Olympic Games 2012 This article is more than 12 years oldAlfred Lord Tennyson poem to inspire athletes at London 2012 OlympicsThis article is more than 12 years old Line from Tennyson's Ulysses to be visible at Olympic village
'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' engraved on wallA line from Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses will be engraved on a wall in the Olympic village to inspire athletes competing in the London 2012 Games. Read More...
Alice CooperReviewSwansea Arena
The shock-rock superstar delivers a fine spectacle, but his varied back catalogue gets homogenised on this arena tour
The man on stage has died this way before. The blade catches the spotlight on its way down and a lifeless head tumbles into a basket, ready to be paraded in front of the baying crowd. In Alice Cooper’s world, execution by guillotine counts as playing the hits.
Kicking off this co-headline tour with the Cult – who, thanks to Ian Astbury’s aggro charisma, remain a muscular, exciting rock band in their best moments and a meat-and-potatoes one the rest of the time – Alice doesn’t skimp on crowd-pleasing gimmicks. Read More...
StageReviewVaudeville theatre
The stories of string theorist Marianne and beekeeper Roland are told forwards, backwards and sideways as we explore their theatrical multiverse
How many ways can the same story be told? Innumerably, if quantum physics has anything to do with it. Or as the string theorist Marianne tells the bemused beekeeper Roland: “Every choice, every decision you’ve ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes. Read More...
