Your Argus
TEXT your pictures, videos and messages to 80360. Start your message with SUPIC or email your tip-offs »
Thomas Saves The Day, The Brighton Centre, Brighton, April 4
12:41pm Monday 7th April 2008
The Sodor railway is remarkably familiar: nothing runs on time but there are plenty of places to spend money while you're waiting.
This should have been great theatre - the Thomas books have strong stories - but things went awry. Here, the trains were subservient to the actors, in contrast to the books where the human characters are bit-part players. The best bits were when the engines were on stage, but we had to endure some second-rate songs before seeing them.
We didn't make it to the end - my Thomas-mad son, who had been excited all day, wanted to go home at the interval.
This was a shabby production, with little thought given to bedtimes and young attention spans, but plenty given to selling goodies (£6 for an 16-page programme anyone?) Perhaps the saddest sight was the trademark sign next to Thomas on the backdrop - just who thinks of intellectual property at a kids' show?
Editor's Choice
Eco-dilemmas solved
All the top tip columns make being green sound so easy: just change your light bulbs, walk to the shops and do your recycling, but it never really works out like that. SARAH LEWIS turns agony aunt and answers some of your pressing eco-questions.
Comment: Sign up to an NHS dentist to beat decay
When the new NHS dental contract was introduced, large numbers of dentists left the NHS and focused on private patients.
Woe of Woolies
Woolworths, one of the best-known names on the British high street, has been put into administration with £385 million of debt. As company bosses and administrators Deloitte wrestle with the task of rescuing the business, RICHARD GURNER takes a look back at the company’s history in Sussex and asks business leaders what needs to be done to revive its fortunes.
This week's walk: Horsted Keynes and Furner's Green
From the village of Horsted Keynes, this walk heads eastwards to encircle the nearby settlement of Danehill, crossing and recrossing two well-wooded valleys before returning along part of the Sussex Border Path, a longdistance walking route which sticks fairly closely to the boundary between East and West Sussex.
Shabby: The production left young attendees short-changed
In this section
- Army of yobs invade party
- Tobin found guilty of murder
- College is placed in top ten
- Backlash over schools merger
- Quiz Southern Trains boss about timetable changes
- Row over shoplifting investigation
- Bowls player died after "recycling" fall
- Exclusive: So precious ... baby born out of tragedy
- Pupils given glimpse of future as an academy
- Towns reliant on Government jobs
Sponsored Links
Local Services
Local Information
Enter your postcode, town or place name
