American actress Cherry Jones gives a fine turn as Amanda Wingfield in a Glass Menagerie first seen in Boston, Massachusetts, four years ago. Fading southern belle Amanda is frantic to find a man for her lonely daughter, Laura. Miss Jones makes her almost a Hyacinth Bucket figure, over-anxious for social grace, a desperate snob whose drunken husband long ago fled the nest. There is always some bleak humour to be had in this 1944 play, but playwright Tennessee Williams still leaves you with an unremitting sense of misery. ...read
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What fun seeing lentil chewing Lefties squirm: QUENTIN LETTS sees middle-class anxieties skewered in What's In A Name?
What's In A Name? at the Birmingham Rep begins when property guy Vincent announces to his Left-wing chums that he and his girlfriend intend to call their imminent baby Adolphe or Adolf. ...read
Mr Davies is like a cannibal joining the Vegan Society: QUENTIN LETTS on the plain-speaking Tory causing mayhem on the Women and Equalities select committee
Plain-speaking Philip Davies (Con, Shipley) is causing merry mayhem. Mr Davies has got himself elected on to the soppingly wet select committee for Women and Equalities. Given that he has spent years tilting against political correctness, this is like a cannibal becoming a trustee of the Vegan Society. Other members of the committee (eight women, two men) are horrified to have a Right-wing brute in their midst. ...read
February 2017
January 2017
- 'Reliable honest' husband who handed his wife, 51, all of his ready cash in a divorce 15 years ago is told he must up her maintenance after she blows the lot on 'unwise property investments'
- Award winning nurse who spiralled into depression after he was sacked for supporting a colleague set himself alight outside Kensington Palace 40 years after his mother also burnt herself to death
- Cannibal killer who murdered policeman and dissolved his body in acid is found dead in prison cell
- Mother-to-be, 23, is fined more than £600 for not buying £2.30 train fare - despite the ticket machine being broken
- KATIE HOPKINS: Schools are supposed to teach kids HOW to think for themselves, not WHAT to think. So why are so many liberal teachers bullying and brain-washing children with their own intolerant views?
- Nigel Farage is EGGED as he hits the campaign trail for Ukip in Stoke after it emerges he is sharing a Chelsea home with a French waitress and the MEP's wife says they separated YEARS ago
- Second Premier League star secures a transfer after his wife uncovered an affair with a fan it is claimed just days after another ace bagged a move for the same reason
- Shame of Saint Becks: How taxman blocked David's knighthood after he was accused of using a dodgy tax avoidance scheme as it's claimed the multi-millionaire tried cover up email leak and demanded BBC pay for a private jet
- Stable hand ex-fiancée of £148million lotto winner SELLS the £300,000 horses he bought her as a love token before they split
- Shopper yanked a niqab off a woman in a shopping centre and yelled 'you are in our country now, you stupid f****** Muslim' in front of her horrified child
- Inside Meghan Markle's Toronto home: Instagram photos reveal Harry's girl's love of fine art, white furnishings and expensive candles... so is this how she would redecorate Kensington Palace?
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- 'He's an absolute lion': Viewers call brave teenager, 19, who was left with horrific 85 per cent burns in a house fire 'inspirational' after his sister reveals he's 'smiling again'
- Congratulations ma'am! Gun salutes ring out across London to commemorate the Queen becoming the first British monarch to celebrate a Sapphire Jubilee
- How does she do it? After six years – and two children – Kate is still slipping into the same red suit she first wore in 2011 (and she looks even SLIMMER today)
- Brilliant Chinese master's student, 24, who moved to Britain to further her education was beaten to death by her karate blackbelt boyfriend who left her with dozens of injuries
- Lawyer, 44, was crushed to death by half-ton window frames which blew over after builders failed to secure them properly despite members of public seeing them swaying in the breeze
- Bodybuilder and his friend 'who claimed £25,000 insurance after car crash by saying they were STRANGERS were caught out by Facebook picture showing them together at wedding'
- New eyeballs please! Great Britain wins Davis Cup clash by default - after Canadian teenage star puts the UMPIRE in hospital by smashing the ball into his face in flash of temper
- Hero flight attendant rescues teen from human trafficker by leaving a secret note for her on Alaska Airlines bathroom mirror
- Tom Brady breaks down in tears while hugging his cancer-stricken mother after Patriots win historic FIFTH Super Bowl over Atlanta Falcons - cementing his status as the greatest QB of all time
- 'He's never had a fight in his 20 years': Father of 20-year-old man arrested for raping and strangling Queens jogger says his son is a 'very humble kid' who 'would never do what they say he has done'
- It's the Brady bunch! Champion QB poses with entire family after they watch him make Super Bowl history... while even grumpy coach Bill Belichick cracks a smile as he poses with rarely seen girlfriend
- 'Now your nightmare begins': Mother of murdered Queens jogger screams at 20-year-old who 'admitted' raping and strangling her daughter as they come face to face in court six months after her grisly death
- 'They've crossed over to mean': Sean Spicer slaps SNL after gum-chewing Melissa McCarthy skewers him but then says it was 'cute' and 'funny'
- Donald Trump 'avoids holding Melania's hand in public because he wants to look like a presidential alpha,' says body language expert
- Patriots quarterback Tom Brady shares heartfelt Instagram post confirming his sick mother has arrived in Houston to support him in his sixth Super Bowl appearance
- The most glamorous Super Bowl ever! Gisele gets a run for her money as stars like Adriana Lima and Olivia Culpo lead the rest of the WAGs at this year's clash between the Patriots and the Falcons
- Mystery over Tom Brady's jersey: Quarterback says he still hasn't found his Super Bowl jersey despite claims a Patriots employee locked it away
- JAN MOIR: Now we know the tawdry reality behind the facade of David Beckham
- Downcast Trump leaves Super Bowl party halfway through third quarter amid row with judge who he claims has put America 'in such peril' by halting his immigration ban
- 'Can't win them all': Patriots patron Mark Wahlberg consoles Falcons fanatic Usher as they lead celeb reaction to Super Bowl shocker
- Three-year-old girl is seized by court from adoptive parents and the only family she's ever known after convict biological dad demands her back on leaving jail
- Apocalypse island: Tech billionaires are building boltholes in New Zealand because they now fear social collapse or nuclear war. So what do they know that we don't?
- The campaigner who brought down Ivanka's fashion empire: Protester leading boycott is now going after Amazon for selling Trump suits
- 'Just like Joffrey': Hilarious memes poke fun at how Atlanta Falcons choked in the Super Bowl after losing in overtime to the New England Patriots
- 'It was not a way out. It was heartbreaking... the government doesn't belong here:' Photographer, 28, reveals why she chose to abort her sick baby after 23 weeks in response to Donald Trump's pro-life stance
- Policeman is charged with rape after footage emerges showing a black youth being arrested by four officers and 'sexually assaulted with a truncheon' in a Paris suburb
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