Get a flavour of RSC s new jazz-inspired Midsummer Night s Dream this weekend
| Updated: 09:31, 06 January 2021
The first item on the RSC programme in 2021 is a juicy one: a concert of work in progress from Swinginâ The Dream, a jazz-infused production of A Midsummer Nightâs Dream which ran on Broadway in 1939, and which is being livestreamed on Saturday at 7pm. Artistic director Gregory Doran calls from a riverside dressing room to tell Gill Sutherland about it and the mood at the theatre.
How is it in the building? Is it a bit sad?
It looks like a puppy that youâve left at home for a rather long time during the day and itâs rather bleary-eyed but very, very pleased to see you. Itâs just lovely to see everyone even though we are all wearing masks and are socially distanced. Weâve appointed among ourselves our own Covid marshals, because you do forget. You want to go and hug people but you canât.You drop your guard at the end of the show an
Those who knew Jerry L. Sullivan and the way he worked hard to help others in the community and nationwideâthrough the fraternal organization of the Eaglesâare mourning his death from COVID-19.
âHe was larger than life to a lot of people,â said Robert Limerick, a fellow Eagle and lifelong family friend. âHe had a presence about him, and it was almost like Dale Earnhardt when he died. Nobody thought that could happen. When Jerry passed away, everybody was shocked.â
Sullivan, 72, died Dec. 13 at Mary Washington Hospital, little more than three weeks after he got sick. His symptoms started with fever, but his biggest complaint was nausea, said his wife, Maxine, and it was so overwhelming that he lost 15 pounds in a matter of days.
HAMPTON – The house at 21 Battcock Road has been lighted up for Christmas each December since 2006, done up a little bigger each year by Hunter Lawson in remembrance of his mother Shelly.
“I think she would think it’s awesome,” said Lawson, a Winnacunnet High School graduate who turned 18 this year. “It’s gotten crazier every year.”
His mother, Michelle “Shelly” Lawson, was a WHS grad herself, working as a single mother at La Bec Rouge when she died suddenly from a brain aneurysm at 31 years old. Hunter, who was 4 years old that year, has since then been raised by Shelly’s parents Chuck and Marge, as well as his La Bec Rouge family – his godparents, longtime La Bec manager Dan “Desi” Lanio and former owner, Tracey Dewhurst.
SEABROOK – A 35-year-old Hampton resident and local nurse died in a Seabrook car crash Tuesday afternoon, leaving behind a devastated family and her golden retriever, Shimmer.
Rachel Frost, a nurse at Exeter Hospital, was remembered this week as a loving sister, daughter, aunt and dog mother after her 2019 Hyundai Tucson struck a tree on Railroad Avenue. She died from her injuries in the crash, her car rolling over and ejecting her onto the roadway, according to police.
Now her parents and three sisters are preparing for her funeral service with the aid of a GoFundMe page that raised more than $13,000 in less than 24 hours. The page, created by her sister Kristie Moulton, describes her as “a tremendous daughter, sister and friend” who “loved deeply and was fiercely loyal.”