Newsletter – Pantos and poetry (12 January 2012)
Thursday 12 January
What’s hot on www.easthampshire.org this week
This week in East Hampshire you can start the New Year as you mean to go on – with a raucous panto, some serious music, a hard-core poetry slam down and, we respectfully suggest, some much-needed exercise.
Still want more? There’s lots on www.easthampshire.org
This week’s top events
1) Friday, Alton: Well-known acts and some new faces provide the post-Christmas pick-me-up at Alton’s Lounge Bar’s Acoustic Night
2) Friday, Saturday, Haslemere: It’s panto time! Oh no it is isn’t! Oh … let’s just get on with it, yes? Haslemere Thespians provide the knockabout fun with Sleeping Beauty. It was a hit with this reviewer, at least.
3) Friday onwards, Petersfield: More traditional panto action. This time it’s the Winton Players frocking up as ugly step-sisters in Cinderella
4) Friday onwards, Headley: Headley Theatre Club get in on the act with a performance of The Nutcracker, it’s a dramatic version though, not a ballet. You’ve missed the ballet
5) Saturday, Petersfield: A special charity gig has been arranged to help popular musician, and Hanging Tree Band member, Dafydd Tavinor who has recently been diagnosed with leukaemia
6) Tuesday, Petersfield: Jack Dean is a fast-shootin’, slam-talkin’, hammer and tongues spoken word artist and he’s performing at Petersfield Write Angle. Poetry – it’s the new rock, apparently.
This week’s top news
1) The latest stretch of the Shipwright’s Way has been opened so get out and enjoy the countryside
2) Whitehill and Bordon residents can now have their say on the future of Quebec Barracks
3) A new medical information website could save lives
4) A Bordon man has been arrested after a pensioner had her bag snatched in Alresford
5) Petersfield pupils enjoyed a bit of peace and enlightenment with the visit of a monk to their school
Review of the Week
This week sees reviews of the colourful and sparkly Sleeping Beauty, at Haslemere, (which is still running – see above) and two reviews of recent Moscow City Ballet performances. Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker. You can’t say we don’t do proper culture here.
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