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• 19 Jul 2021
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
The Castle Players
The Bowes Museum
SATURDAY S performance of this romp through the 37 plays of England s Bard was a big day, and not just for the Castle Players.
While the Players have endured months of stage inactivity, those of us on the other side have been starved of our fix of live entertainment.
I had tickets to see singer Elles Bailey at the Sage, in Gateshead, on March 17, last year. It was cancelled at the last minute as the scale of the pandemic was becoming evident and since then. nothing.
I suspect I was not alone in delighting in the simple act of turning up to be entertained. It was a sell-out and word had reached that the previous evening’s show at Mickleton had gone down a storm. We were ready.
16 Feb 2021
SWITCHED ON: Ian Kirkbride during the event
A VIRTUAL switch on of Barnard Castle’s Christmas lights has reached “cult status” after going viral in Japan.
The revelation was made by Phil Creighton, of the Christmas lights group, when
addressing the council’s partnerships committee this month. The switch on, which usually attracts a large crowd, was streamed to the group’s website last year because of Covid-19 restrictions.
Mr Creighton said: “We just can’t believe it went the way it did in the end, given within ten days of the event we still didn’t clearly understand how we were going to do it.