Retail industry This article is more than 1 year oldAldi’s 29p mince pie a close second to Waitrose’s winner in blind taste testThis article is more than 1 year oldWaitrose’s No 1 Brown Butter pies wowed with their ‘buttery aroma’, while Aldi’s, at half the price, scored just one point less
Tucking into a mince pie is usually the first sign Christmas is on the way and with budgets under pressure this year getting your fix doesn’t have to break the bank, with a 29p pie from Aldi coming a close second to Waitrose’s brown butter pastry in a taste test.
Room without a view … Charlie Murphy in Arlington. Photograph: Patrick RedmondRoom without a view … Charlie Murphy in Arlington. Photograph: Patrick RedmondEnda WalshReviewLeisureland, Salthill, Galway
The playwright embraces a new form of category-defying theatre in a story of love and oppression that echoes Orwell’s 1984
No Galway international arts festival seems complete without a new play by Enda Walsh.
His latest, set in a suburban seaside leisure centre, deals with Walsh’s familiar themes of entrapment, isolation and imagined worlds.
TheatreObituaryPeter Wilson obituaryLeading West End producer who took over the Theatre Royal in Norwich in 1992 and completely transformed its fortunesPeter Wilson, starting out in university revue with Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis, ended up as one of the leading theatre producers in the West End.
He transformed Susan Hill’s macabre thriller The Woman in Black (1987) – adapted by Stephen Mallatratt for Alan Ayckbourn’s theatre in Scarborough – into the second longest running play of all time, after The Mousetrap; and Stephen Daldry’s sensational 1992 National Theatre revival of JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls into a repeat visitor (six years at the Garrick theatre) and a touring phenomenon, both in the UK and abroad, over the last 30 years.
Movies This article is more than 11 years oldSacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell leave Django UnchainedThis article is more than 11 years oldActors will no longer appear in Quentin Tarantino's 19th-century Deep South follow-up to Inglourious BasterdsSacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell are no longer appearing in Quentin Tarantino's latest film, Django Unchained, according to US reports.
Baron Cohen had been due to make his debut for the Pulp Fiction director in his much-hyped 19th-century Deep South-set follow up to Inglourious Basterds, cameoing in the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who buys the title character's enslaved wife as a companion.
Self Portrait (1990). Photograph: © Viviane Sassen/MEPSelf Portrait (1990). Photograph: © Viviane Sassen/MEPThe big picturePhotographyThe Dutch photographer’s self-portrait in a bathroom mirror reflects her fascination with the strangeness and eroticism of the body
The Dutch photographer and artist Viviane Sassen has spoken about her work dramatising her shyness, her anxieties about connecting with the world. In that context, this self-portrait, which prefaces Phosphor, a new book and a large retrospective exhibition of her work, might seem out of character.