitfire, which saw wartime action with the RAF, went on to a “civvy street” career as a movie star in films including The Battle of Britain, The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far. There are vintage Vampire jets from the Cold War era, a Bronco attack aircraft with links to the Gulf and Vietnam conflicts, and a Strikemaster armed version of the Jet Provost trainer. A pair of 1930s Stearman biplanes, with daring wingwalkers strapped to the 16 | Early Summer 2018

Other flying action includes an RAF Tutor trainer, a Long-EZ flying wing flown by local businessman Dan Gay, and a fun autogyro.

Flying action is from 1pm to 5pm each day – but visitors are being encouraged to arrive early to enjoy the resort’s other attractions, along with a range of stalls, displays and pop-up bars along the seafront.

The Haven Great Yarmouth Air Show, organised by the Greater Yarmouth Tourism and Business Improvement Area (GYTABIA) as part of its drive to bring more visitors and spending to the area – for the benefit of local traders, from hotels and holiday parks, to cafés and corner shops.

Air show director Asa Morrison said: “Our first ever air show is shaping up to be a cracker – with an exciting line-up of star aircraft and thrilling team displays which visitors can watch from the natural grandstand of the seafront.”

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And GYTABIA chairman Gareth Brown added: “We are ready for take-off on an event which we hope will become a regular reason for people to visit the area to enjoy the air displays, but also some of the many other attractions on offer.”

See more air show details – including how to book park-and-ride tickets or daily premium parking spots near the seafront - at the event website www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/airshow/.

Follow the air show updates on Facebook @GreatYarmouthAirShow and Twitter @GYAirShow.

PARKING PLEA People planning to attend the Haven Great Yarmouth Air Show are being urged to book their parking as soon as possible.

Two large park and ride sites with more than 5000 spaces are operating on the outskirts of the town – at the Racecourse and Beacon Park.

There are also premium parking spots at three locations in easy walking distance of the seafront.

Seafront car parks will be closed for security reasons and there will be street closures, so organisers are encouraging showgoers to book their parking now, as spaces will be in high demand on show days.

Air show director Asa Morrison said: “This is going to be a brilliant event for the area – but that also means lots of traffic as people flock to see our flying displays. ”Our aim is to make it as hassle-free as possible for drivers – with a combination of parkand-ride and some convenient spaces close to the seafront. A lot of planning has gone into the parking in consultation with the police and borough council to ensure it is easy to book, easy to use, safe and convenient.”

The Racecourse park and ride is geared up for people coming in from the Norwich direction and the north, and at Beacon Park for drivers heading coming in from the south. Fees range from £10-£18 per vehicle.

There are 600 spaces including Blue Badge slots – at Premium Parking locations at North Drive, South Beach Parade and Euston Road.

For more pricing information and to book Premium parking daily tickets and park-and-ride tickets visit the air show website www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/air-show

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Norfolk & Norwich F E S T I VA L

The Norfolk & Norwich Festival is on this month, Norwich-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, reports

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his year the Norfolk & Norwich Festival runs from Friday 11th to Sunday 27th May offering an enterprising and varied programme spanning performance, theatre, music, visual arts, literature, circus, outdoor and family events which includes world and UK premières, one-off spectaculars plus a host of free events. The festival will showcase a myriad of renowned international artists from countries as diverse as Syria, Australia and India alongside the best local Norfolk and UK talent.

Shows will be presented throughout the county ranging from Great Yarmouth to Wells-next-the-Sea. Daniel Brine, Festival Director, said: ‘The festival’s a wonderful time to celebrate our city and county, to bring communities together to experience great art and performance and to welcome artists and visitors from across the UK and, indeed, from around the world. Our programme is broad and rich and we’re proud to be presenting world premières alongside celebrated productions not previously seen in Norfolk.

‘This year the festival has been put together by all members of our team. My predecessor, William Galinsky, laid the foundations with major commissions and partnerships and the team, along with our principal programming partners, Britten Sinfonia, Serious and Writers’ Centre Norwich, has given flesh and life to the programme. I’ve joined as we put the finishing touches in place and I’ve quickly immersed myself in the excitement and challenge of delivering one of the UK’s most dynamic arts festivals.’

And a big coup for the festival is getting Improbable to the city who’ll be staging the world première of ‘The Paper Man’ which explores and faces what we do when fascism hits town. The work was inspired by the unexplained death of Austrian football star, Matthias Sindelar, in 1939, who humiliated the Nazi régime by refusing to throw a match. The production follows middle-aged, white British football ‘addict-in-recovery’ and co-founder of Improbable, Lee Simpson, in his search for answers.

An interesting production comes with Frozen Light’s ‘The Isle of Brimsker’, a new multi-sensory story from a company which specialises in making theatre for audiences with profound and

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multiple-learning disabilities. The scenario surrounds a lighthousekeeper and a runaway. In contrast, ‘Provisional Figures’ offers a new piece of theatre from award-winning Portuguese film-theatre director, Marco Martins, inspired by the ten thousand Portuguese immigrants who arrived in Great Yarmouth in the mid-2000s.

Presented in the Borough, the show will be accompanied by a celebration of Portuguese culture, food and drink.

Other performance highlights include Forced Entertainment’s comical, absurd and acclaimed Real Magic plus, as part of the City of Literature programme, Rosy Carrick’s mixed-media, timetravel, show ‘Passionate Machine’; the tour-de-force of the live literature circuit, ‘Hannah Silva’s Talk in a Bit’; Jack Dean’s protest show, ‘Nuketown’; Tim Clare and Mark Grist’s ’Voted Out’ which uses state-of-the-art voting technology to give audience members the power of choice.

The Dance programme includes the return of world-renowned choreographer, Hofesh Shechter, with his heartstopping show, ‘Grand Finale’, animated by six musicians live on stage while Gandini Juggling’s new show ‘Sigma’ blends juggling and classical Indian dance and multimedia projections and inclusive dance companies, Stopgap and Flex, bring two free shows to outdoor spaces.

The Literature programme includes writers such as punk musician, Viv Albertine; Caspar Henderson talking on natural history and neuroscience; Sarah Perry and special guests marking an important year for women in writing: eighty years of ‘Rebecca’, the 100th birthday of Muriel Spark and the 200th anniversary of ‘Frankenstein’.

Hilary Spurling will discuss her long-awaited portrait of Anthony Powell; Rachel Hewitt will speak on the history of emotional thinking and Fred Pearce on humanity’s nuclear history; Hugh Lupton will tell the story of making his new novel ‘The Mabinogion’; TED speaker and author of New York Times bestseller, ‘Chasing the Scream’, Johann Hari, will discuss his new book ‘Lost Connection’; Professor of Psychology, Charles Fernyhough, and Professor of Disability Research, Tom Shakespeare, will discuss how books help one understand diversity and Caitlin Davies will explore the real-life stories of women prisoners in ‘Bad Girls’.

During the festival there will be 5x15 on the mysteries of human

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Purves, join the celebrated actor, Simon Russell-Beale, for a programme of music and poetry in ‘Songs of the Sea’.

And with the continuation of the partnership with BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists, the festival will offer audiences the opportunity to hear some of the most promising new talent from around the world with concerts featuring Ashley Riches, Mariam Batsashvili, Aleksey Semenenko and Andrei Ionita.

The Adnams Spiegeltent return with a characteristically-vibrant programme which includes headline show ‘Shift’ from Barely Methodical Troupe and cabaret sensation, Le Gateau Chocolat, will deliver a personal tribute to his musical heroes plus there will be a host of lively late-night gigs curated by Serious including West African female super-group, Les Amazones d’Afrique, while award-winning jazz singer, Barb Jungr, will portray the songs of Bob Dylan in her inimitable and discerning way. brains and bodies; a Writes Back! mini-series covering Autism, Disability and D/deafness; a community takeover of the council chamber of Norwich City Hall to debate well-being, environment and integrations with Ben Okri and a live telling of Preti Taneja’s deeplymoving and award-winning novella, ‘Kumkum Malhorta’, set in New Delhi, with the event being held in the grounds of Norwich Castle.

And in England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers’ Centre Norwich are proud to be presenting once again a world-class literature programme which includes the City of Literature Weekend taking place over three full days

There’ll also be performances from MOBO winners, Binker & Moses; jazz-influenced afro-beat band, Maisha, and South London Royal Academy graduate, Ashley Henry. House of Waters will turn up, too, bringing with them their melting-pot of multiple sounds while those festival favourites, The Ragroof Tea Dances, are back.

The Free Outdoor programme brings world-class performances from across Europe to Norwich’s parks and open spaces and will be seen in action with Transe Express featuring their carnivalesque drummers who’ll take over the streets of the city

The Contemporary Music programme, co-curated by EFG London Jazz Festival producers, Serious, include one of the world’s most-respected groups, Ladysmith Black Mambazo; five-time Grammy Award winner, American singer-songwriter, Mary Chapin Carpenter, promises a great night of country-style music; Ben Fold will perform some of his best-loved songs with just a piano; Mercury Music Prize and South Bank prize-winner, Talvin Singh, will present a brand-new project featuring beatboxer, Jason Singh; David McAlmont’s gig, ‘Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall’, mirrors a concert inspired by Lady Day’s legendary 1956 concert in this iconic New York venue with Almont’s interpreting her most well-known songs; Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening will present a brand-new concert; Opera North is all set to deliver a livescored screening of The Battleship Potemkin with music by Jan Bang and Matt Calvert; Grammy Award nominee, Deva Mahal, Jyotsna Srikanth & Bollywood Brass Band and Syrian musician, Maya Youssef Trio, will all perform at Norwich Playhouse while Amanda Palmer - one half of the cult-punk cabaret duo, The Dresden Dolls - can be seen at OPEN with the show getting under way by comedian, Andrew O’Neill.

The Classical Music programme - co-curated for the second-year running by David Butcher of the Britten Sinfonia - sees a welcome return visit by Thomas Adès. And following their sell-out performance of Beethoven’s first and second symphonies last year they continue their journey with the fourth and fifth symphonies which will be heard alongside the music of Gerald Barry featuring the British pianist, Nicolas Hodges, who has recorded music by many contemporary composers.

Other highlights include Robert Trevino conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of Mahler and Rachmaninov featuring the Russian pianist, Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev; Norwich, Ely and Peterborough cathedral choirs will combine in a concert premièring a new work by New York born, Alex Woolf, who, in 2012, won the BBC Young Composer of the Year award; The Sixteen return with a programme spanning 500 years of British choral music; The Trout Quintet (Hyeyoon Park, Brett Dean, Kian Soltani, Leon Bosch along with pianist, Benjamin Grosvenor) join together for a special concert; universally-acclaimed singers, Mark Padmore and Christopher 24 | Early Summer 2018

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while larger-than-life singing dolls on stilts will transform the public spaces of Norwich into a fantastical open-air opera-house with their parade drifting through the streets of the city culminating in a spectacular aerial finale.

Other programme highlights include Marco Barotti’s robotic woodpeckers popping up across the city and transforming mobile signals into beats tapped out on to the city’s architecture while ‘Wayfaring’ - a large-scale première piece from And Now - inspired by the ancient routes of the Icknield Way, will set Wells-next-theSea beach alight with illumination, music and performance in what promises a grand celebration like no other.

The Garden Party will also return for the middle weekend of the festival with breath-taking circus, intriguing illusions, life-like puppets and strange beings from outer space.

And the festival is thrilled to bits to be continuing its membership of the Creative Europe In Situ network and the UK-based, Without Walls, bringing to the festival the very best outdoor work from across the UK and the Continent. Incidentally, both networks are supporting NNF’s own commissions.

The Visual Arts programme includes Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall with new ‘never-seen-before’ paintings; Glasgow-based, Turner Prize-shortlisted artist, Nathan Coley, at East Gallery and leading British sculptor, Lynn Chadwick’s ‘Beasts’ - comprising three striking sculptures - can be viewed at leisure at the Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park.

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Family events include in the free outdoor programme the Britten Sinfonia presenting ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ while Kid Carpet and the Noisy Animals will take younger audiences on a silly and lively journey about going on holiday. Plus there are free storytelling, dancing and music events for Early Years in the famed Adnams Spiegeltent.

The Festival Box Office is located at Norwich Theatre Royal. Tel: 01603 766400 On-line booking: nnfestival.org.uk Full information on all Norfolk & Norwich Festival events and listings visit www.nnfestival.org.uk Twitter: @NNFest Facebook: www.facebook.com/NNFestival Instagram: @NNFest

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BBC Proms 2018 A SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL LIKE NO OTHER

Tony Cooper, BBC Radio Norfolk’s culture vulture, reports on this year’s BBC Proms - the world’s largest classical-music festival

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hen the season of the BBC Proms arrive, I always think that summer has truly arrived. A feast of music like no other, the Proms (running from Friday 13th July to Saturday 8th September) offers so much over its eight weeks of music-making not least by the famous Last Night which this year features Roxanna Panufnik’s new work, ‘Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light’, a BBC commission.

The Proms - so closely associated with Sir Henry Wood (Old Timber) who, by the way, was no stranger to Norwich as he was artistic director/conductor of the Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival from 1908 to 1930 - bring to London some of the world’s greatest classical musicians. This year beating a path to Kensington Gore will be Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmonic, Sir Antonio Pappano with the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome and Daniel Barenboim with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as well as such acclaimed soloists as the American soprano Joyce DiDonato, American violinist Joshua Bell and Chinese pianist, Yuja Wang. And this is just for starters!

This year, too, the Proms will be celebrating the birth of Leonard Bernstein, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. His work as a conductor, composer, pianist and educationalist will be explored in depth while John Wilson will lead performances of West Side Story - one of the best-loved musicals of all time - as well as Bernstein’s 1944 production, On the Town.

On the Bank Holiday weekend, Monday 27th August (what would have been Bernstein’s 100th birthday) the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will make their Proms début under their esteemed musical director, Marin Alsop, a former student of Bernstein. In fact, Ms Alsop made Proms history by becoming the first female conductor to preside over the Last Night in 2013 with a repeat performance a couple of years later.

In his numerous television presentations Bernstein brought classical music to generations of new audiences. As a tribute to this work, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Joshua Weilerstein (Sunday 26th August) will explore ‘The Sound of an Orchestra’ in a unique event in which the audience will be treated to a vivid tapestry of words, projections and music with creative direction coming from Gerard McBurney and projection design from Mike Tutaj.

In a similar vein, the second Relaxed Prom (Monday 27th August) will offer an informal environment for all to experience a world-class music event featuring the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, who, incidentally, Marin Alsop conducted over a sixyear period from 2002. Conducted by Sian Edwards - making her BSO début - she’ll be joined by the disabled-led ensemble BSO Resound and director James Rose to mark the first major UK performance by this pioneering ensemble, forging the way for extraordinary musicians with disability.

It’s also a century since the end of the First World War and the Proms will revisit this key period in modern history. A contemporary response by one of today’s most imaginative and eclectic young composers, Anna Meredith, in collaboration with 59 Productions, has written a major new work for orchestra, choir and projections which will be premièred on the First Night (Friday 13th July). In fact, Anna Meredith is one of 24 women composers championed by the Proms this year as the festival reflects on Parliament’s 1918 decision to grant the vote to women aged 30 and over. Ms Meredith, too, is no stranger to Norwich as she was commissioned by Roger Rowe (on behalf of the Norfolk & Norwich Music Club) to write a piano sextet as a companion piece to the

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Poulenc sextet. Entitled ‘Railgun’, it received its première at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, on 24th September 2011, performed by the London-based chamber ensemble, Chroma.

And in a joint commission by the BBC Proms, 14-18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival, ‘Five Telegrams’ will explore varied forms of communication from the Front Lines drawing on the talents of both the BBC Proms Youth Ensemble and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. They’ll join the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of their chief conductor, Sakari Oramo.

Once again, the BBC orchestras and choirs provide the backbone to the Proms appearing in over a third of the concerts. And the British composer of Polish heritage, Roxanna Panufnik, receives the coveted Last Night of the Proms commission and as part of the Proms Chamber Music series, eight women, never previously commissioned by the BBC, receive world premières, too, including Laura Mvula and Bushra El-Turk.

The centenary of Debussy’s death provides a launch-pad for an exploration of French music therefore tracing Debussy’s role in shaping the 20th-century canon some of his most influential works will be heard such as Pelléas et Mélisande and La mer appearing alongside a range of repertoire by his contemporary, Ravel. The Proms also pay tribute to another French composer, Lili Boulanger, who died tragically young in the same year aged just 24 and Hubert Parry - the composer of the Last Night favourite Jerusalem and teacher to Holst, Bridge and Vaughan Williams - also passed away in 1918.

As BBC Young Musician celebrates its 40th birthday, the Proms will present the first-ever Young Musician Prom, a gala concert bringing together over 20 of the competition’s alumni including the likes of violinist Nicola Benedetti, clarinettist Michael Collins and cellist Sheku 0Kanneh-Mason.

This concert mirrors a celebration of the BBC Proms Inspire scheme for young composers in its 20th birthday year and the fourth consecutive BBC Ten Pieces Prom, a ground-breaking initiative that has already reached over four million people. This summer it will collaborate with English Pen, an arts charity working with young people from asylum-seeker and refugee backgrounds, and London Music Masters, an organisation focused on reaching children and young people in London’s poorest neighbourhoods.

Passionate about providing opportunities for young performers and encouraging the next generation of classical musicians, the Proms will witness over 1500 young people take to the Royal Albert Hall stage on Saturday 21st July as part of the BBC Proms Youth Choir performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

The Proms continues to expand the breadth and diversity of its programming ranging from a solo recital by the Coptic Australian oud virtuoso, Joseph Tawadros, to a Prom devoted to vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and YouTube sensation, Jacob Collier.

Undoubtedly, this season offers a wealth of intriguing projects.

A total of nine Late Night Proms will contain an eclectic range of musical styles that reflect the more intimate setting of these ‘afterhours’ events. Highlights include the Proms début of Grammy Award-winning Senegalese singer, Youssou Ndour and his band

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British composer Roxanna Panufnik (photo: Benjmin Ealovega)

and Le Super Étoile de Dakar while original members of the Buena Vista Social Club come to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time presenting a programme entitled ‘Havana Meets Kingston’ fusing the sound worlds of traditional and contemporary Cuba and Jamaica.

And in ‘New York: Sound of a City’ Proms favourite Jules Buckley and a line-up of rising stars explore the current sounds on New York’s streets embracing everything from disco-punk to feminist rap. Also in the Late Night series, Sir András Schiff - who later this year (Monday 8th October) will make his Norwich début as guest of the Norfolk & Norwich Music Club - will conclude his two-year Bach project performing Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier.

There will be over 90 début performances this season most notably the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted

by Jonathan Nott, in its centenary year while 42 première performances will be heard across the summer. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra will deliver two Proms in one exciting day presenting Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos alongside six newlycommissioned companion works by Uri Caine, Brett Dean, Anders Hillborg, Olga Neuwirth, Steven Mackey and Mark-Anthony Turnage thus creating a brand-new musical cycle spanning almost three centuries. As well as eight Monday lunchtime chamber-music concerts at Cadogan Hall, the ‘Proms at …’ series returns, following its launch in 2016, matching music to three specific venues. *Camden’s Roundhouse will host a concert by the London Sinfonietta (Saturday 21st July) conducted by George Benjamin in celebration of the orchestra’s 50th birthday whilst also marking 100 years since the end of the First World War. New works - BBC co-commissions with 14-18 NOW and the London Sinfonietta will be heard by Luca Francesconi, George Friedrich Haas, Hannah Kendall and Isabel Mundry. *A trip out of London for the secondyear running (Saturday 4th August) will see Stravinsky’s 1918 30 | Early Summer 2018

music-theatre piece The Soldier’s Tale performed by the Hebrides Ensemble conducted by William Conway. The theatrical tale of a soldier who sells his soul to the devil seems fitting against the backdrop of a venue designed for the Fourth Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment which in August 1914 was mobilised at the Drill Hall before being deployed to the Western Front. *Proms audiences will gain a first glimpse of the Victorian Theatre at Alexandra Palace - which has remained ‘dark’ since the 1950s - before its restoration is fully completed. The BBC Concert Orchestra under Jane Glover (Saturday 1st September) will be joined by a leading cast including Neal Davies, Mary Bevan and Sam Furness as the ‘People’s Palace’ gets set to hear Gilbert and Sullivan’s one-act operetta, Trial by Jury, written in 1875, the same year that the theatre was built.

As the world’s biggest classical music festival, the BBC Proms offers eight weeks of world-class music-making from a vast array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from the UK and around the world. Across more than 90 concerts - and a similar number of free events designed to extend and further enrich the audience’s Proms experience - the festival aims to offer a summer of music that allows for the most diverse and exciting musical journeys.

More than 120 years since it was founded, the driving factor in building a festival of this scale is to offer exceptional music-making at the lowest possible prices, continuing founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original ambition of bringing the best classical music to the widest possible audience. With every Prom broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, available across multiplatform and many televised on the BBC, the Proms reaches far and beyond the Royal Albert Hall.

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across classical, contemporary music, folk, world, jazz and opera as well as drama, philosophy and ideas. The station is also the most significant commissioner of new and contemporary music in the UK with 35 new works commissioned annually and broadcasts over 600 concerts a year including live broadcasts from the greatest classical music festival in the world, namely, the BBC Proms.

Radio 3’s ‘In Concert’ programme alone reaches the equivalent of 250 packed concert halls each week and the BBC orchestras and choirs give around 400 concerts a year in over 60 UK locations.

The station has always nurtured extraordinary artistic talents, provided a platform for important scientific and political debates/ announcements and broadcast ground-breaking experimental drama, always while delivering its core aim of connecting audiences with pioneering music and culture.

David Pickard, Director, BBC Proms, says: ‘I’m delighted that the BBC Proms this year will feature more than 90 début artists alongside many wonderful Proms regulars in 90 concerts over eight weeks. With 42 début premières, nine Late Night Proms and two new venues - London’s Alexandra Palace and Lincoln’s Drill Hall for our ‘Proms at …’ series, I’m excited by the broad offering we’ve developed for audiences this year.

We shall explore many remarkable musical and artistic connections to the year 1918 including a special celebration of works by women composers in a year which marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.’

Alan Davey, Controller, BBC Radio 3, BBC Proms, BBC Orchestras and Choirs, says: ‘David Pickard, the Proms team and I are very proud of the great range of concerts we have packed into eight weeks of music-making at the 2018 BBC Proms.

The BBC Orchestras and Choirs remain the bedrock of the Proms while we welcome world-renowned visiting orchestras some, such as the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande and Music Aeterna, for the first time. Every note will be broadcast on Radio 3 and online in our usual high-quality sound and many Proms will be available in binaural sound online allowing listeners never to miss a note and to feel as if they are fully present at these amazing musical events. In a further innovation this year the Relaxed Prom will be accompanied by an audio description available through headsets for the blind and partially-sighted live audience and across BBC Radio 3’s broadcast coverage.’

Francesca Kemp, Executive Producer, BBC Proms on Television, says: ‘Over 16 million people in the UK watched the BBC Proms on TV last year. With a regular and fully-curated offering of concerts broadcast every weekend on BBC Four, a host of content from the wider season will also be available on iPlayer while Katie Derham in her role as host for the magazine show, Proms Extra on www.1Magazine.co.uk

BBC Two, will showcase the best of the season from the Royal Albert Hall making it a truly memorable summer on TV.’ Every Prom will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and, for the second year running, the entire festival will be presented as a binaural audio stream, enabling radio listeners to experience the concerts as if they were present in the Royal Albert Hall / bbc.co.uk/proms There are regular television broadcasts every weekend (Friday and Sunday) across the summer on BBC Four reflecting the full breadth of the season.

Proms Extra - the weekly magazine show hosted by Katie Derham - returns for its sixth season every Saturday evening on BBC Two. The First Night of the Proms will be live on BBC Two and the Last Night on BBC Two and BBC One. Tickets are available via bbc. co.uk/proms or 020 7070 4441 and in person at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Proms season runs from Friday 14th July to Saturday 9th September.

Check out the full Proms programme by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/proms Travel to London and the BBC Proms by train: Greater Anglia run regular services every half hour from Norwich to London Liverpool Street.

For the return journey the last two trains leave London Liverpool Street at 22.30 and 23.30 and these trains also serve Ipswich for those travelling back to Suffolk.

Regular services from Norwich to London Liverpool Street have fares starting from £10 (one way) but need to be booked in advance. For more information and best-value fares offered by Greater Anglia log on to www.greateranglia.co.uk The First Night of the Proms will be live on BBC Twoand the Last Night on on BBC Two and

BBC One There are around 100,000 tickets available at £15 or under including standing tickets costing just £6 - these are available on the day of the concert. Half-price tickets are also available for under-18s in any seating area but not, of course, for the Last Night (Prom 75).

Tickets are available via bbc.co.uk/proms or 020 7070 4441 and in person at the Royal Albert Hall. The BBC Proms season runs from Friday 14th July to Saturday 9th September.

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Darkest Hour Film review by Stephen Browning

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he final words of this amazing film stay with me. In the House of Commons, after the famous ‘We will fight them on the beaches’ speech and with the House cheering Churchill to the rafters, one man asks another ‘What has he just done?’. The reply, and last words of the film are ‘He has just mobilized the English Language and sent it into battle’.

For lovers of the English Language like myself, Churchilll was – sorry still is – a magician. And he did just what the chap above said: as a historian I wonder just how many thousands of fighting men, planes and ships his words were worth. Hitler, with all his highly rehearsed speechmaking, was never in the same league but a pathetic strutting little moron.

I admit I had put off watching this film partly because I have just finished a book about the Second World War and I thought it might for me make heavy, though very worthy, viewing as some recent films of the great man have been excruciating.

I actually caught up with it on a long-haul flight of 13 hours from Hong Kong to London when the entertainment options are somewhat limited (the other film I watched on the flight was ‘Paddington 2’ which, for totally different reasons, is also fab but it was a genuine case of going from the sublime to the ridiculous) and, once more to my amazement, I sat through the whole thing again immediately.

tube carriage and everyone stands up in panic and offers him a seat. ‘What are you all staring at?’ he asks. ‘Have you never seen the Prime Minister travelling the underground before?’

He then chats to them all and finds out what they think about making peace with Germany. It is a bit cheesy when he asks a woman how old her baby is. She tells him and then says ‘he looks like you, sir’ and he replies’ Madam, all babies look like me’. Then, when they all say ‘Never’ to peace terms, he cries. I admit that at this, and other times, I was having trouble with my own eyes – it was due to the air in the aircraft, I am sure: it is very dry, you know.

Finally, though, plaudits go to Gary Oldman for his Oscar-winning performance. It is everything you have read about it. He IS Churchill. Most amazing to me is not the boisterousness nor the ‘stubborn bull’ attitude but the vulnerability of the man. He had the gravest doubts about his ability to lead the nation against odds that everyone said were impossible, but he did and changed the course of the world as well as the English language.

Please go see – I will be mightily surprised if you do not find it charming, funny, tragic and much else. In my own case, never in the field of human flights have so many minutes passed so quickly on an aircraft with so many sniffles and laughs. Excellent.

The reason is that it is not ‘heavy’ at all but very, very funny.

Churchill’s jokes flow almost as readily as do the champagne and brandy he liked to have for breakfast. It is even a bit fluffy, especially in the scenes with his secretary – a marvellous idealistic Lily James and his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas, who steals a couple of scenes).

He also has a strong story arc with the king (Aussie actor Ben Mendelsohn) who, as a reluctant and shy man who had no wish for the crown which was thrust upon his head owing to the abdication of his brother, begins by admitting that Churchill scares him. Then, in a moving scene, played as straight as you like, he visits Churchill late at night in the darkest of the darkest hours and tells him that anyone who can put the wind up Hitler is OK with him and maybe they can become close confidants. ‘Don’t I scare you anymore, your Majesty?’ asks the Prime Minister. ‘Well, maybe just a little’, says the king, ‘but I can cope with it’.

The script is sharp and keen, although I cannot comment on the music as the roar of the jet engines and the snores of my neighbour put paid to that, but I am sure it is very good – I have read so.

My favourite scene? It is not actually the final one during which apparently audiences have been known to stand and applaud, but one just before that when he jumps out of his chauffeur-driven car at traffic lights and takes the Tube.

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pplications now open for Holt Festival-Sir John Hurt Art Prize. Leading north Norfolk festival also announces Open Studios scheme.

One of the east of England’s top art prizes, the Holt Festival-Sir John Hurt Art Prize, is now inviting entries for the 2018 exhibition.

The cash prize has been increased to £1,750 and the winning entry will also be exhibited at the prestigious Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.

about Open Studios should email openstudios@holtfestival.org The 2018 Holt Festival runs from 21 – 29 July and has become acknowledged as the leading new festival in the county. The charming Norfolk Georgian country town comes alive for an exuberant week of international music, drama, visual art, dance, comedy and children’s shows. The full programme can be found on www.holtfestival.org

The Sir John Hurt Art Prize is open to artists everywhere and in previous years there have been entries from all over the UK. All types of visual art are welcome.

The judges will select a shortlist of 25-30 which will be listed on the festival website and exhibited at the Auden Theatre, Holt between 21-29 July with the winner announced at a private view on the evening of Sunday 22 July. The exhibition is part of the Holt Festival Art Trail that also takes in many other galleries and exhibition spaces around the town.

Last year’s competition once again attracted an extremely high standard of entries with the winner coming from Norfolk artist Chloe Steele. Her pencil drawing, Beginnings End, was unanimously selected from over 250 entries and announced by Lady Anwen Hurt (see attached image).

Festival organisers have also announced the first Holt Festival Open Studios, a great opportunity for artists within 15 miles of Holt to invite the public to their studios. It will run from 21-23 July between 10am & 5pm and a map detailing participating artists will be available to download from www.holtfestival.org .

Open Studios are FREE to visit and offer people the chance to meet artists in their own studios to talk about their work and buy original artworks directly from their creators.

Holt Festival Fine Art Director James Glennie commented ‘The Holt Festival-Sir John Hurt Art Prize and Open Studios are great opportunities for both emerging and established artists. The Prize becomes better known each year with entries coming from further afield and the quality getting better each time, making the new team of distinguished judges job ever more difficult.

There are so many talented artists in the area and we hope that the Open Studios will enable many of them to reach new audiences as well as giving the art loving public the opportunity to meet and learn about our local artists’.

The closing date for both Prize entries and Open Studios applications is midnight Sunday 17th June 2018.

This year’s Art Prize judges are renowned painter and printmaker Eileen Cooper RA, modern and contemporary British art specialist Robert Upstone, who was a senior Tate curator for 23 years, and Lady Anwen Hurt who has maintained a life-long interest in the visual arts and was married to actor/artist Sir John Hurt. Sir John Hurt Art Prize and Open Studios entry forms can be downloaded from www.holtfestival.org/whats-on/art-prize. Artists with queries

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Royal Norfolk Show

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Summer’s here! And so are the region’s agricultural shows. Norfolk boy, Tony Cooper, takes a look at the Royal Norfolk Show - one of the country’s finest!

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his year’s Royal Norfolk Show - one of the country’s largest and grandest agricultural shows organised by the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) - takes place on Wednesday/Thursday, 27th/28th June, running daily from 8am at the Norfolk Showground, Dereham Road, New Costessey NR5 0TT. Getting the Royal Norfolk Show on the road, however, takes a lot of preparation and, therefore, it’s all hands on deck for the welldrilled team headed by RNAA’s chief executive, Greg Smith, to make it all happen. For instance, 150 acres of grass needs to be cut, two miles of hedges trimmed, 140 signs erected, 800 benches and fences painted lapping up 150 litres of bright white paint. And that’s just for starters!

And with thousands of animals to be cared for 265 temporary stables need to be erected along with 500 sheep-pens while it takes a good five months to prepare the horse rings and, at least, two weeks to jet-wash the cattle shed. On top of all this, 55 tonnes of straw will be extensively used over the two days of The Show.

But the organisers of the Royal Norfolk Show - which has truly become one of the county’s major social events of the year with families and friends gathering together to celebrate food, farming and the countryside - are used to it.

They’ve had a lot of practice over the years, of course, as the Royal Norfolk Show - which enjoys an excellent reputation and still holds firmly to its agricultural roots, the true essence and, indeed, the raison-d’être of The Show itself - dates back to the 1847..

Each and every year three key themes are chosen which aim to expand the appeal for visitors, offer additional platforms for business engagement while keeping The Show - which attracts over 80,000 people over a fun-packed two-day event - exciting and fresh for all. Therefore, the key themes this year comprise ‘Field to Fork’, ‘Our Coast’ and ‘Wellbeing’.

‘Field to Fork’ will help visitors find out about the massive contribution that Norfolk makes to food production and will bind everything at the heart of The Show from innovative agriculture to celebrating local food producers. With 90 miles of stunning

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coastline, alive with a range of industries, the theme ‘Our Coast’ will provide information about life on our coast and some of the amazing organisations who work there. The UK has made great strides in highlighting the importance of mental health, therefore ‘Wellbeing’ will promote a healthy lifestyle not only through sport and fitness activities but showing, too, that our mental health is just as important as our physical health.

A brand-new horticultural experience, headed up by garden consultant and writer, Ellen Mary, will, hopefully, inspire both the amateur and professional gardener. The new area will feature show gardens, school gardens, community allotments and charity allotments with plot-to-plate demonstrations, indoor and urban gardening and dazzling displays of flower, fruit and vegetables organised by the Norfolk & Norwich Horticultural Society.

This year the Art of Butchery will host additional fishmongery demonstrations as part of the ‘Field to Fork’ and ‘Our Coast’ themes.

Some of the county’s top butchers and fishmongers will come together to show you how to prepare the best meat and fish and be on hand to answer any questions.

The popularity of the Adnams Food and Drink Experience has been exceptional and The Show is set to expand their artisan food offering by introducing a new experience to showgoers called ‘Flavours’. This new food hub - focusing on top-quality local producers can be found in the retail area.

The only display in Norfolk this year celebrating the centenary of the First World War sees an exact replica of a First World War Mk 4 tank - built by daredevil speedster Guy Martin and the Norfolk Tank Museum as part of a Channel 4 documentary - taking centre stage in the Grand Ring as part of a unique First World War commemorative event.

Another big Grand Ring display centres upon The Adrenaline Tour with Jason Smyth’s Quad Bike Stunt Show featuring some of the UK’s top quad bike stunt-riders who’ll fly over 30-foot high obstacles whilst jumping a massive 75 feet in the air from rampto-ramp performing a series of risky and breath-taking aerial tricks.

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They’ll be seen in action against a grand display lined up by Clive Shaw Trucking featuring a show-winning fleet of American trucks coming direct to Norfolk from their appearance at the London Motor Show. Also included in Clive Shaw Trucking’s grand display will be the Kenworth W900B American truck owned by Burt Reynolds, recently purchased by Clive Shaw, who has restored it back to its original factory-build sheet.

Jason Smyth’s Quad Bike Stunt Show will also include the spectacular quad freestyle show of catching items of memorabilia in mid-air and then awarding them to spectators as well as the everpopular street-style stunts where the action is brought closer to the crowd.

An informative and humorous commentary will also be provided

by Jason Smyth (a former World Championship Motocross rider) through a microphone attached to his helmet as he performs a host of stunning stunts, too, interacting with the audience whilst gracefully flying through the air like the man on the flying trapeze!

Mark Nicholas, Show Director, said: ‘The excitement is already building for Norfolk’s Big Celebration. The Royal Norfolk Show stands the test of time and this year visitors will enjoy an offering featuring the best of the county.

The unique spectacle of livestock showing is always a top draw and a great way to show support for our farmers. Beyond this there is something for everyone at The Show comprising entertainment, food and drink produce, retail, music, innovation, discovery, landscape, equestrian events, crafts, horticulture and visual art. The list is endless! We look forward to welcoming you.’

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A registered charity the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) aims to help educate young people and adults and to bring people and businesses together through a range of inspiring events to promote a better understanding of food, farming and the countryside.

The RNAA’s origins date back to 1847 with Norfolk being one of the oldest county agricultural associations in the country.

In 1908, the Association was granted the ‘royal’ prefix by King Edward VII and in 1952 following over 70 years of holding the Royal Norfolk Show (one of only six ‘royal’ shows held in the UK) at a range of locations throughout the county, the Association purchased land at New Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich to create a permanent showground.

The first Royal Norfolk Show was held here in 1954 and since then a great deal of investment has been devoted in enhancing and improving the site, the latest development being the completion of a £1.4m investment in the Norfolk Showground Arena, making it one of the largest and most sophisticated event spaces to be found in the region.

Through the funds it generates, the RNAA annually supports its charitable aims through an extensive educational outreach programme and by making grants and donations to agricultural projects and related organisations around Norfolk.

Agriculture, education, careers, skills and supporting businesses large and small both in Norfolk and farther afield are still at the heart of the Royal Norfolk Show’s philosophy. And with

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the introduction of The Show’s three new themes comprising numerous trade, sponsorship and corporate opportunities, it provides a unique opportunity for companies to build upon one’s brand in the region. Importantly, too, it also provides businesses a chance to demonstrate their support for food, farming and the countryside by putting their businesses directly in front of the Royal Norfolk Show’s battalion of eager visitors.

The Royal Norfolk Show organisers are also continuing their support for small businesses and local food-and-drink producers through the successful partnership they enjoy with HSBC. Online tickets for the Royal Norfolk Show are on sale now and advance tickets can only be bought from the Royal Norfolk Show website www.royalnorfolkshow.co.uk and tickets bought online and in advance include free car-parking.

An advance two-day adult ticket is £34 (only available online) - this is a saving of £18 if you were to buy two single adult tickets at the gate for each day.

An advance one-day adult ticket is £21, a child’s advance one-day ticket (aged 5-16) is £8 (under-5s, free) and an advance family ticket (2 adults and 3 children aged 5-16) is £47.

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A range of concessions are also available.

For more information on the RNAA visit www.rnaa.org.uk and on the Royal Norfolk Show www.royalnorfolkshow.co.uk FEATURE BY:

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Party games, fun, drinks and everyday tales of domestic abuse Inventive, accessible, empowering and above all entertaining dance/theatre performance shines a light on abuse and highlights human resilience

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eet Beverly. You’re invited to her party. Like most parties there’ll be fun and games, drinks, shared conversations and energetic dancing. But at Beverly’s party there will also be genuine heartbreaking moments as Beverly bravely gives a raw and honest account of surviving an abusive relationship.

Smack That (a conversation) is the new show from endlessly inventive choreographer and theatremaker Rhiannon Faith. It shines a light on the complex subject of domestic abuse featuring an all female cast of seven, a close-knit group made up of both non-performers and experienced dance artists.

They all have their own personal experience of abuse and as each one fearlessly becomes Beverly they convey the turbulent, real life experiences of domestic abuse she, and they, have endured and survived. The party setting creates a safe space for them to reveal the challenges they have faced and to celebrate their endurance with the audience.

Dance East are bringing Smack That (a conversation) to Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich on Friday 8 June as part of a short UK tour before it heads for a five-day run at London’s Barbican Centre. .

Stories of abuse intertwine with party games and energetic dance routines to create a powerful, moving and unashamedly entertaining piece of theatre. The fun, upbeat party setting allows these voices to be heard without preaching, without prejudice and where marshmallows and party poppers readily mix with refuge contact information.

‘A performance that is as likeable as it is important’ Cambridge Independent Rhiannon said ‘The idea for the show has been with me for years from seeing the experiences and hearing the stories from friends and family and others who felt OK talking privately but lacked the confidence to talk publicly about what they had been (or still were) going through’.

I had to be totally sure that we would be able provide proper care and support for my Bev’s’.

In the UK police receive a complaint about domestic violence every 60 seconds.

One in four women experience domestic abuse in their lives.

On average a woman is assaulted 35 times before she receives help.

750,000 UK children witness domestic abuse or violence each year.

The annual cost of domestic violence to the UK is £15.7 billion.

In England and Wales one woman is killed by their partner or expartner every three days.

As part of the legacy of Smack That, all tour venues will be encouraged to become J9 centres. The national J9 initiative aims to provide safe and secure opportunities for victims to disclose domestic abuse and access a full support system. J9 venues display pink J9 stickers in their windows, signalling to the public that it is safe to talk. Staff at each J9 contact point are provided with training to raise awareness and increase understanding of domestic abuse. They are trained to signpost, advise and spot the signs of domestic abuse. Each venue has a safe place where victims can access information and use a phone to call for further help.

Smack That (a conversation) Inventive and accessible dance/theatre exploration of domestic abuse from Rhiannon Faith featuring an all female cast of seven with non-performers alongside experienced dance artists, all with personal experience of abuse.

Age 16+ Runs 80 minutes (no interval).

Friday 8 June 7.30pm Ipswich Jerwood DanceHouse, DanceEast, Foundry Lane IP4 1DW £12, £9 01473 295230 www.danceeast.co.uk

Crucially, Smack That (a conversation) is based on authentic stories told through the voices of victims of domestic violence and abuse.

It seeks to raise awareness of domestic abuse and move the conversations from private to public.

The show is designed to support women and encourage them to talk openly about their experiences. It is underpinned by Rhiannon’s work with a support group at Safer Places, the independent charity that provides services to adults and children affected by domestic and sexual abuse.

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LEIPZIG A CITY RICH IN MUSICAL HISTORY Leipzig’s imposing town-hall

Wagner music aficionado, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage trip to Leipzig, the birthplace of this outstanding and most-revered 19th-century composer

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eipzig is most certainly a city rich in musical history. For a start, Richard Wagner was born here. And history has pointed out that Wagner had a difficult start in his home town but, likewise, history has also shown that Leipzig and Wagner are bound together in a common union. For one thing, the first complete performance of the Ring of the Nibelung (the ‘Ring’ for short) outside of Bayreuth took place here in 1878.

And in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth in 2013, a new production of the Ring was mounted by Oper Leipzig, conceived by the English-born director/choreographer, Rosamund Gilmore, with the première of Das Rheingold taking place in 2013 building up to the first complete cycle in 2016.

No plans were on hand to revive it but the production is still in the repertoire and, gladly, will be revived next year with two further cycles on 6th/7th-13th/14th April and from 1st to 5th May. So the return of the Ring to Leipzig for the first time in over forty years - one of the prime initiatives of Ulf Schirmer on his appointment as musical director of Oper Leipzig in the 2009/10 season - was wildly greeted.

Overall, Ms Gilmore delivered a superb, inspiring and detailed account of the Ring while Wagner’s mighty score was safe in the hands of Ulf Schirmer and the Gewandhaus Orchestra especially in the big-production numbers such as The Ride of the Valkyries and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey not forgetting, of course, Brünnhilde’s famous Immolation Scene - one of Wagner’s greatest achievements - Maestro Schirmer pulled out all stops to deliver a thrilling account of Wagner’s mesmeric, inviting and challenging score.

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Incidentally, Ms Gilmore worked at Stuttgart with the former and well-respected South African-born choreographer/director John Cranko, whose work was produced by Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet (later becoming The Royal Ballet) and seen at Norwich Theatre Royal in the 1950s most notably with the delightful and carefree ballet Pineapple Poll while his first full-length work, The Prince of the Pagodas, was choreographed to a commissioned score by Benjamin Britten and premièred at the Royal Opera House in the same decade.

But if Wagner was so closely associated with Leipzig so was Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn and Johann Sebastian Bach while other notable composers such as Robert Schumann and Georg Philipp Telemann worked in Leipzig and George Frideric Handel was born just a few miles up the road in Halle.

Surprisingly, though, during Bach’s lifetime he was not recognised as the great composer that he is today until a revival of interest in his music was led in the first half of the 19th century by the young Mendelssohn conducting St Matthew Passion at the age of 20 in 1829, the first performance since the composer’s death.

Such was its success this performance started the Bach ball rolling and, thankfully, it hasn’t stopped. And Leipzig plays its part to the full promoting the music of Bach - who lived and worked in the city from 1723 until his death in 1750 as choirmaster of St Thomas’ Church - in the annual summer BachFest which is nothing but brilliant and now under the artistic direction of the English baroque master, John Eliot Gardiner. Although the BachFest was only founded in 2000 it has enjoyed a rapid rise to the top echelon of European music festivals. To find out more visit www. bach-festival-leipzig.de www.1Magazine.co.uk

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Mendelssohn, though, was simply outstanding and a frequent visitor to the British Isles. He was also the first important conductor of the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra while in his mid-Twenties and went on to found the Leipzig Conservatoire in his early-Thirties.

One of the oldest (and most respected) musical bodies in the world the Gewandhaus Orchestra is now under the direction of Latvian-born conductor, Andris Nelsons, who was chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2007 to 2015.

One of Mendelssohn’s greatest triumphs came by way of Birmingham as their Triennial Festival committee commissioned that momentous and inspiring oratorio, Elijah, composed in the spirit of Mendelssohn’s baroque predecessors, Bach and Handel.

The work (his final composition) received its première at Birmingham Town Hall on 26th August 1846, conducted by the composer. It proved to be one of the high points of his illustrious career. He died a year later. Soon afterwards Elijah was heard in Norwich at a Norfolk & Norwich Triennial Festival meeting in St Andrew’s Hall.

In fact, Mendelssohn agreed to write a new oratorio for the 1848 N&N Triennial but death robbed him and Norwich of the commission. There’s a rather touching letter from Mendelssohn to the Festival Committee dated 27/9/1846 in which he says: ‘. . . but if I live and in good health, I’m almost sure that I will have something new by that time.’ He wrote once more in October 1847, just one month before he died. That’s history!

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But that’s history, too! However, I made doubly sure that I visited Mendelssohn’s house at Goldschmidtstraße - now a museum devoted to his life and work and, appropriately, situated just round the corner from the Gewandhaus.

He lived here for the last 12 years of his life. Looking here, there and everywhere, I soon set my eyes on Mendelssohn’s piano.

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Tony Cooper in front of Leipzig’s modern opera-house inaugurated on 8th October 1960 with a performance of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

I just stared at it in wonderment and thought that the creativity that came from this ‘work-desk’ is still alive today being enjoyed by thousands and thousands of concertgoers the world over.

And Mendelssohn’s music salon, I’m glad to say, is still in use today offering a series of morning concerts. Another aspect of Mendelssohn’s life was as a watercolourist and following a three-month family trip to Switzerland in 1822 at the age of 15 it afforded this young creative talent a wonderful opportunity to devote himself to this aspect of his creative life. Overall, he completed more than 40 landscapes executed either in watercolour or ink-over-pencil.

In Mendelssohn’s correspondence it reveals that drawing and painting proved an ideal respite from his compositional duties.

On another trip he made to Switzerland in 1838, he wrote to his good friend, Karl Klingemann, with whom he had travelled to Scotland in 1829: ‘I composed not even a bit of music, but rather drew entire days, until my fingers and eyes ached.’

Mendelssohn also relied heavily on drawing as a creative outlet on occasions when he found musical composition impossible such as during the grief-stricken months following his beloved sister Fanny’s unexpected death in May 1847 when he was 38.

However, Mendelssohn sought refuge from his grief by travelling to Switzerland where he had spent several enjoyable family holidays. On this excursion - which took place in the months preceding his own untimely death in November of the same year as Fanny’s death - Mendelssohn poured his grief into the creation of a series of watercolour landscapes.

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In the Mendelssohn house one can view a small selection of these lovely and inviting pictures including a charming one of Lucerne - one of his favourite Swiss towns - which provided him his last creative spurt. Another composer I’m extremely fond of and one that is also closely associated with Leipzig is Robert Schumann.

The illuminated and far-sighted Leipzig authorities have an annual festival devoted to him, too, and that of his wife Clara. It takes place next year from 19th to 29th September coinciding (as near as possible) with the Schumann’s wedding. They tied the knot on 12th September 1840 at the Gedächtniskirche in Leipzig Schönefeld - www.schumann-verein.de.

Such was Clara’s standing in Leipzig that in 1878 she was honoured at a ceremony in the Gewandhaus to mark her 50th anniversary as a musician. And next year is a special year for Clara - the most famous female musician to be born in Leipzig as she will be honoured by the city of Leipzig to mark the 200th anniversary of her birth.

The daughter of Friedrich Wieck, an ambitious piano teacher, Clara spent the first 25 years of her life in Leipzig and made her concert début at the age of nine in the Gewandhaus. A highly-acclaimed musician she successfully toured the Continent giving concerts in such great European cities as Paris, Vienna, Copenhagen and St Petersburg.

As part of the 200th celebrations visitors can walk in Clara’s footsteps visiting original locations including the Schumann

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Tony Cooper on Leipzig’s railway-station after travelling on a Deutsche Bahn (DB) hi-speed train from Berlin. Nürnberg.

House where she lived for the first four years of her marriage while her compositions will be performed at music venues which have recently been awarded the European Heritage Label.

The extensive programme for the 200th (clara19.leipzig.de) is as diverse as Clara herself, a woman who shaped the 19th century like almost no other. Not only will her compositions take centre stage of the festivities but also her artistic community, too, her marriage to Robert and her unique international concert work.

Additionally, the festival will focus on her acclaimed time as a child prodigy, her personal emancipation as well as the conflict she encountered between work and family.

Next year, too, Oper Leipzig will devote a couple of weekends to Richard Strauss (11th-13th January / 26th-28th April) with performances of Der Rosenkavalier, Electra and Salome followed by a Puccini weekend (16th/17th March) featuring Tosca and Turandot plus there’s a Verdi weekend coming up in May (24th26th) promising exhilarating performances of La traviata, Rigoletto and Nabucco. www.oper-leipzig.de Wherever you turn in Leipzig musical history hits you slap bang in the face and with that thought in mind I must take in on my next visit the city’s famed music trail (Leipziger Notenspur) which links 23 of the most important musical locations in the city along a 5km route. Quite some trek, eh! Music has a beat, I feel it in my feet! www.notenspur-leipzig.de

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Jersey Boys Norwich Theatre Royal June 5th-16th 2018

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he multi-award-winning Jersey Boys, which wowed Norwich audiences in July 2015, will be back in the city for two weeks in June with the remarkable true story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and their rise to stardom from the wrong side of the tracks.

In the UK, the show first opened in London in March 2008 at the Prince Edward Theatre, moving to the Piccadilly Theatre in March 2014. Following nine amazing years in London, it closed in March 2017. The first UK & Ireland Tour of Jersey Boys, which included its memorable visit to Norwich, was a record-breaking success and ran for 18 months, from September 2014 to March 2016.

Taking on the role of Frankie Valli for this second UK tour is Michael Watson who will be displaying those distinct high falsetto vocals. Simon Bailey will be Tommy De Vito and Declan Egan will be Bob Gaudio, while Lewis Griffiths pays a return visit to Norwich as Nick Massi.

Winner of Broadway’s Tony, London’s Olivier and Australia’s Helpmann Awards for Best New Musical, Jersey Boys has scooped up 57 major awards worldwide and has been seen by over 25 million people around the globe.

Packed full of memorable songs, it tells how four New Jersey boys invented their own unique sound and rose to stardom as one of the most successful bands in pop music history, being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and along the way selling 175 million records worldwide – all before they were 30.

Interspersed with tales of the mob, the heartaches and the triumphs, are hit after legendary hit – Beggin’, Sherry, Walk Like A Man, December 1963 (Oh What a Night), Big Girls Don’t Cry, My Eyes Adored You, Let’s Hang On (To What We’ve Got), Bye Bye Baby, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Working My Way Back to You, Fallen Angel, Rag Doll and Who Loves You.

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Michael, Simon, Declan and Lewis have all previously performed their roles in Jersey Boys to great acclaim: Michael and Simon in the West End, Declan in the West End and Australia, and Lewis in the first UK and Ireland tour. Dayle Hodge will return to the production to play Frankie Valli at certain performances.

Trujillo, with scenic design by Klara Zieglerova, costume design

by Jess Goldstein, lighting by Howell Binkley, sound by Steve Canyon Kennedy and projection design by Michael Clark. The orchestrations are by Steve Orich and the music supervision and vocal arrangements by Ron Melrose.

Michael Watson made his West End debut in We Will Rock You and was also in the original London casts of Imagine This, Sister Act and Shrek the Musical. A founder member of theatre supergroup Teatro, Simon Bailey also played Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. His other West End credits include I Can’t Sing: The X Factor Musical and We Will Rock You.

The UK & Ireland Tour of Jersey Boys is produced by Dodger Theatricals and Ambassador Theatre Group with Joseph J Grano, Pelican Group, Latitude Link, Rick Steiner and Howard Panter.

Declan Egan played the role of Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys in his native Australia and has toured the USA in The Book Of Mormon.

Lewis Griffiths played Johnny Castle in the recent tour of Dirty Dancing. He also appeared in the original UK touring productions of Ghost – The Musical and Legally Blonde – The Musical. Dayle Hodge made his West End debut as Chip in the original London cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and has appeared in Les Misérables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Scrooge.

The cast also includes Joel Elferink as Bob Crewe, James Alexander Gibbs as Joey, Mark Heenehan as Gyp DeCarlo, Karl James-Wilson as Norm Waxman, Arnold Mabhena as Barry Belson, Phoebe May Newman as Francine, Olive Robinson as Lorraine, James Winter as Hank Majewski and Tara Young as Mary Delgado. Completing the cast will be Peter Nash, Dan O’Brien, Stephen O’Riain and Amy Thiroff.

Judy Foster, communications officer for Norwich Theatre Royal, said: “We’re very excited that Jersey Boys is working its way back to us for a return visit, offering a chance to re-live a golden era of musical innovation. The show pumps out hit after magical hit – it’s incredible that one band was responsible for so many great songs – and combined with the very strong line-up of actors the producers have unveiled to take on the lead roles, it will a treat for the summer.”

Listing: Jersey Boys, Tuesday 5 - Saturday 16 June 2018. Tickets £8-£50.

Discounts for Friends, Over-60s, Under-18s and Groups.

Audio-described performance on Thursday 7 June at 2.30pm.

Captioned performance on Thursday June 14 at 2.30pm.

For more info or to BOOK ONLINE www.theatreroyalnorwich.co.uk

Jersey Boys is written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio and lyrics by Bob Crewe. The UK & Ireland Tour production is staged by the entire original Broadway creative team, led by director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio

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INTERVIEW Kevin Yates plays ‘Papa Bear’ in upcoming show Shrek

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hen Shrek The Musical returns to the Norwich stage at the end of June, one of the familiar faces in the cast will be local boy Kevin Yates.

For the multi-talented musical theatre actor who hails from King’s Lynn was here in the show’s first UK & Ireland tour three years ago – although theatre-goers might be hard pushed to recognise him in the street as he played multiple characters in a variety of costumes and make-up, from one of the three little pigs and a happy villager to being the puppeteer for Puss in Boots and the head of the dragon.

That hugely successful two-year tour of Shrek was Kevin’s very first professional job straight out of drama school – and it proved a huge learning curve for him, so he is delighted to be returning to the show again and this time with a little more responsibility.

“I can’t wait,” he said. “Shrek was my debut as a musical theatre actor so it is wonderful to come back to the show that taught me so much. You go to drama school and try to learn as much as you can dancing, singing, acting-wise, but it is only when you get your first job that you not only learn how the industry works but also important life lessons, especially when you are touring. To come back to it again is like returning to an old friend.”

When the last tour ended in February 2016, Kevin then went into Rent the Musical. “I had an injury at the end of Shrek so I couldn’t do the last venue – but I had physiotherapy and was doing lots of exercises and then got back into auditions. So I was recovering

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when Rent the Musical came up. It was the 20th anniversary cast and the actual 20th anniversary date was while we were on tour – so I had a really good time during the nine-month tour around the UK.” Between Shrek finishing and Rent starting, Kevin had a six-month break and moved back home to King’s Lynn. “I got back in touch with my roots which was lovely.

I got to see a lot of old school friends. I had a lovely response from everyone and they are all very supportive. I love King’s Lynn and had such a wonderful time growing up there. I was very lucky. It’s a town that celebrates its art.”

Kevin was part of the Kinetic Theatre at Springwood High School in the town and also at the Footlights Dance Centre (now Studio 19). “I didn’t know I was going to become a professional - it was just lovely to have something to go to that wasn’t sport as I wasn’t particularly a sporty young man. I was always more creative and wanting to perform.”

He was first inspired to get up on a stage at the age of five or six when he saw his sister performing in a school play. “I saw her do that and I said that’s what I want to do. I didn’t think I would ever be doing it to earn money, but then as you grow people try to point you in the direction of the next step which was to go to drama school, so I thought OK I’ll try to do that. I’m very glad I was pushed as I’m not highly competitive. My aim is to carry on doing the work and to keep performing.”

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Kevin initially auditioned for two drama schools but wasn’t successful. So he took up a place at Colchester Institute to study musical theatre for a three-year course, but during his second year he was getting such good marks that he decided to audition for drama school again.

“This time I got into Arts Educational Schools London (ArtsEd) and studied there for three years. The first time I auditioned for them it was very clear I wasn’t ready – but this time I was. It was like the path was laid out before me. If you love what you do then it doesn’t feel like work and even though I was dancing for hours a day and was singing all the time and was exhausted, it wasn’t work. It was the life I was living. So I was no stranger to hard work and then I came into Shrek the Musical where I had a role that had so many quick changes, but I was well prepared for it. It just felt kind of normal.”

With the new tour, there have been some changes to his role in Shrek. “Last time I was second understudy for Donkey This time around I am first understudy, so it is a bit more responsibility.

As of yet, I’ve not been on as Donkey, but have now had all of my understudy rehearsals so I am fully certified and ready to go on whenever!”

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And there’s certainly no rest for him as once again Kevin is playing multiple roles. “My ensemble role is Papa Bear, which is my main character. Last time I was one of the pigs and the pigs have the best fun in the show as they have such a playful naughty nature they can get away with anything.

With Papa Bear, he has his wife and child and it is strange to go on stage and feel responsibility for them. There are times when Baby Bear runs off stage and I think ‘Oh god, where are you going now?’. I’ve clearly got a strong paternal instinct. Now I get it – I understand what my mother went through!”

He highly recommends the show for all ages: “It’s fun –filled and uplifting and family friendly. It has something for everyone. You have Lord Farquaad supplying the humour for the parents, you’ve got Donkey entertaining the kids, but then you’ve got the very important message from Shrek and Fiona which is that at the end of the day what you look like is irrelevant.

It is the love you feel for each other that is important. I do think it’s such an important message to teach children. It’s a universal thing.

I think that’s why people love Shrek.”

He is also doing a lot of puppetry work – as the Fiona puppet and the giraffe puppet, and he is back in the head of the Dragon, but this time he is also puppet captain.

“It’s a nice responsibility to have. The dragon is very big. I have to lip sync her movements with the singer’s voice and I feel like I am channelling her.”

No doubt there will be a large contingent from King’s Lynn in the audience again when Shrek returns to Norwich from June 26 to July 8. “I hope everyone can come again,” Kevin said. “My friends and family came last time I did it – it’s so lovely to be able to perform in front of the people who are the reason you are where you are.

When I see my old singing teachers coming to see me, I feel like it’s a performance for them and a big thank you from me because you should never forget where you came from. If it wasn’t for the teachers and everyone who supported me and came to see the shows when I was in school, then I wouldn’t have the confidence I have now. It’s due to that support that I am able to do what I do.”

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SIX New Musical at Norwich Playhouse JULY 11th-15th

Tudor queens become pop princesses in a sassy new musical set for its official Coronation in Norwich.

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ix will premiere in Norwich Playhouse this summer before heading around the country en route to the West End. It is being co-produced by Kenny Wax, the man behind hits like Top Hat and The Play That Goes Wrong, who explains why this new show is poised to be a right Royal success.

Some of the most notorious royalty from Tudor times are set to tell their life-story in the style of Little Mix and Beyoncé as the smart, smooth and sassy musical SIX is set to mix the regal and ritzy in a stylish trip into the past.

It remixes the story of Henry VIII’s six wives into a pop concert setting, making history hip and putting a whole new twist on a turbulent time at the top of British life.

The show is set to premiere officially at Norwich Playhouse on July 11-15 before moving on to Cambridge Arts Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and then London’s West End, so East Anglian audiences will get the first chance to see it.

The man with the vision to transform what started as a student production into the next big musical phenomenon is Kenny Wax. He is no stranger to taking risks having helped make several shows hot tickets and his latest passion is SIX. He recalls that he was first tipped off about it by George Stiles, one half of the famous Stiles and Drewe writing duo who are behind the likes of Half A Sixpence, Betty Blue Eyes and The Wind In The Willows.

Enthused by George, Kenny and his sixteen-year-old daughter drove from London to Cambridge to see the very first version of the show which was presented by the world-famous university’s musical theatre society. “We sat there and watched it and talking to everyone at the end and I was praying my daughter would say she had really enjoyed it as I had loved it. A 50-year-old man and a 16-year- old girl are very different markets but she said she had really enjoyed it. If a show has crossed those two age categories, you feel you have un-wrapped the golden ticket and it is a bit of a Willy Wonka moment. We met the composer and the lyricist that night, and we started talking to them about the potential future of the show and what it could be.”

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After the chat, Kenny decided to give the show his backing and he arranged a very limited run in the Arts Theatre in the heart of London’s West End to showcase it. He assembled a new director, cast and choreographer, and found the magic formula. “We were really thrilled with the results. Sometimes we are professional gamblers. As a professional producer, we really don’t know how a show is going to do and we put that on sale and all four performances were sold out before the first one has been seen.

There was also a lot of gossip and chat about it. People do talk and they loved it.”

Now it is set for some new cast, a new creative team and a rebirth at Norwich Playhouse on July 11-15. Kenny believes audiences are in for a real treat as there is no traditional scenery, the band perform on stage and it is set in a concert-style in a similar way to the likes of Chicago and Five Guys Named Moe. It is so much more than just a concert though, as Kenny explains. “There are definitely several more layers in SIX than just a revue show. You have all the current girl power sisterhood stuff alongside all this really interesting Tudor history.

I have never studied that period of history but I can tell you about each of the queens.

During the show, you learn about these six very different women.

“It is Hamilton-esque in that we are taking these historic characters and presenting them in a modern vernacular so there is no reference to race, colour, shape, size or type. They are just wonderful women and portrayed as we do these days with modern-day casting and it makes it very interesting and very unusual.”

There is a wide range of music in it crossing genres including pop, r ‘n’ b and ballads while also keeping the audience on its toes with twists, turns and different styles. “You never get bored as you never know what is coming. Each queen tells her story and there is the interaction between the queens which starts off being competitive and then becomes quite sisterly,” explained Kenny.

SIX marks the latest creative challenge for Kenny who has made his name as one of Britain’s best-known producers. He always had his heart set on being a theatre producer and after gaining a business studies degree plus a stint at Camp America, he decided to try working in the stage world for 12 months to see how he got

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on. “It was a fabulous year. I was a foot messenger taking packages around the West End for the agency before working on Miss Saigon in the evening and I met all sorts of people.

“Cameron Mackintosh was very generous with me in those first few months I was working on Miss Saigon because he was around the theatre. I gave him a letter and said I want to be a producer.

He could have said ‘I am too busy’ or ‘come and see my assistant’ and instead I spent an hour and a quarter with him one day. I was hoping he would say I have a job for you which would have been the dream. He was cleverer than that but said that wasn’t the thing for you to do. I had never worked on stage management or produced or directed. I knew nothing about it. His advice was that you have to go out there and learn which was brilliant advice because as the next two or three years went on, I got other jobs.”

Kenny went on to work at the New London Theatre gaining experience in every department including the box office, stage crew, operating the follow spot light and even running guided tours around the building.

Then Kenny got a job at the King’s Head Theatre in Islington producing some Sunday night concerts before going to work with the impresario Cameron Mackintosh again, this time on Just So Stories. Kenny said: “You start to work on bigger shows. There are many ups and downs. My first musical got great reviews but only ran for seven weeks and I lost my backers so I couldn’t go back to them again.”

His big break came with a show which wowed audiences in Norwich and around the country when he revived Top Hat with former Strictly and Holby City favourite Tom Chambers and the multi-talented Summer Strallen. “That was really my first big break in terms of getting into the bigger leagues of theatre,” said Kenny.

“Tom had just won Strictly, it ran in the West End successfully for two years and we had two great UK tours, as well as winning quite a few Olivier Awards.”

Fresh from the success of the show, a producer friend contacted Kenny asking him to give a second opinion on a show running at Trafalgar Studios called The Play That Goes Wrong. He recalled: “I thought this was really funny and people were crying with laughter.

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I thought there must be something in this. These people have either been paid to sit here and cry or it is really good.”

He began contacting theatres about a possible tour and six weeks on the road became 20 weeks before expanding even further. “The show is now in its fourth year and booking into its fifth and they have also just come back from Broadway after six months,” said Kenny.

And it is finding that next big hit often created by and starring new talent that appeals to Kenny. “I like to champion new writing which many other producers do but most of mine is centred on entertainment especially with comedy and family entertainment.

They always need something where I can say I enjoyed watching a certain show. It is hard producing and selling and raising money and getting directors and stars. You need to have the passion for the project but then it is just a job and it isn’t worth it if it is just a job,” said Kenny.

And it is that which is enthusing him so much about SIX and he is excited that audiences in Norwich will be among the first to see it. “It is a fabulous show and something very different. Just the opportunity to say that you were there at the beginning is a great opportunity. To be there right at the beginning of something and be an opinion former than a follower is quite something,” said Kenny. “SIX is going to be around for many years to come and when it comes back to Norwich again, I would love for it to be at the Theatre Royal and you won’t be able to get a ticket.”

So this is your chance to be one of the first people to see this sassy and stylish right- royal romp through history in Norwich.

Listing: SIX, Norwich Playhouse, Wednesday 11-Sunday 15 July at 7.30pm, Friday 13 July at 10pm, and Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July at 3pm. Tickets £20-£22.

To book, log on to www.norwichplayhouse.co.uk or 01603 598598.

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Norfolk at War 1939-45 In my new book ‘Norfolk at War 1939-45’, just out in paperback from Pen and Sword, I mention a real incident that occurred in rural Norfolk when the pilot of a German Heinkel bomber ditched his plane in the early hours of the morning and looked for a place to surrender. He walked a little way and saw a pub that was closed up for the night. He banged on the door and woke the landlord who thought it was some troublesome locals. The landlord opened his bedroom window and shouted ‘Go Away!’ The German pilot trudged on some more and finally found somewhere else to surrender. This is a fictional account of this incident. Unfortunately it is not in the book as the book was already in production when I wrote it. Maybe the next edition? Probably.

The Crash Landing Here both men and maidens tended To the harsh and warlike needs, Of men who through the dark hours Flew their man-made steeds.

The sky at night their hunting ground In which they sought their prey, Returning only when the night Gave way to breaking day.

S.F.Ruffle The plane Oberleutnant Otto Weber struggled to control his Heinkel. The end of the aircraft was blasted. He was careering somewhere over the Norfolk coastline. The electrical system was kaput and all communication systems had failed. The rest of the crew – four men – bailed out.

‘Yes, Ya, Thank you. I wish to surrender. Help. Please’. Someone was yelling from outside and then began banging on the pub door.

Jon Bristow sighed, irritated but also a bit amused - some drunken men back from the heavy night’s drinking and continuing the game of ‘I surrender’ that had seemed so very funny to the locals after too many pints. He opened his bedroom window. ‘Go away!’ he yelled.

‘I do not understand – please.’

‘I’ll help you understand you drunken fools’. The landlord took out his gun, stuck it out of the window and fired into the air. It was a valuable bullet that he could he could be prosecuted for wasting but needs sometimes must. ‘Next time I’ll point it downwards.

Edwards, I know it’s you. Now get yer home and sober up!’

Below, in East Runton, the locals amassed– they had come from their beds to witness the dramatic scene of a lone German bomber that was surely about to ditch. What were they doing?

The Eastern Daily Press had run a piece that morning despairing over the local’s need for excitement: ‘It is apparent’, it said, ‘that the Norfolk public cannot resist drama. When there is something to see they all must come out to have a good look despite the danger. It was the same during the Great War – have they learnt nothing?’

The Oberleutnant managed to divert the Heinkel over the ocean and dropped his bombs harmlessly. The plane lurched out of control once more as it turned itself back to the coast, the fire from the tail now spitting along the fuselage towards the cockpit.

‘Just keep it stable’, Weber told himself, ‘just stable….’

He woke up freezing, his lungs painful. His first crazy thought was that, if he had died, he hadn’t gone to hell as it was too damned cold.

The pub Jon Bristow was a realist: as a landlord he knew the consequences of an unexpected arrival of beer. In this particular corner of Norfolk there had been none for two weeks: the authorities had increased the bacon and butter ration slightly as a nod towards the hard slog that was farm work in the winter but the men craved their mild and bitter. Now news of a fresh delivery to his little pub in the middle of nowhere had leaked out in a flash and there was probably very little left at the end of one night. He was exhausted – he would check the situation tomorrow after a champion night’s sleep. He turned out the single light in the bar, blew out the candles and went upstairs.

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Mike snorted as he entered the kitchen. ‘I expected the army, not the bleedin’ Cripples’ Brigade and some schoolkids!’

‘I am fully authorised to take this prisoner, Michael, and you can watch your language’, said Captain Burns. ‘Get him up, men’.

‘Be kind to him, he’s almost dead’, said Myrtle.

‘The day I am kind to a Kraut I’ll eat a brussel sprout’, said Burns.

Anything deemed Germanic was ridiculed in these parts. ‘And I’ll buy a Dachshund’.

Postscript Many German prisoners in Norfolk were subsequently sent to a holding centre on the Isle of Man. Those who stayed were put to work and saw out the war in the county and this included Oberleutnant Otto Weber. After the war he returned to Germany where he married and had a daughter who he named Greta Myrtle Weber. He ran a tobacconist shop and died in 1982, aged 67.

There is no doubt that Oberleutnant Otto Weber could have dropped his bombs over the Runton coastline causing hundreds of deaths but he chose not to. Another similar incident occurred during the Baedeker Blitz of Norwich when a Messerschmitt failed to strafe a defenceless street of Norwich people.

Otto Weber waited for what seemed a long time looking up at the dark shape of the little building captured in this snowy landscape.

Then slowly he stated to slope off.

He awoke burning with fever on a rough track in front of a small terrace of workmen’s houses. It was just light and a woman was noisily clanking – she had a bucket with her – around the side of the path. He yelled at her but his vocal chords were not working.

He sprang up raising his hands in the air as a sign of surrender.

Myrtle, for that was her name, screamed then fainted hurling her bucket onto the ground.

He was thawing now, lying down on something soft. He heard a man’s voice: ‘We will need to send Billy to inform the authorities.

He won’t be a problem – the poor sod is almost dead with cold’.

Then he heard a woman saying, ‘My name’s Myrtle. You’re safe now. I’ve got an egg and a few peas for you, darlin’ and some hot tea. Then we’ll get yer cleaned up’.

The capture Captain Burns of the Home Guard arrived a short while later accompanied by three armed men and four Boy Scouts who were in a state of high excitement. Myrtle called to her husband: ‘Gaberdine brigade’s here, Mike, and some of the boys’.

The men were kitted out in complete khaki uniforms apart from two who wore old blue gaberdines over their smart kit. In this part of Norfolk, the Home Guard was not to be universally issued with coats until well into 1943. Two of the men carried First World War rifles sent over from the United States.

The Scouts, by contrast, looked very dapper. Churchill regarded them as essential as they could dart hither and thither with limitless energy and they had already charted the optimum routes to take in the event of invasion. As a ‘thank-you’ their uniforms had been given priority.

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EACH Ride for Life is back! Cycle the East Anglian countryside for children’s hospices

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ast Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) is encouraging cyclists to get back in the saddle for an epic 200-plus mile ride across the region.

The charity’s Ride for Life returns on Friday, 20 July. Cyclists will start and finish at the home of headline sponsor Johnston Logistics UK, in Snetterton, visiting EACH’s three hospices – The Treehouse in Ipswich, Milton just north of Cambridge and Quidenham in the Norfolk countryside – in between. The journey takes three days.

Greg Tucker, from Harston, was among cyclists who took part in last year’s challenge. He says: “It was a great three days of effort, excitement and enjoyment. We had a great time together doing some good for other people. It was certainly a highlight of my year!”

Tim Grimes, from Hethersett, also took part. “A very enjoyable weekend was had by all,” he says. “It was a very well organised event – the best I’ve been to so far.”

The three-day challenge costs £150 and each participant must raise a minimum £400 sponsorship. That package includes dinners, beds and breakfasts at city locations and luggage transfers.

Cyclists unavailable for the entire event can choose to do just one leg of the route, covering around 65 to 70 miles. The cost is £50 and minimum sponsorship of £150 is required.

Everyone taking part will have access to first aid assistance if needed, a back-up vehicle, kit list and training information, mechanical help, fundraising support and more.

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The route has been designed to weave through scenic countryside, visiting some of the most beautiful villages and towns in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Emma Benstead, EACH Events Fundraiser, says: “We’re delighted to be bringing back our Ride for Life. As Greg and Tim said, it’s a really fantastic way to meet people, explore the East Anglian countryside and enjoy yourself, all whilst raising money for a vital good cause.

“There’s no competitive aspect to this and people can enter individually or as groups. Spaces are limited, though, so please get in touch now to find out more and secure your place.”

Prices are as follows: One-day registration - £50 plus minimum sponsorship of £150 Three-day registration - £150 plus minimum sponsorship of £400 Three-day registration for groups of four or more people - £125 per person plus minimum sponsorship of £400 per person EACH cares for children and young people with life-threatening conditions across East Anglia and supports their families. For both those accessing care and those who have been bereaved, EACH is a lifeline at an unimaginably difficult time. It costs the charity almost £6 million a year to deliver its service and all funds raised through Ride for Life will help.

To book your place and for more information visit www.each.org. uk/rideforlife or contact Emma on 01953 666770.

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Market Town News Breckland Council joins traders in fight back for small businesses, as one of county’s oldest market towns goes digital in district-wide Market Town revival

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ocal independent shops in one of Norfolk’s oldest market towns will celebrate a move into the digital age at a launch event this week. With the help of Breckland Council, local shops are fighting back against multi-national chains and online giants with an innovative new scheme that brings local shops together in one place.

The scheme will be the first of its kind in Norfolk and will create a ‘digital highstreet’ for each of its Breckland’s market towns – Swaffham, Dereham, Watton, Attleborough and Thetford – enabling shoppers to browse and buy from local independent stores via a single website - www. shopappy.com. This will give independent shops a 24-hour web presence and enable shoppers to ‘click and collect’ their purchases from in store or out-ofhours collection points.

To celebrate the Breckland launch, the council is joining forces with local independent shops to give away free ‘Swaffham Sizzler’ hotdogs at Swaffham Marketplace on Friday 13 April (11am-1pm) and the event will include music, dancing emojis, a free prize draw and vouchers to encourage people to take advantage of the new service as well as stalls to celebrate local shopping.

The free taste of the local Swaffham Sizzler sausages will mean one of the most traditional products for the area will go digital.

The Swaffham Sizzlers are based on a closely-guarded 100-yearold family recipe and are made by local butcher, Impsons. The rolls at the event will be provided by the town’s Wellbread Bakers bakery, while delicious coffees will be provided by Swaffham’s Market Cross Cafe Bar. Each of the businesses have been quick to sign up to join the shop-local online initiative.

Alex Long of Impson Traditional Butchers, said: “The Swaffham Sizzler may be from a 100-year-old recipe, but it’s time to bring it into the 21st century. Being able to sell it online for the first time really gives us the chance to expand and enhance our business at a time when we and other independent retailers are fighting to keep our businesses alive.” www.1Magazine.co.uk

Breckland Council is funding the project for three years as part of its ongoing Market Town Initiative, which aims to ensure the district’s towns remain vibrant and sustainable in the long-term.

Cllr William Nunn, Breckland Council’s Leader, said: “This is a fantastic initiative which will be a game-changer for our local independent shops. The council has committed to subsidise the first 200 independent businesses that sign up to the project and we’ve had a wide range join already, from butchers and bakeries to cafes, craft stores and clothes shops – and many more too.

“This is about so much more than a new website though; this is about encouraging a culture of supporting our independent shops and pulling together to protect our high streets. I hope lots of people will come along to help us celebrate the launch and find out more about how they can show their support for the independent shops in Attleborough, Thetford, Dereham, Swaffham and Watton.”

ShopAppy was launched in November 2016 by Yorkshire-based former University lecturer Dr Jackie Mulligan in her hometown of Saltaire and has quickly expanded to cover 11 more towns in Yorkshire. Breckland’s towns are the first outside of Yorkshire to join the shop local movement that seeks to bring a local alternative for people wanting online convenience but still preferring to spend their money locally.

Dr Jackie Mulligan of ShopAppy.com said: “This first of our national launches shows how easy it is to get a scheme going.

In less than two months, we have almost 100 shops and market stalls now joining an amazing shop window for Breckland towns.

This is a customer-driven initiative to keep our High Streets and town centres thriving, councils, trade organisations, BIDs and retailers need to work together to help encourage more local custom – the ability to easily go digital is a big step in the right direction to inspire more people to shop locally. Breckland is helping visitors and residents get convenience with a local conscience.”

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Crab and Lobster Festival 2018 The 2018 Crab and Lobster Festival will be held from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th May.

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he weekend’s entertainment starts on Friday 18th May, with the Crab and Lobster Festival Grand Opening Concert at Cromer Pavilion Theatre, with laughter and fun from Olly Day and Nigel ‘Boy’ Syer, music from the Sheringham Shantymen and the Old Wild Rovers and dancing from Marlene’s School of Dance. Tickets are £10.00 each and can be purchased from the Pier Box Office on 01263 512495 or online at www.cromerpier.co.uk.

19th May at North Lodge Park. More details of this can be found at www.northlodgepark.org.uk.

The Festival fun continues on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th May, with a whole weekend of Crab and Lobster events, including heritage demonstrations, live music, pirates, Razz the Clown, Rollo with Punch and Judy, shopping stalls, a cookery theatre, featuring a variety of exciting local chefs and a selection of street food vendors.

For more information about the Crab and Lobster Festival, please visit the website at www.crabandlobsterfestival.co.uk or find us on Facebook and Twitter.

After the Crab and Lobster Festival weekend, join us again on Sunday 26th August at Cromer Pier, for the Grand Charity Auction of the lighthouses from the Art Trail and the World Pier Crabbing Championships, where we will see who is crowned champion for 2018!

On Saturday night, join us on Evington Lawns, for an evening of live music, and entertainment, with a bar, barbecue and street food.

Other Crab and Lobster events, include the amazing Lighthouse Art Trail, which officially starts on Saturday 5th May. New for this year, whilst visiting the lighthouses, collect the letters and have fun with a game of “Crabble”, with junior and adult versions available.

The Crab Sandwich Competition will take place again in 2018 and another new event will be a Gardening Festival, held on Saturday

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Diss Museum Deadly Secrets of Diss Mere - Basil Abbott of Diss Museum recalls a report to which the museum contributed

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t may be a beauty spot but Diss Mere has been seriously contaminated for 1,000 years; and it could be caused by traditional industries. This was the conclusion of Dr. Handong Yang of the University of London, who compared the case with that of Minamata Bay in Japan and the Amazon, which led to many deaths.

The culprit was mercury, reaching a peak of contamination in the 19th century. A previous study had shown that sediments from the mid 1800s taken from Diss Mere were contaminated to an extraordinary level – significantly higher than in modern lake sediments across London.

Although local hemp cultivation and the traditional weaving industry were abandoned a hundred years ago, this contamination still exists in the catchment and affects the lake.

The main industry in the Diss area was wool and linen from the 1100s onwards; and hemp growing from the 15th to the 17th centuries.Pesticides may have been used to prevent insect damage in the weaving industry. The mercury contamination may reflect an increase in the scale of processing from household to a more

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industrial level. The manufacture of hemp cloth becamethe principal industry in the 18th century and lasted until the mid19th century, increasing mercury contamination in the sediments even further. The local weaving industry was large, with three Diss factories employing over 200 people before 1800.

In 1773 Norfolk produced an eighth ofthe total fibre in England mainly by growing hemp, with Diss as one of the outstanding producers. In the early 19th century, the weaving industry and wool trade declined in the region.

The period of maximum contamination around the 1850s may derive from the dumping in the Mere of stored materials such as pesticides, fibre treating reagents and dyeing materials due to this decline. “Local people have been exposed to aheavily contaminated environment and their health may have been affected during the period of peak contamination,�said the report.

The catchment soils still contain a high level of mercury and this has affected the lake environment.

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Sound Advice Hearing Centre All about Tinnitus

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hat is tinnitus? A.The actual word ‘tinnitus’ comes from the Latin word ‘tinnire’ to ‘ring’ and it is the perception of sound in the absence of any corresponding external sound. It can be heard in one ear, both ears, or in the head itself. In other words the sound, whilst very real to the person experiencing it, is not audible to others. The auditory system begins in the ear, where sound is converted to neural impulses. These impulses travel through several processing stations before arriving at the final destination of auditory sensory processing - the auditory cortex. In people with tinnitus, the auditory cortex is hyper-responsive to sound, especially sounds like their tinnitus sensation.

Tinnitus importantly is not a disease or an illness. It is a symptom that is generated within an individual’s auditory pathway. It has often been thought that tinnitus occurs as a result of disease of the ears, but this is not necessarily the case.

It’s precise cause is still not fully understood. There is a common myth that nothing can be done about tinnitus, and that you should ‘see how it goes’ or ‘learn to live with it’. This is not particularly helpful for the individual as there are many therapies or aids that can help manage the condition.

Q. What does it sound like?

A. Tinnitus can take a variety of forms including ringing, buzzing, hissing, roaring, whistling and for some, it can even sound like music or singing (although this is often referred to as musical hallucination, or auditory imagery rather than tinnitus). The perceived ‘noise’ may be low, medium or high-pitched. It can be a single noise or multiple noises and can be a continuous sound or it may just come and go.

Another form of tinnitus is called pulsatile tinnitus, where the sound may beat in time with your heart. For many tinnitus is little more than an annoyance, and only noticed in very quiet situations such as nighttime when trying to sleep. For others though, it can be quite intrusive and can affect them in all aspects of their life.

Q. How common is tinnitus?

A. Tinnitus is a common condition it can happen at any age, but it is more common in people over the age of 65. It can develop gradually or can be very sudden, and likewise it can be continuous or just come and go.

It is estimated that between 10 and 15% of the UK population have the condition. That’s more than six million people. Many people will experience temporary tinnitus after exposure to loud noise, such as a pop concert but this normally fades away.

However repeated exposure to loud sounds can cause damage to the sensitive inner ear, and this can lead to more permanent tinnitus.

Q. Causes of tinnitus?

A. Tinnitus itself is not a disease or illness. It is a symptom of a variety of otologic pathologies (see table 1). There are many possible causes or triggers. Some of the most common are –

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• Hearing Loss, • Noise Exposure, • Stress, • Head or neck trauma, • Medication side effects, • Outer and middle ear pathologies such as middle ear blockage, impacted wax, • Temporomandibular joint dysfunction, • Meniere’s disease and other inner ear pathologies.

Many lifestyle choices can also aggravate tinnitus; these can include caffeinated foods and beverages, excessive use of salt, alcohol, nicotine, and high cholesterol. However, this is not definitive, and many people may not have experienced any of the above but still experience tinnitus. For about 90% of tinnitus sufferer’s habituation will occur naturally.

Q. How is tinnitus related to stress and the brain?

A. Activation of the limbic system can greatly contribute to increased stress and tinnitus related anxiety. The limbic system is the part of the brain that controls our emotions e.g. fear, anger, happiness, but it also is involved in deciding the value of our thoughts, perceptions and behaviours.

The areas within the limbic system that are most related to tinnitus are the hippocampus which stores and retrieves memories and the amygdala which determines the emotional significance of the event and the need for a release of neurotransmitters (for example, fight or flight).

The limbic system greatly contributes to the increase in stress and anxiety related to tinnitus.

So for instance when a phantom sound is heard there is a release of hormones in to the bloodstream, which increase the heart rate, tenses muscles and prepares the body for action. This is known as the stress response, and is completely normal. As soon as the threat passes the body returns to normal. With tinnitus however, the sound is considered the threat, and therefore the body does not recover and a chronic stress condition can occur. This is known as the vicious circle of tinnitus.

The more you think about the tinnitus, the more anxious you become, and the more anxious you become, the more intrusive the tinnitus!

In people with tinnitus, the limbic system seems to be different, possibly a slightly smaller number of brain cells. Theory suggests that this part of the limbic system works like a noise- cancellation system. When this system doesn’t work well, people are not able to suppress unimportant thoughts, behaviours, and perceptions— including phantom perceptions like tinnitus.

Q. What treatment is there for tinnitus?

A.There is currently no cure for tinnitus, despite increasing public awareness; tinnitus is still a little understood disorder.

The solution for the majority of people is to work towards breaking this ‘vicious circle’ within the limbic system to significantly reduce the effect with tinnitus. This process known as habituation naturally occurs for many people (the noises diminish over time as

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the brain loses interest and stops concentrating on the signal). For others a more structured individual plan is necessary to achieve this effect.

There is a high correlation between tinnitus and hearing loss.

When a hearing loss is present with tinnitus, then hearing aids have been proven to be one of the most effective methods of reducing tinnitus perception. The brain has to learn to hear properly again with hearing aids, and will initially focus on all the ‘new’ sounds building up a new auditory memory.

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As the brain reclassifies these sounds, it will determine their relative importance and habituation will take place. For hearing aids to help it is crucial that they are used all the time as infrequent use will create insufficient auditory memory, resulting in poor benefit and redundant hearing aids.

Other useful tips for people suffering from tinnitus are: • Not to worry about it, • Changing emotions related to your tinnitus, trying to filter out the tinnitus signal from the conscious mind, • Keeping your mind occupied, but not to overdo things, • Use soothing music or environmental sounds quietly in the background

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t’s fuel for the mind, fuel for the body, and fuel for living and laughing. That’s why, for over 25 years, Wiltshire Farm Foods has been delivering delicious food throughout the UK for our thousands of customers to enjoy whenever they like.

However, like a comfy sitting room or homely kitchen, every now and then it’s nice to have a spruce up; so, this year we’re giving Wiltshire Farm Foods a fresh new look.

If our food doesn’t hit the spot, we’ll replace it for free with our satisfaction guarantee, because good food can put a spring in your step and a smile on your face.

So, if you’d like to choose from our selection of over 300 tasty dishes, call 01362 699049 for a free copy of our new brochure.

You’ll spot some exciting new changes. We have a smart new uniform and van livery for our drivers, proudly displaying our heritage.

There are 75 new and improved delicious meals ready to order from our brochure and website. Bright new labels, clearer and easier to read but still free from cardboard sleeves and unnecessary waste; and we’ve launched new television adverts, featuring our very own drivers, some of which you may recognise.

Rest assured, while we’re very pleased with our new look, we would never dream of changing the things you hold so dear.

That means you can continue to look forward to the same dedicated local team and the same strong values you have come to expect from Wiltshire Farm Foods.

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With our delicious frozen meals and desserts, prepared by award-winning chefs and delivered free by your local team, you’ve more time to enjoy doing the things you love.

For your free brochure visit wiltshirefarmfoods.com or call

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Trying them out Give your self plenty of time and wear loose clothing, this helps you turn and get in and out of beds in store. Our Mattress Specialists will point you in the right direction. Try the advised mattresses for as long as possible to get a good ‘feel’ for them.

or most of us a third of our life is spent asleep, meaning the wear on our mattress over time is considerable, yet a staggering 25% of people wouldn’t consider changing their mattress – even after more than 10 years. It is hardly surprising then that 58% of the population complain of waking feeling stiff and achy.

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• Would it be embarrassing if the neighbours saw it without the covers?

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• Did you have your best recent nights sleep in a bed other than yours?

• Are your waking up more frequently un-refreshed and aching?

• Do you and your partner roll towards each other unintentionally?

• Are you too close to your partner to sleep comfortably?

• Is it sagging?

• Does it feel lumpy in the night?

If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then it your bed has FAILED its MOT and a trip to Sound Sleep for some new bed or mattress advice is essential.

The key with mattress buying is to try out as wide a variety of options as possible to find the most suitable mattress for you (and your partner).

Given the amount of time you spend in bed, it is important to spend a reasonable amount of time in store trying out new ones, especially if you have been experiencing pains that could come from your existing mattress. It this instance, it may be worth having a chat with your chiropractor for some advice on what they advise is suitable for your back.

At Sound Sleep, we stock a variety of brands and different types of mattresses, for example pocket sprung, memory foam, latex and so on. Each manufacturer has different mattresses that offer different levels of support and comfort.

When mattress shopping, it is essential to ask for help. Our Sound Sleep Dream Team are highly trained mattress specialists and are on hand to advise you, not to high pressure you in to buying something that may not be suitable. Following are just a few quick tips to consider when bed shopping.

How do I know which one is right for me?

A mattress that is supportive and comfortable is important, but remember, your requirement for support will differ depending on your weight and build. The best bed for your back is not always a firm one. You need a bed that will provide the right support and comfort for you. When laying on your side, ideally your spine should be parallel to the mattress and your spine should not sag down or bow up. Also remember as we age, our support requirements change. A very firm mattress when you were 35 may not be so suitable when you’re 45, comfort is important too!

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If you sleep together, shop together Always shop with your partner, the bed must be suitable for both of you. As it is inevitable one of you may have to compromise!

Take our Bed MOT (Mattress Obsolescence Test) to find out if you need a new bed.

Size matters It is scientifically proven that couples sleep better in a bigger bed. The more space you have the freer you can move without disturbing your partner. This is also a good idea if one or both of you get hot in bed.

If you are thinking about just a new mattress, before coming to visit us in store, check what kind of base you have and it’s condition, as some bases may be unsuitable for a new mattress.

We will of course be on hand to give you the correct advice and information.

All of our divans and mattresses are sourced from National Bed Federation members, so what you are buying is exactly what it says it is, it’s made from new and clean materials and it meets the strict British Standard fire regulations. More information can be found at www.bedfed.org.uk Now that you have chosen a new bed and mattress, don’t forget that every mattress needs protection. At Sound Sleep, we want your new mattress to give you years of comfortable nights, to do this your mattress needs to be protected from us!

The average adult perspires approximately half a pint per night and sheds in the region of 20,000,000 skin cells a day, which without the correct protection can all go into your mattress.

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This severely decreases the life of your mattress and can also cause health concerns, especially with asthma and allergy sufferers. Our Dream Team will talk you through all the options to help prolong the life of your mattress.

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