Culture
Bloody thrones and other plays
Five people sit calmly in front of a cinema screen. The curtain is about to come down on the Rye Arts Festival. But mayhem breaks out. Rape, poisoning, and intrigue follows. The body count rises. This is 16th century Elizabethan England and Rye playwright John Fletcher is at work. Ray Prewer spells out the plot - which was set to music
An unforgettable conclusion
Alexander Stiller reviews one of the last concerts in this year's Arts Festival as the Belcea and Piatti quartets unite for an octet
Sacred and profane in church
Last week the classical vocal ensemble Stile Antico returned to the Rye Arts Festival after a six year wait to perform their set "Sacred or Profane" - in a church. Ray Prewer reviews the concert.
Fashion at the cutting edge
Want to see some young talent and cutting edge designs during the Arts Festival ? If you weren't at the Studio School Fashion Show, you missed out. Gillian Roder gives her impressions
Cabaret queen raises roof
Gales of laughter shook the Arts Festival's Lamb House marquee as Tim Redfern's hilarious cabaret evening provided a light hearted end to the festival, of which it was (apparently) not officially part
A trio of masterpieces
The Odysseus Trio are setting out on a musical journey. Alexander Stiller reviews their Arts Festival concert in All Saints Church in Iden.
An EF Benson you might not know
The story of EF Benson's astonishing family and the network of major English novelists living in Rye between the wars, sets the scene for a trilogy of sequels to Benson's Mapp and Lucia books. Gillian Roder reports on one of the Arts Festival's final events.
Let’s go to the movies!
This weeks featured film showing at Rye Community Centre Film on Friday 02 October - The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - This second helping of the Exotic Marigold Hotel saga is a joyful romp with a host of National Treasures of stage and screen on view. For trailer to this and other movies showing in Rye please follow the link..
Great architect hides in shadows
Christopher Wren's "builder" was much more than that, reports Kenneth Bird from an Arts Festival talk.
Sixty years ago – an icon
Sixty years ago this week James Dean became the governing image of a restless, rootless generation, the subsequent release of his films only enhancing his stature as rebel king. Like Che Guevara twelve years later, his face was suddenly pinned to all our walls