The joy of this production is seeing Shakespeare being reinvented in a different place and culture. The setting is modern day India, so there are mobile phones and laptops, but the setting is rich and traditional while the characters are timeless. Meera Syal is the witty Beatrice who declares she will never marry. Syal is incredibly dextrous, managing to convey all the sarcasm, humour and bitterness of a di ...

‘Everybody said we were mad!’ laughs Cathie Hubert of the Ashdown Gallery ‘We started a village art gallery in the middle of a recession!’ Two years later she and co-founder Mette Udsholt run a thriving business in Foreset Row, East Sussex and next week launch an exhibition by David Hensel, an artist so collectible that his work is now being acquired by the V & A. The show opens on the 5th October when ...