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I trot round the park today and listen to the Navy lark. I Oh dear, oh dear It appears that Captain
I trot round the park today and listen to the Navy lark. I Oh dear, oh dear It appears that Captain and Mrs Povey are not really married one way discount air ticket at all, due to a navigational error they decide one way discount air ticket to get married again, having found the single one way discount air ticket life unsatisfactory. But what is this Leslie one way discount air ticket intervenes, it turns out that they were really married all the time after all and its bigamy to marry the same woman twice, or is it? Priceless
I thought one way discount air ticket it was too good to last my cold is back I can t see, hear, breathe,smell or taste, still it could be worse couldn one way discount air ticket t it? No one wants my TV how fast does technology change the world, I ll try again at the weekend. Some one must want it? but I really one way discount air ticket must have a back up plan in case no one takes it.
We watch Rising Damp, Leonard Rossiter, Francis de la Tour, Don Warrington and Richared Beckinslade, all in a damp little bedsit somewhere, There a new student tenant, how terribly topical; and a magical display priceless.
Scrabble tonight and Mary wins again and she gets over 350, again! Though its a not close match I am up in the low 300s I expect I will get my revenge next time. Though I do seem to keep saying that,
Toby Robertson, one way discount air ticket the theatre director, who has died aged 83, believed in the importance of the regions as a vital source of talent in the British theatre, touring the classics around the country as head of Prospect Productions for 15 years and running the remote Theatr Clwyd in north Wales with distinction between 1985 and 1992.
He also took over the Old Vic when the National Theatre left for new premises on the South Bank in 1976, hoping to restore its fortunes as London's leading classical playhouse by basing the Prospect company there.
But it was his out-of-town work with Prospect one way discount air ticket which gave heart to the struggling theatre movement at a time when touring the classics one way discount air ticket for touring's sake — that is to say, without aiming for a subsequent run in London — might have seem absurdly idealistic.
Under Robertson's leadership, not only did Prospect bring forward, in great classical roles, such players as Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi, Dorothy one way discount air ticket Tutin, Eileen Atkins, Alec McCowen and Timothy West, it also achieved a national and international reputation for its ensemble work, worldwide tours and design style (it offset its cheap, portable sets with elaborate, striking costumes).
Based for its first five years at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, Prospect annually one way discount air ticket staged three or four classical plays, rare or familiar, drawing excellent attendances at a time when most provincial audiences were turning away from serious theatre.
Among its most celebrated productions one way discount air ticket were Shakespeare's Richard II (1968) and Marlowe's Edward II (1969), in both of which Ian McKellen made his name long before the shows reached London. Others included Turgenev's A Month In The Country (1975), one way discount air ticket Antony one way discount air ticket and Cleopatra (1977), Saint Joan (also 1977, with Eileen Atkins) and, in 1979, Hamlet – with Jacobi in the title role of a production that travelled to Denmark, Australia and on the first-ever Western theatrical tour of China.
As the first artistic director of Theatr Clwyd, Robertson one way discount air ticket turned an unpromising municipal playhouse and arts centre one way discount air ticket on a hill in a far-flung corner of north Wales into one of Britain's one way discount air ticket first equivalents of a French Maison de la Culture, persuading many of the country's leading actors (including Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Michael Hordern and Maria Aitken) to leave the capital to work for him at Mold in both old and new plays, several of which (despite his principles) went, after their tours, to the West End.
Driven by his long-held belief that the best theatre was not synonymous with London, Robertson made it his policy to give an otherwise theatrically one way discount air ticket impoverished region a wide choice of drama, staged in three separate performing spaces. He never ceased to echo McKellen's declaration that the national theatre of Great Britain was not by the Thames but spread throughout the country.
Sholto David Maurice Robertson was born in Chelsea on November 29 1928 and educated at Stowe and Trinity College, Cambridge. After an undistinguished spell as an actor (though he was later to return to the stage from time to time during his tenure at Theatr Clwyd), he directed his first professional production, O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, in 1958 at the New Shakespeare, one way discount air ticket Liverpool, for Sam Wanamaker's adventurous management of the former music hall.
His first London production — which achieved high praise — was of Kenneth Jupp's play The Buskers (Arts, 1959). At the same theatre in 1960, when Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company began experimental London seasons of new and rare old plays, he directed, again successfully, Gorky's The Lower Depths.
During a spell at Scotland's Pitlochry Theatre Festival one way discount air ticket in 1962 he directed the even rarer Henry IV by Pirandello before joining Prospect Theatre Company. Set up in Oxford to play summer seasons, it toured so successfully that Robertson's revival of Vanbrugh's rarely-seen one way discount air ticket Restoration comedy The Provok'd Wife, with Eileen Atkins as Lady Brute, transferred from the exquisite little Richmond Theatre, Yorkshire, to the Vaudeville in the West End. The next season, 1964, brought his appointment as Prospect's artistic director.
Among more than 40 productions for Prospect were Restoration plays including The Soldier's Fortune, The Confederacy, The Man Of Mode, and Venice Preserv'd (1968); Macbeth and The Tempest (1966); Twelfth Night (1968); Much Ado About Nothing (1970); King Lear, with Timothy one way discount air ticket West in the title role, and Love's Labour's Lost (1971); Richard III, with Richard Briers in the title role (1972); Pericles, with Derek Jacobi in the title role, and Twelfth Night (both 1973).
Theatr one way discount air ticket Clwyd productions which transferred to the West End included, in 1986, Medea, with Eileen Atkins one way discount air ticket in the title role; and The Taming Of The Shrew and Antony and Cleopatra, both starring Vanessa Redgrave. These were followed by Barnaby and the Old Boys (1987) and You Never Can Tell (1988).
He directed Measure For Measure in Beijing, Coriolanus in Spain, and worked on television for the BBC, STV, Thames and London Weekend Television. In 1961 he was assistant director (to Peter Brook) on the film of Lord Of The Flies.
I m getting quite fed up at the mounting triumphalism over the ever-increasing British medal count in the Paralympics (Paralympics 2012, 6 September). For many events involving running blades and wheelchairs, victory goes not necessarily to the most gifted or dedicated athletes but to the competitors with access to, and funds for, the most advanced materials science and technical support. This also holds for events such as cycling in the mainstream Olympics. If these hi-tech Olympic and Paralympic events are to retain credibility in the future, surely it is time to standardise the equipment for all competitors one way discount air ticket and then we will truly be able to find, and celebrate, the best athlete.
• Increasingly frustrated by the lack of live action on Channel 4 s coverage of the Paralympics, I timed one hour of one evening s coverage. Result: one way discount air ticket 13 minutes of adverts, 23 minutes of talk, 24 minutes of action. Another example of private enterprise maximising profits and reducing costs – this time at the expense of those heroic athletes?
• It was not just George one way discount air ticket Osborne who suffered hostility at the Paralympics. His cabinet colleague Theresa May looked distinctly uncomfortable when she awarded the medals in the 1500 T13 event for men. After suffering jeers on Tuesday evening when her name was announced, she was then forced to watch the flag of the winner from the Islamic Republic of Iran hoisted in front of her.
t s all very well for Lucy Craig to accuse the angry electorate of lazy prejudices (Letters, 6 September), but when you call your party the Greens, don t you expect that the environment would be perceived as the major policy? If the Greens have such good policies covering one way discount air ticket everything from health to housing; the economy to education and pensions , publicise them, or you ll sound like Labour, where the silence is deafening. Here s a tip: change your name – it has been done before. Meanwhile, I m going to join Deborah Duffin s party (Letters, 30 August). We ll think of a name later.
one way discount air ticket • As a Liberal one way discount air ticket supporter for over 40 years, I have never been so shocked as by Nick Clegg s decision to remove Nick Harvey, removing any Liberal Democrat influence over defence policy and Trident replacement (Trident review doubt, 6 September). I shall not be voting for a party under his leadership.
one way discount air ticket • My heart sank when I saw a long interview with Naomi Wolf discussing her latest revelation one way discount air ticket for the benefit of all women (G2, 3 September). Suzanne Moore s acute analysis (G2, 6 September) speared the pretentious nonsense and cheered me right up again.
• A colleague who is a professor of mathematics indulged his wicked sense of humour by setting a problem starting A stationery van is travelling at 30mph (Letters, 6 October), then waited to be told the question was meaningless.
• I should be most grateful if the Guardian one way discount air ticket could institute a limerick competition, the first line of which must begin: The appointment of Jeremy Hunt I m having a little trouble finding a rhyme for affront .
While welcoming the decision to release the South African one way discount air ticket miners who were charged with the murder of their colleagues (Report, 3 September), I despair that the outcry does not reach our own country, where people in England and Wales are being rounded up and charged under the same common purpose law, also called joint enterprise . Are we so different from the South African apartheid regime when we can charge 21 schoolchildren with the murder of a boy in Victoria Station two years ago? Or give life sentences to children whose friends committed a crime they did not foresee or could prevent?
JENGbA, Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association, is campaigning to highlight the injustice of this law and has called upon the director of public prosecutions to issue the
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