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Kath Archer the theatre director and her team Touch Theatre have pulled off another stunning and revelatory play  Dennis Kelly’s Girls  & Boys (following their last production of The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood)  for audiences in Cornwall interested in adult contemporary theatre.  We saw it tonight in the inappropriately named (but locally well supported) venue the Temperance Hall in Penryn.  This is a play littered and revelling in slaggy language that is shocking, sexy and honest, describing a woman  who wants to count and is determined to get ahead and live life as an equal . But  while she gets what she wants the plot  veers and shape shifts.  Relationships which start out passionate and hot, morph to the contented but steady, motherhood rewards, power shifts, disillusion and  violence intervene.    A  superb performance (it’s a one woman show) as The Woman by Emma Phillips matched with great direction (Kath Archer) , a smart set with a revolve(!), soundtrack ( I love the piano)  a

What's wrong with old-fashioned entertainment.....Answer absolutely nothing!   This concert by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Brass and Woodwind Sections was a model of exactly that.  The programme (see below) didn't perhaps have  the same gravitas as exemplified by the Sibelius Second Symphony the full orchestra had played under the baton of Kirill Karavits the night before to a packed house at the Hall for Cornwall.  But it was stylish,  hugely polished and beautifully executed.  And let's face it any programme which includes a Leonard Berstein score is going to produce a lot of fireworks and excitement.   As the players clicked their fingers to get us into the mood of the West Side of New York, the menace of the scrap to come was palpable and the sheer joy of wonderful, gripping, rhythmic energy pulsed through the hall.   Here is a paean to the art of the arranger too.   Because on the evidence of this concert there are some very clever musicians weaving some nifty l

 Roseland Music Society Cornwall Cello Voices  11th February 2022 Barbara Degener:  Leader Liz Brazier Susanna Campbell Ben Hoadley Tim Pratt Giovanni Gabrieli                    Canzona Seconda  arr. Nick Halsey Henry Purcell                         Fantasia no 3 arranged by D. Moore J.S.Bach                               Three movements From Suite in G major                                                       Prelude - Sarabande - Gigu F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy     Andate for organ arr O Mandozzi Franz Schubert                    Allegro moderato from Sonata for Four Hands G. Valensin                         Menuet:  arr G. Piatigorsky 4 American Folksongs     arr, Wendy Bissinger A. Villoldo                         El Chachoritto  arr. W.Birtel J.S> Bach                              Chorale "Der Christ"  arr. J.Navascues D. Popper                              Requiem op. 66 D. Johnstone                         Argencello  Marie    Dare                         Elegy G.