FORMER MI5 boss turned novellist Stella Rimington spoke about her books, her former career as a spymaster, and her local connections to a packed house at the Lowdham Book Festival this week. The sell-out crowd at Caythorpe Cricket Club on…
Category: theatre
Garden opera returns to Lowdham
THE GARDENS of The Old Hall, Lowdham, will ring to the sounds of opera again in July with the return of the Garden Opera Company. In a departure from convention, the company will perform first Mozart’s little-performed one-act comedy Impresario,…
Panto presents a perfect crime
LOWDHAM PANTO is bringing a special production to the village in early June, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the village hall. Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime promises to be a light-hearted take on the crime detective genre, and might…
Cowboy Baby debuts at Lowdham Book Festival
AMONG THE delights in store for 2011’s Lowdham Book Festival is the inaugural production from Catfoot Theatre, a stage adaptation of Sue Heap’s classic children’s book Cowboy Baby. Winning gold in the 1998 Smarties Children’s Book Awards, Cowboy Baby is both an…
You looking at me?
THE OPERA DUDES describe themselves as “two modern day Mario Lanzas” who perform a unique combination of vocal arrangements with humour and charm. The two bring their performance The Codfathers of Croon to Lowdham Village Hall on Sunday 20 March, under the…
Cowslip Sunday gets dedicated website
A NEW WEBSITE dedicated to Lambley’s revived Cowslip Sunday celebrations has gone live. The site can be found at http://cowslipsunday.co.uk The first Sunday in May has been marked in Lambley as Cowslip Sunday for generations, celebrating the arrival of spring…
Catch the latest films in Lowdham
SOME OF the latest Hollywood blockbusters along with a classic black & white movie makes up the programme for the tenth anual Flicks in the Sticks film weekend in Lowdham, running from 3-6 March 2011. Organised by Jane Streeter and Ross Bradshaw…
Tempting fete: Lambley’s latest theatrical presentation
FOR VILLAGES across the country, the annual village fete is one of the most important dates in the calendar. For the inhabitants of Little Upper Downing, it is much more than that. From the tittle-tattle of the tearoom to the exchange…