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Roleplay from Francesca Moody productions at Summerhall
Roleplay is a disappointing show in the otherwise glittering recent entries in Francesca Moody’s production credits, which include Fleabag and Baby Reindeer. Hannah Reilly plays Danielle who has a podcast—listeners say “hey slut!” when they call in. Her US producers decide that she can make a lot more money by doing outrageous things. So she starts doing those things. This lands her in deep water and affects her personal relationships, including with her mother.
East Infection at Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle
Yoky Yu is a riot. In this curious venue with aircraft-style seating (all very much economy), she creates a controlled anarchy as she facilitates an audience therapy session liberally sprinkled with smut and silliness. Drawing from her work as a therapist, she role-plays generational trauma with audience members, very few of whom are not picked on. Hailing from China, she doesn’t hold back with gags about the surveillance state and child policies.
Oman’s economy needs a steady hand as war drags on
Over the past five years, Oman has quietly emerged as one of the Gulf’s strongest economic turnaround stories. Fiscal discipline, higher energy revenues and structural reforms under Vision 2040 have reshaped the country’s public finances. Government debt has almost halved, from pandemic-era highs of 68 percent to around 35 percent last year.
Equus from Theatre Royal Bath Productions at Menier Chocolate Factory
I had never seen Equus, Peter Shaffer’s early 1970s play about a boy who inexplicably commits acts of violence against horses, until this revival helmed by Lindsay Posner, and despite its occasional strangeness and homo-eroticism, I could not help but be reminded of Adolescence, the Netflix drama that caused so much controversy in 2025. Like that show, the play is dominated by a tug of war between a psychiatrist and a child who has done terrible things (in this case, blind several horses).
Hot Mess from Birmingham Hippodrome in association with Vicky Graham Productions at Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Tired of dating amoebas in the primordial soup, she’s been waiting millions of years for a romantic partner with functioning limbs. He finds her at a vulnerable, even desperate moment and a tentative romance begins. This is Earth and Humanity, personified by Tobias Turley and Danielle Steers in the new romantic comedy musical Hot Mess, a hit at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Revolver from Shared Experience at Pleasance Courtyard
Emily Woof has crafted an intelligent and subtle play about some of the contradictions (from a woman’s perspective) of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Woof adopts three personae: a television researcher working on a show about female fandom; the researcher’s own mother and her dizzily amorous letters to John Lennon; and finally Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM manifesto and attempted killer of Andy Warhol.
Theatre review: Dealer's Choice from Donmar Warehouse at Donmar Warehouse
This revival of Patrick Marber's 1990s comedy drama about a group of men and their compulsive gambling and troubled relationships is so dominated by one performance that the ensemble work gets slightly lost. The final act is a poker game, which is difficult to dramatise effectively, and the emotional impact is dissipated throughout by an almost sitcom tone.
The Lonely Londoners
This charming revival of the adaptation of Trinidad author Sam Selvon's 1956 novel tells the story of a group of Windrush generation immigrants in London as they struggle with finding work and navigating personal relationships. It is a somewhat unorthodox piece and blends physical movement, music and monologues from each character, sometimes addressing characters offstage.
Theatre review: Abigail's Party at Theatre Royal Stratford East
Tamzin Outhwaite dazzles demonically in this pitch-perfect revival of Mike Leigh’s acid comedy of 1970s class envy and aspiration, Abigail’s Party. The production is faithful to the text, sometimes straying slightly close to soundalikes and tics of the seminal TV version immortalised by Alison Steadman ("you know what I mean Ange!") but never overshadowed by it. Outhwaite is somehow more menacing than Steadman.
The Complicated Case of Disney and Their Recent Sequel Obsession
It’s been quite the past few days for Disney, hasn’t it? The Moana 2 trailer finally dropped, Win or Lose got a teaser, Incredibles 3 was confirmed, and a new original Pixar film, Hoppers, was announced. While I was glad to hear about Win or Lose and Hoppers, the news about Incredibles 3 only made me sigh. I probably would’ve had a stronger reaction had this announcement come much sooner, but given Inside Out 2’s success, maybe sequels are a necessary evil for titles like Elio and Hoppers to exist.
Rita Lynn: Life Coach
In Rita Lynn: Life Coach (the drug related pun is real), Louise Marwood gives a performance of electrifying desperation as Imogen Wood, an actress with a cocaine habit who stumbles on a lucrative sideline alter ego as a fake life coach. Marwood plays her partner in addiction demonically, with a Bill Sikes cockney drawl, with lighting to match. She stumbles on a rich household in Hampstead for a job interview, finds a vulnerable potential client and has a fiendish eureka moment.
The Chairs Revisited
A slice of 20th century absurdist theatre is updated for the 21st century in this revival of Ionesco’s two-hander from the 1950s. An elderly couple (similar to Beckett’s grotesques sealed off from the world) who live in a tower surrounded by water make grandiose preparations for imaginary guests. They include dignitaries including the Emperor himself who they hope will save them from mediocrity—and in particular an Orator who will tell their story.
OUTPATIENT at Summerhall
Sunmerhall’s anatomy lecture theatre is the perfect venue for a show about knowing you’re about to die (or maybe not). In Harriet Madeley’s touching and personal show, she plays journalist Olive, a shallower, more narcissistic version of herself. Olive normally writes fluff about reality TV but dreams of the Pulitzer Prize—her route to professional glory is a pitch about people’s experiences of dying. But Olive then gets a terrifying diagnosis and becomes the story.
Lost Girl at Underbelly, George Square
Amy Lever shows promise as a writer and performer in this show about adolescence and racial identity, specifically Jewishness and Arab heritage. Her character, Birdy, is growing up in Manchester—her grandparents are Egyptian Jews—and as she probes into their past, she uncovers secrets about her grandfather’s lost sister, perhaps abducted, perhaps absconded.
Community Notes: Facets of economic development
By Tim Fox, CEO, Charles City Economic Development Corp. Historically the primary purpose of the Charles City Area Development Corporation has been to assist in the creation and retention of high-quality jobs. However, virtually every substantive project or development within a community strengthens or weakens a local economy. And at present in Charles City, I believe much strengthening is transpiring. Sherman Creek housing by the Rottinghaus family. NIACC Career Center. Zoetis expansion.
COMMUNITY NOTES: Charles City’s balance sheet, 2024
By Tim Fox, CEO, Charles City Area Development Corp. As I monopolize this year-end column in looking forward to 2024, I have a public service announcement. THIS JUST IN: The tractor plant has closed. It ain’t coming back. It closed 30 years ago – not just last week, as some seem to feel. I never saw the plant. I regret this. However, it is never good economic policy to be dependent upon a single employer.
It's Headed Straight Towards Us
There is plenty of potential dramatic and comic mileage in the story of two rival actors holed up together in a trailer near an active Icelandic volcano. Sadly, this new collaboration from The Young Ones alumni Nigel Planer and Adrian Edmondson is literal, trite and full of lazy caricature. Rufus Hound as the alcoholic fading star Gary Savage and Samuel West as the pompous Hugh are engaging enough, but the script gives them very little of substance.
Private Lives at Ambassadors Theatre
This comfortable revival of Noël Coward’s Private Lives with Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge is a conventional but very enjoyable exposé of the louche, wealthy and aimless 1920s set. Amanda (Hodge) and Elyot (Havers) are divorced and married to other people; by chance, they find themselves in adjacent rooms on honeymoon in Deauville with their new spouses (Sibyl, a shrill and needy Natalie Walter and supercilious Victor, played by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart).
Strategic Love Play
Miriam Battye's Strategic Love Play (a hit at 2023's Edinburgh Fringe) is a cutting and clever look at the absurdities of dating apps and the awkwardness of navigating a first meeting with a complete stranger who might yet be a potential romantic partner. But it also seems to go beyond 21st century hang-ups and ends up saying something universal about the sexes. Archie Backhouse is "Man"; Letty Thomas "Woman". They meet for a date in a pub. Things quickly become strange.
Community Notes: Anniversary is a time to take note of changes
By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Development Corp. Aug. 3, 2023, marked my 25th year of employment with the Charles City Area Development Corp. I thought it instructive to look back and examine changes in the economic development profession over that span. The primary change is that communities are not, by and large, engaged in “smokestack chasing.” Formerly a municipality would predicate success upon hitting the home run, a transformational project altering the economic scope.
A Strange Loop at Barbican
Michael R Jackson Page 73 Productions, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons Barbican 17 June–9 September 2023 Listing details and ticket info... Share: The world is not crying out for a review of Michael R Jackson's A Strange Loop (about a gay black man writing a musical about being a gay black man writing a musical) written by a straight white man writing about being a straight white man writing about writing a review of A Strange Loop. It’s enough to say I was compromised.
Sweeney Todd or the String of Pearls
George Dibdin Pitt, Jeff Clarke Opera della Luna Wilton's Music Hall 18–29 April 2023 Listing details and ticket info... Share: Opera della Luna emphasise on Wilton’s web site that this is NOT a production of the Sondheim musical. It’s certainly very far from the moral complexity Sondheim brought to the story. The yarn they have spun instead—a Victorian melodrama with incidental music and the occasional aria—is based on a 19th century script by George Dibdin Pitt from the original “penny dreadful”.
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The Lehman Trilogy
Stefano Massini, Ben Power National Theatre and Neal Street Productions Gillian Lynne Theatre 24 January–20 May 2023 Listing details and ticket info... Share: Stefano Massini’s epic saga of the Jewish immigrants who gave their name to the bank that spectacularly failed in 2008 was first performed in the UK in 2018 with Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley playing multiple generations of Lehmans with extraordinary dexterity.
One Woman Show at Ambassadors Theatre
Liz Kingsman Ambassadors Theatre 14 December 2022–21 January 2023 Listing details and ticket info... Share: Liz Kingsman’s One Woman Show has enjoyed a meteoric overnight success. Previously a member of an obscure sketch troupe Massive Dad, the demure Kingsman, an Australian who came to Durham University in England and stayed, has crafted a parody of Fleabag (and her imitators) that has made critics weak at the knees.
An Improbable Musical
Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Improbable Hackney Empire 21–26 October 2022 Listing details and ticket info... Share: First a confession: I am a long-term fan and frequenter of the Comedy Store Players, who delight audiences every Sunday at Leicester Square with their hysterical wit and surreal flights of fancy. Three of their number are in this troupe: Josie Lawrence, Niall Ashdown and director Lee Simpson.
Noises Off at Richmond Theatre
Michael Frayn Theatre Royal Bath Productions Richmond Theatre 4–15 October 2022 Listing details and ticket info... Share: Michael Frayn's love letter to the camaraderie and chaos of the theatre charms in this revival of a much loved farce. Lindsay Posner returns to the helm having directed the Old Vic production of 2011. We are plunged into a desperate rehearsal for Nothing On, Frayn's parody of creaky sex comedies, complete with bedroom doors banging and daft double-entendres.
Clutch at Bush Theatre
Will Jackson Bush Theatre Bush Theatre 24 September–8 October 2022 Listing details and ticket info... Share: Will Jackson’s new Bush Theatre commission, Clutch, is pleasant enough. It's a good-natured two-hander with an odd couple premise, undone by uneven writing and structural flaws. Geoffrey Aymer’s Max is an avuncular driving instructor with a booming voice, all bonhomie, dad jokes and some personal troubles.
Tell Me Something Good: Airport therapy dog
by: Tim Fox Posted: Feb 4, 2022 / 05:30 PM EST / Updated: Feb 4, 2022 / 05:31 PM EST SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Between security measures, Covid protocols, and just trying to stay on time, travel today can get a little hairy. Sometimes, you just need a little love. That’s where Koa comes in. Koa is a therapy dog. She’s part of the PET Program. P-E-T, for Pets Easing Travelers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport.
Tell Me Something Good: Challenge ’22, an interactive Downtown Syracuse scavenger hunt
by: Tim Fox Posted: Jan 28, 2022 / 05:35 PM EST / Updated: Jan 28, 2022 / 05:35 PM EST SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Like a giant jigsaw puzzle, the pieces of a revitalized downtown Syracuse are coming together. You can see it everywhere. “If you’re not coming to downtown as often, things are going to be a lot different than even a year ago when you were here,” says Merike Treier, the executive director of the Downtown Committee.
Letter to the Editor: Own a piece of Floyd County history
Posted on Sep 7, 2021 By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corp. The Floyd County Historical Museum has four White Farm/New Idea signs. They are 4½ feet tall, 17 feet long and 4 inches thick. They have no room to display them so the museum is giving them away. They are outside at the tractor addition driveway off Cedar Street should you wish to inspect. Thanks to Chris Garden for bringing up this matter. Chris also volunteered to haul them for you, as he is a grand person.
Tell me something good, Jaleel Campbell
by: Tim Fox Posted: May 14, 2021 / 02:19 PM EDT / Updated: May 14, 2021 / 02:19 PM EDT Jaleel Campbell is a name you should file away for future reference. It’s just hard to decide what category to file it under. He describes himself as multidimensional. “So, I’m an illustrator. I am a producer. I am a doll maker. I am a videographer. I do a little bit of everything.” “And you like it that way?” he was asked.
Tell Me Something Good: The ring finder
by: Tim Fox Posted: May 7, 2021 / 02:18 PM EDT / Updated: May 7, 2021 / 02:18 PM EDT (WSYR-TV) — As he made his way through a snowy November day, Connell Raate thought back on his meeting with a man desperate for some help. “When he was shoveling off his deck, he lost his wedding ring. Flew right off.” Connell has been finding lost rings and digging up loose change around Central New York for more than 20 years, the last five or so as a member of an organization with an international reach.
Coronavirus: India's tally reaches 10.7 million with 11K+ new cases
India on Wednesday reported over 11,000 fresh coronavirus infections, pushing the nationwide tally past 10.7 million cases. The recovery rate stood at 96.9%. Meanwhile, at least 130 more patients died in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,53,905. Kerala, which is among the worst-hit Indian states, continued to report a high daily positivity rate in coronavirus infections. Here are more updates.
#ComicBytes: Meet DC's latest Batman, Tim Fox
DC's ongoing Future State event is based on a futuristic time where all the popular characters are either dead or have relinquished their previous titles. But what happens to Batman? While the apparently dead Bruce Wayne starts operating secretly as the Dark Detective, his iconic cowl is taken up by the relatively unknown Tim Fox. So, who is this new Dark Knight?
Community Notes: Regional Educational Center Deliberation
Posted on Dec 28, 2020 By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corp. Manufacturers in and about Charles City first broached the necessity of a local career academy in 2005. In the intervening 15 years we have employed a number of workforce development initiatives — meeting with less than robust success. This is why news that a Regional Education Center may be constructed within the Charles City Community School District is so encouraging.
Learning Through The Seasons
activities to prepare Young Children for Success in School and a Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on November 25, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean hetrick, Cheryl anderegg, tim Fox, and esther Macalady Thanksgiving Day is Still Thanksgiving No matter how we celebrate Thanksgiving Day this year, teaching children to give thanks and be grateful is a critical part of developing a good, kind, and loving person.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on October 14, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Developing Mathematicians is Fun When children plan, build, and rebuild structures they develop math skills and learn to focus on solving problems needed all their lives. They learn to think like engineers.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 30, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Learning from Home and School Now Whether children are learning from home, school, or a combination about now is a good time to evaluate. How is it going? How is the home study space working?
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 09, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Tiny Happy People Learn Language We often hear that babies should come with a manual to help guide amazing early development. The BBC’s new program called Tiny Happy People found at bbc.com is very close to a baby brain development manual for the family.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on September 02, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Quiet Time Talks and Reassurance What are some quiet easily managed activities you can set up especially during this difficult time? You can talk together while doing some reading or art for starters. Sit together, do an activity, and model calmness. Listen to what they have to say.
Commentary: Flu Shot More Important this Year than Ever
There are many theories and opinions floating around about influenza vaccination, however, the bottom line is that it works. The CDC estimates that vaccination is anywhere from 40-60% effective at reducing the risk of getting influenza in any given year. In 2018-2019, vaccination prevented around 4.4 million influenza-associated medical visits, 58,000 admissions, and 3,500 deaths. This is significant, particularly when one considers that only about 50% of the population received the vaccine.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on August 19, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Working Together Around the House Young children enjoy being included in many household chores and learn important skills at the same time. In addition, young children begin to understand that everyone helps in a family.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on August 12, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady “Kuplink! Kuplank! Kuplunk!” It’s the sound of late summer berry picking in Robert McCloskey’s “Blueberries for Sal” where Sal and her mother meet Little Bear and her mother bear on the same blueberry hill. The moms mistake each other’s children, but all ends well.
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on July 29, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Developing Your Tiny Happy People “A chatty child is a happy child” – Tiny Happy People Although the United States has many useful sites for parents raising children age zero to five, the British might have one upped us with the new site supported by the BBC called “Tiny Happy People.”...
Learning Through The Seasons
Activities to Prepare Young Children for Success in School and A Lifetime of Learning By munisingnews@gmail.com | on July 15, 2020 by: Iris Katers, Jean Hetrick, Cheryl Anderegg, Tim Fox, and Esther Macalady Creative Ideas for Grandkids’ Visits Grandchildren: My favorite hello and my hardest goodbye. While we try to teach our grandchildren about life, our grandchildren teach us what life is all about.
City Notes: Site certification is a team effort
Posted on Dec 18, 2019 By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corp. As The Avenue of the Saints Development Park was credentialed within the Iowa Certified Sites Program on Nov. 13, 2019, at the risk of omission I wish to thank those contributing to this success. The process for certification took nearly 18 months. A certified site is shovel-ready as companies look to build on locations quickly and relatively risk free.
City Notes: Get your furnace replacement application in early
Posted on Oct 31, 2019 By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corp. The Floyd County Housing Trust Fund is accepting applications within its Furnace Replacement Program. This program has installed approximately 420 new furnaces in Floyd County. Floyd is the only county in Iowa that has such a program, so it is to your benefit to take advantage of this offering.
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Sam Steiner First Floor Presents Barons Court Theatre 6 to 26 May 2019 Look for tickets... Share: The most intriguing elements of Sam Steiner’s dystopian two character play, first performed in 2015, come from its wordplay more than from its central relationship. For unknown reasons, the government has implemented a “hush law” restricting citizens to 140 words a day. Lemons explores what that does to a couple’s relationship.
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