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Saturday, 1 August 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Cymbeline in the Rookery
This year's Shakespeare in the Rookery production will be Cymbeline, which will be performed at 4pm on Sunday 12th July.
A wicked stepmother, the queen of King Cymbeline whose sons have long ago been abducted and whose daughter, Imogen, has secretly married Posthumous, a man he disapproves of; a Roman tricking his way into Imogen's bedroom to win an improper bet; plots to kill Imogen; a brutish Roman army on the threshold; visionary dreams and voices from Heaven, all these make an exciting story whose happy outcome brings many joyous surprises.
Written in the magical Celtic tradition, this action-packed romantic comedy thrills and draws us into the lives of ancient Britons and Romans and the legends surrounding them. Rarely performed because seldom understood, this production is informed by research which lightens and clarifies this wonderful play thus giving audiences the opportunity to enjoy this rich gem of Shakespeare's late career .
The Friends of Streatham Common took up the mantle of ensuring that annual theatre productions continued in The Rookery when Lambeth Council cut all funding for arts in parks back in the early 1990s. It is great that Theatre Set-up continue to include Streatham on their annual tour, alongside venues which have included Elsinore Castle and chateaux of the Loire.
Notes on the plot for those of us who need to "brush up their Shakespeare"
Streatham Festival Programme now available
The programme is back from the printers. Copies are now available in Streatham Library and will be delivered to over 20,000 households in the four Streatham wards of Lambeth with the next edition of Lambeth Life.
Monday, 15 June 2009
Dunraven School's new hall - one of Britain's best public buildings of 2009.
Travellers along Leigham Court Road over the winter months were intrigued by the arrival of a a large number of sea containers on the Dunraven School site.
The containers have been re-used ingeniously as the giant building blocks for the school's new sports hall.
The project at Dunraven has now been nominated as one of the 24 buildings on the shortlist for the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award. (The website misspells the name of the architects!)
There is a recent article on the school hall (with better pictures of the exterior that I'm not stealing for this blog) in Building Design Magazine. This gives a comprehensive overwiew, although with phrases like...
The blank wall of polycarbonate, the cartoonish mirrored opening and the majestic trees stake out different positions on a sliding scale from abstraction to figuration rather like the improbably co-existing parts of an early David Hockney painting.
... it might perhaps be a candidate for Pseud's Corner
You can see the time-lapse photography of the sports hall construction at BBC Education News
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Silent Screen at the British Home - Friday July 10th
One of Streatham's best kept secrets is the splendour of the concert hall at the British Home at Crown Point. It contains what is probably Streatham's finest piano - a Steinway grand no less.
For the last couple of years the Streatham Festival has brought regular National Film Theatre/BFI Southbank pianist John Sweeney to Streatham to provide the live accompaniment to a classic of the silver screen.
This year sees another King Vidor comedy, The Patsy, starring Marion Davies.
Silent Screening
Fri Jul 10 7:30pm
Venue: The British Home
Crown Point, Crown Lane, SW16 3JB
Enter the Expo - Streatham's "Big Tent"
More news from our friends at the Streatham Festival...
Local community groups and organisations are invited to join in the Streatham Expo.
A brand new feature on July 4th will be theStreatham Expo, an opportunity for local organisations, services and groups to let people know what they are up to. We putting up a huge tent to accommodate them all and will be urging visitors and residents to be there and to find out what's going on.
The tent is rapidly filling up, but If your group or organisation has somehow managed to miss the earlier publicity and would in interested in a free stall or exhibition in this market place, get in touch with Sarah Coyte on 07852 916199 or via scoyte@lambeth.gov.uk. [Places are now strictly subject to availability]
Spectemur Agendo!
At the most recent meeting of Streatham Community Forum's committee, there was unanimity that the Forum has to be demonstrably more than a talking shop if it is to make a difference for local people.
We will be relaunching under a new name that gives a better idea of the forum's independence from Lambeth Council and our campaigning, proactive approach.
Watch this space!
On the subject of rebranding, this blog has had a quick makeover.
If anyone knows the author of the image at the top, which I snaffled some seven years and two PCs ago back in the days when webpages were webpages, please get in touch and I'll be happy to include a credit.
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