Author: Eastbourne Reporter

Mark Farrelly playing Quentin Crisp

REVIEW: Naked Hope

By Gary Murray Mark Farrelly’s one-man play about the legendary author, writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp was staged last night at Grove Theatre, Eastbourne. Portraying real people might be daunting but, as in previous performances at the Grove, such as The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton, and Howerd’s End about the (secret) […]

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Travel With My Aunt

REVIEW: Travels With My Aunt

By Gary Murray Travels With My Aunt is the second of three plays being presented as part of the ‘Summer In The Park‘  season at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne. Following an entertaining but by-the-book production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Table Manners, Travels is the tale of Henry, a mild-mannered bank manager who’d much rather be […]

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SPOTLIGHT: Why chalk grasslands are so important for all of us

By ecology-trained consultant Julie Bygraves, of Wild Bourne It’s hard to express how special a chalk grassland is – you just have to go to see one. It’s also hard to explain what it is: in genetic terms it’s an assemblage of rare plants on chalk! But the constituent species can vary enormously depending on […]

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A Day in the Life: the co-ordinator of a community food project

Name: Sally Lee   Role: Project co-ordinator of Rooted Community Food How long I’ve been doing this: Six months  How I got here: Through an accumulation of factors, but mostly because I found it increasingly difficult to witness what we are allowing to happen to our beautiful planet. I had been a climate activist for a […]

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