Diana Deal

Bath Light Operatic Group have kept to a mainly classic form in performing the Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

More than 100 years after The Importance of Being Earnest was first staged, Oscar Wilde’s satirical comedy still has the audience in hoots of laughter.

Take two seemingly successful, middle class, academic couples, mix at a late night after-party, add plenty of alcohol and watch the pretences fall away. That is basically the plot of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And it is not for the faint-hearted.

It might well be 40 or 50 years since The Four Seasons and Frankie Valli topped the charts. But their music is alive and well, blasting out in the hit show New Jersey Nights at the Theatre Royal in Bath.

This is set in a rundown backyard in 1940s and 50s Trinidad, where prostitutes ply their trade under the accusing eye of respectable families; where jobs are few and far between and where Calypso music, wit and raw sexual energy abound.

The year is 1609 and Galileo, a brilliant mathematician, uses the newly-invented telescope to observe the heavens. A year later his observations provide the first experimental proof that the Earth goes around the Sun, not the other way around.

HOLT have won the Wiltshire Men’s Four Rink League for the first time in their 91-year history, writes DAVE EATON.

The Inn at Freshford, The Hill, Freshford, Bath BA2 7WG.

Barbara Windsor, looking nothing like her 70-plus years, descended slowly on to the stage, gently let down by a wire.