It seems I am a sucker for punishment. Last Friday I waded through the cold and the rain to pick up a £2 ticket for the public dress rehearsal of Curve’s latest offering, ‘Hot Stuff.’ Come with me as I take you on a journey of what I was exposed to. First a bit of history. Back in...

I’m still in shock about this. Some disgusting old cow in Coventry decides it would be a good idea to stroke a cat lovingly then toss it into a wheelie bin and shut the lid. 16 hours later the owners find the poor kitty and decide to watch their home CCTV back whereupon they find...

Not the BBC televisual treat but the multimillion pound stage show that chronicles the time line we know for when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Now, I knew that there would be puppets and robots and other fancy dinosaur shaped majiggers but I had no idea of the scale to expect. Bloody huge...

A night out at the theatre is always nice and the fact that a local community theatre group were adapting Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials made a YourFace outing a must. We had the best of both worlds in terms of seating with Blackett and Morgan high above the action and being able to see...