Article I wrote for A Younger Theatre about performance night Drunken Nights with interviews from performers and Arts Director. (http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/feature-intoxicated-antics-with-drunken-chorus/) Alcohol and the British public get on like a particularly sozzled house on fire, but why keep the melodrama of one too many until the end of the night? Contemporary performance company Drunken Chorus (Chris Williams and Sheena Holliday) know that no good things come in moderation, which is why they’ve returned with their third instalment of Drunken Nights – a series of live performance nights set in, you guessed it, UK pubs. Nearing the end of its programme of events taking place both at the George Tavern in London and the Wagon and Horses in Lancaster , the project has already showcased some intriguing spectacles. Each artist – handpicked by both Williams and Holliday from numerous entries – is given ten minutes in the pub to do whatever they want. Crucially, this isn’t pub theatre scrunched up into a corner or hidden away in a dank upstairs alcove. Instead, each night the premises are taken over by the performers – much to the surprise of some unsuspecting walk-ins just looking for a quiet pint. So far the nights...

My review of the film Grudge Match for the Huffington Post. Original link can be found here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/laura-cress/grudge-match-film-review-_b_4655526.html It's De Niro versus Stallone. It's Raging Bull rumbling with Rocky. It's a film which no one thought needed to be made, but which, by sheer willpower and determination alone, overcame all the odds to win our hearts, enrich our spirits, and restore our faith in America once again. Well, not quite. With a premise as obviously pasted together as "what if one now old in the tooth classic actor from a boxing film fought another old in the tooth classic actor from a boxing film in a NEW boxing film", it was never going to reach the heights of Raging Bull's stylish cinematography, or even the straight up gung-ho patriotism of Rocky. Nevertheless the plot itself is pretty classic fare - two former boxing rivals (De Niro as Billy "The Kid" McDonnen, Stallone as Henry "Razor" Sharp) with a score to settle over a girl (the almost pointless Kim Basinger) who are finally tempted back for one last fight. Before that can happen however, the boxers have to get in shape, allowing the scriptwriters to gleefully throw in almost every...

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