Nottingham Post

Big night for new talent

- By SIMON WILSON

popcorn and brownie, the restaurant isn’t shy with portion sizes or extravagan­t toppings.

For those up for a challenge, try the Big Ed’s burger

– three beef patties, streaky bacon, gherkins, triple cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, maple baconnaise sauce, mustard and ketchup.

In celebratio­n of the revamp, there will be a free waffle giveaway for the first 50 visitors today.

Choose from maple and bacon, choca choca, bananarama, fruity fresh berries or a fried chicken waffle ... but once they are gone, they are gone.

Open every day, Ed’s Easy Dinner has vegetarian and glutenfree options and the children’s menu offers a main, side and drink for £5. Customers should note the giveaway is on July 3 only, from 8.30am, covers one free waffle dish per person and is not available with takeaway or delivery. YOUNG dancers and musicians from across Nottingham­shire will be on stage at Nottingham Playhouse tonight performing alongside dance profession­als.

Tom Dale Company’s Urban Explorers, which premiered last year, promises “evocative, free flowing urban contempora­ry dance” borne out of the UK’S electronic dance music scene.

The annual showcase offers youngsters the opportunit­y to work alongside Dale’s cast of dancers and this year the company has taken inspiratio­n from ideas about harvesting new energy sources, futuristic gardens and the collaborat­ion between the organic, digital and mechanical worlds.

Groups from across Nottingham­shire have been working on the project since March, creating pieces of contempora­ry dance fuelled by urban music – grime, trap, dubstep, and drum and bass.

Luke Rainford, 15, of Mansfield, said: “The fact that the project is so widespread across the Nottingham­shire area means that there is an immense amount of people performing in the final show and this will allow for some brand new connection­s for future collaborat­ions in the dance community.”

Said Dale: “We perform all over the world but have only performed a handful of times in Nottingham. We want this to become an annual offer so that people can get to know us and have a deeper engagement in the work as we grow the project into other art forms.”

The company created the project in partnershi­p with Inspire (culture, learning and libraries for Nottingham­shire), and successful­ly gained new NPO status from Arts Council England.

Performanc­e begins at 7.30pm. Tickets are £10 (£6 concession­s) from box office on 0115 941 9419.

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PICTURES: IAN HIDGKINSON/ PICTURE IT General manager Rachel Coelho shows off the new menu at Ed’s Easy Diner Below: Other views of the revamped diner
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