Review of Happy Highways: a theatrical walk through Happy Valley
From far away, the sight of the beautiful world makes her realise that home is everything she wants. “I’ve glimpsed heaven, and it’s here,” she says, back down to earth again on Rusthall Common.
Interview with artist Ben Marchant
Ben Marchant’s paintings juxtapose elements of the expected with the unexpected to create something new. “In one painting I thought I would take an image like the Mona Lisa and combine it with another face,” he says. “Some of my inspiration also comes from what if? questions. What if the Titanic had arrived in New York? What if Diana hadn’t died?”
A space for artists and makers
The idea was to create a community where artists, makers and entrepreneurs can rent a table, workshop, studio or floor space on a rolling monthly basis in an environment with a creative and collaborative energy to it.
Happy Highways: the second Rusthall community play
Just as the audience will be on a journey through the rocks when they see the play, it will be about other journeys people are on.
Legend of the Rocks
“The story came from the community, and so it is not the play I would have written myself. Trying to put a play together from the imaginations of fifty different heads was challenging but also extraordinary and wonderful.”