Glasshouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Sting plays a Wallsend foreman navigating the threat of his shipyard’s closure, bringing a renewed version of his musical to Brisbane’s newest theatre When Sting says he grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, he means it literally. At the end of his street in Wallsend, northern England, the Swan Hunter factory dominated the skyline. Each day thou...
Glasshouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre Sting plays a Wallsend foreman navigating the threat of his shipyard’s closure, bringing a renewed version of his musical to Brisbane’s newest theatre When Sting says he grew up in the shadow of a shipyard, he means it literally. At the end of his street in Wallsend, northern England, the Swan Hunter factory dominated the skyline. Each day thousands of workers filed past his house to labour on ships so big they obscured the sun. A royal visit sparked a childhood epiphany: watching the Queen Mother drive past in a black Rolls-Royce, Sting decided he didn’t want a life in the belly of a metal beast. He wanted something bigger, and he would find it: first as the magnetic frontman of the Police, then as a solo artist. Now 74, with 17 Grammys to his name, the superstar is back in the shipyard – this time in Australia, in a renewed version of his musical The Last Ship. Sting takes on a leading role as foreman Jackie White, who is navigating the threat of the shipyard’s closure as he grapples with his failing health. Sting is joined on stage by none other than Reggae icon Shaggy, who brings warmth to the stage as the Wallsend Ferryman, who watches over Jackie. Continue reading...
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Warring sides exchange 175 prisoners as Ukraine accuses Russia of 469 ceasefire violations, and Moscow blames Kyiv for gas station attack. What we know on day 1,509 Russia and Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of violating a brief ceasefire in their four-year-old war, hours into the truce put in place to mark Orthodox Easter. Governors of two Russian border regions said Ukrainian drones had a...
Warring sides exchange 175 prisoners as Ukraine accuses Russia of 469 ceasefire violations, and Moscow blames Kyiv for gas station attack. What we know on day 1,509 Russia and Ukraine on Saturday accused each other of violating a brief ceasefire in their four-year-old war, hours into the truce put in place to mark Orthodox Easter. Governors of two Russian border regions said Ukrainian drones had attacked targets in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, injuring five people. The general staff of Ukraine’s military said Russian forces had violated the terms of the 32-hour truce through assault actions, shelling and drone strikes. By late Saturday, Ukraine’s military said in a Facebook post that “469 ceasefire violations were recorded , namely: 22 enemy assault actions, 153 shelling attacks, 19 strikes by attack drones ... and 275 strikes by FPV drones.” In total, the Ukrainian military said Saturday had seen Russia carry out 57 airstrikes and drop 182 guided aerial bombs, along with deploying 3,928 drones and conducting 2,454 shelling attacks “on populated areas and positions of our troops”. In Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, governor Alexander Khinshtein also accused Kyiv of breaking the 32-hour truce by attacking a gas station in the town of Lgov with a drone, injuring three people, including a baby. Despite tensions over the truce, the warring sides exchanged 175 prisoners of war each on Saturday , according to officials from both sides. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had brought home 175 servicemen and seven civilians from Russian captivity. Andrii Yusov, a Ukrainian defence intelligence representative, said 163 of those freed had been held since 2022. “This is a real success, a very significant achievement,” Yusov said. “It is very hard to imagine what these people have been through during that time and you can see that the men are returning in varying conditions.” Russia’s defence ministry said the United Arab Emirates had mediated the exchange. Russia...