If you need to understand why the theatre space in the QFT is named in the honour of Friel, Tyrone Guthrie Society’s production of Translations demonstrates this reason each night of their successful run at The Brian Friel Theatre. David Grant brings a professionally performed and directed, amateur production to the stage.
BY BRIAN SWANN
PARKTxT, the brainchild of six final year Queen’s students is a new organisation providing a text service allowing car-park customers to check:
· How long they have been parked
· How much they have spent
· How long until the next tariff milestone kicks in.
This is the first installment of a fortnightly column by Daniel Hendry, taking a light hearted glance through the news pages.
Well what a few weeks it has been in that crazy world that is celebrity. There have been more scandals than in a Boris Johnson trip to Liverpool! The common denominator behind many of the scandals has been that of lewd extra-marital affairs.
Louie Walsh’s diabolically awful twosome have launched their attack on the music industry before the spotlight and novelty fades. It is more likely that the terribly tacky twins will spend their golden years perfoming at Butlin rather than topping charts, despite their newly announced UK Tour.
BY BRIAN SWANN
When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, a country already on its knees became hell on earth. Belfast musicians Anto O’Kane and Aaron Abernethy decided to do something to help, and soon found that their city wanted to join them.
BY HEATHER MCGARRIGLE
Tom Ford’s ‘A Single Man’ is a visually beautiful film whose shots linger over its subject matter with a studious intensity, reminding us that Ford is a designer and aesthete first, and a filmmaker second. It tells the tale of ‘light in his loafers’ lecturer George Falconer (Colin Firth) as he negotiates an L.A. day, typical but for the fact that George has decided this will be his very last day alive.
BY RIONNAGH SHERIDAN
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Tokyo Story is a film which enjoys perhaps the highest critical acclaim of any film. As I sat down to watch it, I imagined it would be so inherently likable that I would have to agree with all the critics. I was wrong.
BY CATHAL McGUIGAN