Halesworth

The 17th Halesworth Arts Festival is about halfway through.  You've missed Opera-lele, and silent film The Cat and the Canary but tonight it's poet Roger McGough and the festival closes with a James Bond concert hosted by the divine Madeline Smith.

♫ Framlingham chanteuse Polly Gibbons at the Halesworth Cut tonight.

Lowestoft had a fishing village known as The Grit, and Poetry People are presently touring a words, music and film show about the lost village.  You've missed it in Halesworth but there are shows this week in Ipswich, Leiston and yes Lowestoft.

Like we said before free kid's films through out August at the Halesworth Cut, tomorrow it's the anime Ponyo.

FREE kid's films start tomorrow at the Halesworth Cut with matinee performances through out August.

 JOB  Comms and marketing manager wanted in Halesworth for the World Land Trust and maternity cover.

The three day festival FolkEast upcoming this August at Glemham Hall has satellite (rip Mindy Jostyn) concerts throughout the year.  Tomorrow it's Matthew Crampton and Jeff Warner performing Human Cargo at the Halesworth Cut. ♫

Eastern Angles at the Halesworth Cut this Friday (not last Saturday as shown in the Cut's newsletter) with a play set in a Clacton B&B.

Booze pinched last month from the Halesworth and Harleston Co-ops, police want to interview this man.

Last night in the Halesworth Cut at Roughcast Theatre's Measure for Measure it took us a while to realise that Duke Vincentio's crutches weren't a theatrical device (put us in mind of the silent Petruchio).  Wikipedia and the programme emphasised the play is more than a comedy but both Tim Hall and Simon Evans got good laughs whilst the rest of the convoluted narrative and large cast rolled along very nicely thank you.  Roughcast are in Southwold tonight, Bungay and Diss next weekend.

 JOB  Six month contract for a full time Transport Administrator in Halesworth.

Tonight at the Wingfield Barns Open Space Theatre start a tour around near the coast of Tennessee William's Suddenly Last Summer.  Performance this Saturday at the Huntingfield Hub and the Saturday after at the Halesworth Cut.

♫ Yesterday afternoon at the Halesworth Cut the two person Opera-lele melodically worked their way through mainstream opera, adverts and some musicals.  Lots of jokes and the audience who were having a lovely time and had been encouraged to join in hummed the chorus' part to Nesunn Dorma ... what a knowledgeable lot.

The 16th Halesworth Arts Festival kicked off Saturday with a sold out Chris Barber Big Band but shows still to come over the next two weeks include singer Stacey Kent, witty Kathy Lette, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, and silent film Chicago with live accompaniment. ♫

Early Saturday evening a woman tending a grave in the Holt Road Cemetery Halesworth was assaulted.