Set designer Bob Cousins had a problem. Eamon Flack, Belvoir St Theatre’s artistic director, wanted to do Tracy Lett’s great 2007 play, August: Osage County, and Letts specifies a set consisting with a three-storey house, including a three-room ground floor – hardly possible on Belvoir’s stage, so they simply abandoned…
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Jazzmeia Horn’s grandmother knew that Jazzmeia’s mother was pregnant before the mother did herself. Her grandmother told her she would have a musical child, who should be christened Jazzmeia. Her mother’s response? “Hopefully it’s a girl!” Despite the name, it was gospel and soul music that filled young Jazzmeia’s early…
Mention The Police – the band, not the law enforcement agency – and we tend to firstly think of Sting: he of the boyish voice and blithely melodic songs. Drumming aficionados will certainly remember Stewart Copeland’s flamboyant, reggae-tinged playing, and only then do we come to Andy Summers, the trio’s…