We’ve all sat far away from home in the lounge of some large hotel when the cocktail pianist starts to play. Some notes he gets right, some notes he doesn’t. Some tunes he knows all the way through – others he doesn’t.
We’ve all sat far away from home in the lounge of some large hotel when the cocktail pianist starts to play. Some notes he gets right, some notes he doesn’t. Some tunes he knows all the way through – others he doesn’t.
Thirty years on from Shirley Valentine, Janet takes a holiday to Greece. There she meets the woman of her dream, in a suit and tie singing Frank Sinatra songs. To a backdrop of his greatest hits, All or Nothing at All, Strangers in the Night, I’ve Got you under my Skin their romance unfolds and Janet realises this holiday was a departure in more ways than one.
Behind The Lines’ story of Edwardian actor Basil Hallam and forces’ sweetheart Elsie Janis makes a case for the value of creating something live from the archives, as opposed to being drawn into a maelstrom of escapist digital technology and online post‐truth‐alt‐right propaganda.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most mediocre of all? In his 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Gavin shared the story of his struggle to accept the reality of his own mediocrity. Now he’s back and more mediocre than ever.
