Reviewing the Situation with Lena Davis
Lena has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create the Caring & Sharing Trust to bring music,...
Shrek the Musical has arrived from Far Far Away and is at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from 14th March to 25th March, Karin Johnstone has sampled the fun...
It’s no surprise that a musical version of the Dreamworks film Shrek...
Tre Ventour reviews The Post which will be on small screens soon...
The Post follows Spotlight as another great, modern journalism film. Steven Spielberg’s latest venture discusses freedom, democracy, government lies and whistleblowing, a timely film if there ever was...
Review - Beckworth Emporium Restaurant, Glebe Road, Mears Ashby, NN6 0DL.
That chilly, dark section of the year - post-Christmas, pre-spring- is not Penda’s favourite time.  But the winter blues were wafted away in the company of good friends at Beckworth...
Review - The Red Lion at Brafield, 6 Bridle Path, Brafield- on-the-Green, NN7 1BP
After being recommended a visit to The Red Lion at Brafield by a family of vegetarians, it seemed somehow wrong to start by ordering pork scratchings....
Tre Ventour reviews Love from a Stranger at the Royal Theatre Northampton...
After Cecily Harrington (Helen Bradbury) breaks her engagement to Michael Lawrence (Justin Avoth) following meeting Bruce Lovell (Sam Frenchum), a stranger who enquires about renting her apartment, things...
Peter Dennis reflects on Eddie and the Hot Rods / The Yellow Dog Blues Band at Northampton Roadmender...
For the uninitiated tonight's support band, The Yellow Dog Blues Band, are a rather tasty six-piece who play a high energy rhythm and blues....
Tre Ventour's review of the RSC's touring Hamlet at Royal & Derngate...
Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Simon Godwin, this is Hamlet, a tale of tragedy and revenge set in Denmark. Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius (Clarence Smith), with Queen...
Tre Ventour saw Cilla Black the Musical at Royal and Derngate, Northampton...
Liverpool in the 1960s. Everyone had a story about Cilla Black. You couldn’t walk into any club without hearing a story or two. Mention Liverpool and music in...
The Playhouse Theatre has tackled one of Tre Ventour's favourite films with their stage production of Brief Encounter...
One evening, after seeing A Passage to India at Royal & Derngate last year, fellow reviewer Kevin Evans (Bill in Brief Encounter)...
