Arts Diary: Will Marriott

for the first time in its 28-year history, the Beverley Festival is to include a film strand, featuring four specially selected films with, as is to be expected, a strong folk music theme.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th May 2011, 11:04 BST

It all starts on the morning of Saturday, June 18 in the Club Room at Beverley Leisure Complex with Travelling for a Living, a 1965 BBC documentary featuring the early days of the Watersons as they toured the country in an old van from their home in Hull. Later the same day there is a chance to see how the Watersons have evolved over the years with a special showing of The Waterson Family, Live at Hull Truck. At noon on Sunday, June 19 there will be a screening of the mock documentary about the US folk scene, A Mighty Wind, made by the same team who were behind the hugely-popular “rockumentary” Spinal Tap. This will be followed by the much-acclaimed Morris, A Life with Bells On – a comedy which follows the fortunes of an avant-garde Morris team trying to develop their art form. More details are at www.beverleyfilmsociety.org

The lovely people at the Alhambra want us to tell you that Robin Cousins is coming to Bradford to star as the Teen Angel in musical Grease. That’s as in ice skating legend, Robin Cousins.

Coming to the stage. In a musical.

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They insist that he’s very good and played the role in the West End. Find out if he really is “very good” on stage, or just “very good” on stage for an ice skater, when the show comes to the Bradford Alhambra June 21 to July 2.

We have almost no idea how to start with this. Here goes: tonight at the always adventurous Theatre in the Mill in Bradford, there is a... performance. Bull has been created by Birmingham-based theatre company Kindle and is performed for an audience of 30 by a chef-percussionist, a dancer and a singer.

Yes, a chef-percussionist – Mike Knowlden will prepare a menu for the audience while drumming. The rest of the evening – well, the people behind it say: “Bull is a bizarre ceremony that politely celebrates the death of others and marks the passing of those sacrificed to the half-man half-bull encased within the labyrinth.” Intrigued? Confused? The show is in Bradford tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Tickets and info 01274 233200.

Exciting news from Hebden Bridge based publishers Bluemoose – or, as the man in charge Kevin Duffy has re-christened the company (temporarily in an email) Bluemooski. Kevin has sold the foreign rights to a Russian publisher for two of the company’s novels Gabriel’s Angel and King Crow.

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Emmerdale actor Tanya Vital is bringing a new event to Leeds that sounds just too crazy to miss. MonologueSlam is like a slam poetry contest, only it’s a contest between actors and they perform monologues. Actors can sign up to perform prepared pieces and improvised speeches. No, we don’t really get it either, but it sounds like fun – the first one is happening at the Wardrobe in Leeds on June 6 at 7.30pm – www.MonologueSlam.com Contact: [email protected]

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