Jon Brittain’s adaptation of the popular children’s book by author David Walliams of Billionaire Boy premiered on November 28th 2018 in the Nuffield Southampton Theatres City. The cast and production team pictured above had the pleasure of David Walliams company on November 28th when he came to watch them perform…

Photographs courtesy of @showstoppers On a cold and wet night in November, The Point in Eastleigh was the perfect place to be with Show Stopper the Improvised Musical performing there. The company has quite a large cast of performers and musicians who work within the company and every performance by…

Photographs courtesy of Craig Robertson. Cheriton Players present Fallen Angels by Noel Coward. The scene is set in the style of the playwright from the beginning as we are taken through a spoken historical timeline of 1925 which is when this play had first been performed. Setting the scene of…

Photographs courtesy of Oleg Katchinsky. Hunch Theatre companies new play A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov has been adapted by Oliver Bennett and Vladimir Shcherban. Last night saw the opening performance at the Arcola Theatre in Studio 2, on the 21st November 2018. Two resting soldiers Pechorin and…

Honour, the play by Joanna Murray-Smith brings into question what does honour really mean after 32 years of marriage when one party decides to abruptly leave. The lead female character shares the same name as the play. An honourable title perhaps to her strength of character. We first meet George…

Hymn of Hate by Matt Kennard Our first screening by Matt Kennard is his debut directed film called Hymn of Hate which is set during World War I in 1916, somewhere in the undamaged countryside of No Mans Land in The Somme. The title was chosen after Kennard had written…

In everyone’s lifetime, there is at least one high profile murder case that evokes public anger, hurt and a new level of disgust in the behaviour of human beings. None more so when the crime is against a child, add to that committed by children too and we are left…

Cast pictured above Maria, Grandmother Tina Grey. Ewa Daughter Kate Spiro. Anna Grandaughter Maria Louis. Photographs above are courtesy of Robert Day. Photograph by Elaine Chapman Behind every family, there lies a history and secrets that they carry with them from generation to generation. The three generations of women in…

Winchester film festival is now into its 8th year. Showing film premieres and award-winning short films from over fifty countries. Tonight Winchester Discovery Centre was the chosen venue for the screenings. The chosen films were all under the theme of lost youth. However, the loss of youth is portrayed differently…

Winchester film festival is now into its 8th year. It boasts a week of film premieres and award-winning short films from over fifty countries. Tonight’s event was held in the Winchester Records Office in Sussex Street, where it has a nice 80 seater custom-built cinema on the top floor. I…