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Three great ways to see in the spring. Don’t miss out!
THE GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOON
5-6 MAY
A lot of good things have come Cheryl Cole’s way in the twelve months since she last played her home town. Thanks to a star turn as the new judge on The X Factor, her reputation has swung from that of Britain’s most publicly-wronged woman to the nation’s new sweetheart. Then Girls Aloud picked up the best single BRIT award – their first, if you can
enhanced by some vintage Bollywood touches, including vibrantly coloured Rajasthani costumes, and a soundtrack of original songs whose music draws on the Indian classical tradition. The performers will (naturally) be lip-synching so sling on your sari and sing along.
believe it – for The Promise. Heck, she even got to appear on the cover of JetAway in December.
She can expect an ecstatic reception when she and her band-mates play their first two nights in Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena as part of their Out of Control tour (they’ll be back for another two in June – a record for the venue). The Girls are also playing dates in Manchester, Sheffield, Belfast and Liverpool.
GAME ON
FROM 14 MAY
Have you ever woken up in the wee small hours of the morning to find yourself alone in bed, padded barefoot down to the living room and been confronted with the sight of your boyfriend sitting on the couch, tongue stuck out, staring at the television screen, surprisingly alert, considering it’s 4am. Video game widows can give their other half a treat and try to, erm, console themselves by finding out what the big attraction is at the Videogame Nation exhibition in Manchester’s Urbis centre. Following the development of gaming from the distinctly lo-fimoving blobs of colour which were the best the ZX Spectrum could manage, to the highly convincing alternative realities of today, this show offers something to all comers. And on the way home you can make him buy you that Wii Fit you’ve had your eye on.
BRONTË GOES BOLLYWOOD
27-30 MAY
They’re not the first people to give Wuthering Heights the song and dance treatment – some readers will be old enough to remember Kate Bush on Top of the Pops, windmilling her arms about and shrieking: “Heathcliff, It’s me it’s Kathy, I’ve come home now.” But the Tamasha theatre company, whose previous work includes East is East, has certainly come up with a unique approach. The action of Emily Brontë’s classic novel is transplanted from the wind-swept Yorkshire Moors to the arid landscape of Rajasthan, in northern India. In place of Cathy and Heathcliff, we follow Shakuntala and Krishan, whose love affair is thwarted by rigid social conventions. The melodrama of the story is enhanced by some vintage Bollywood touches, including vibrantly coloured Rajasthani costumes, and a soundtrack of original songs whose music draws on the Indian classical tradition. The performers will (naturally) be lip-synching so sling on your sari and sing along.
believe it – for The Promise. Heck, she even got to appear on the cover of JetAway in December.
She can expect an ecstatic reception when she and her band-mates play their first two nights in Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena as part of their Out of Control tour (they’ll be back for another two in June – a record for the venue). The Girls are also playing dates in Manchester, Sheffield, Belfast and Liverpool.
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