Unimited Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jon Spooner talks to us about his eye-opening new show Future Bodies premiering at Home as part of the Manchester Science Festival, which asks, as we increasingly fuse our brains with technology, at what point...
In a social media driven world people are increasingly divided into more and more unpleasant categories of evil – Snowflake, Nazi, Remoaner, Trot, Libtard, Brextremist, Feminazi, Piers Morgan… But is life really that bad? Marcus Brigstocke is...
The late, Lily Bollinger, a former head of Bollinger Champagne, once said: “I only drink champagne when I’m happy and when I am sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it when I’m not...
How did Hollywood’s Alec Baldwin find himself in the same casting bracket as Coronation Street’s Curly Watts? It’s a question those who’ve seen the 2012 movie Rock of Ages might well ask on seeing the cast list for the stage musical’s UK tour. It’s...
Ashley Banjo and Diversity enter the circus ring to a soundtrack of The Greatest Show and the 2000-strong crowd goes wild. The atmosphere feels like a pop concert and there are grown women screaming like excited teenagers. In the 250th anniversary...
Following a sell-out London run, the National Theatre’s radical reinterpretation of Macbeth goes on tour, arriving at the Lowry on 29 September 2018. Artistic director, Rufus Norris talks to Quays Life about anarchy, uncertainty and why the heart of...
It’s been a long wait for young Roald Dahl fans in the regions, but after eight years the RSC’s multi-award-winning, Matilda the Musical embarks on its first UK tour. The length of the run – 11 weeks at the Palace Theatre in Manchester – gives some...
After sitting through countless runs of Shakespeare’s history plays, former literary manager of the RSC Jeanie O’Hare worked out that the Bard wrote more lines for Queen Margaret than he did for King Lear. How could this be when most of us have...
So many songs have been devoted to Paris in the springtime but, for me, September is a fantastic month to visit. The main holiday season is waning so there are fewer tourists, it’s a little cooler so much better for walking and taking in the sights...
What has happened to France and its people over 50 years, between les événements of May 1968 and now, between the last year of De Gaulle and the first year of Macron? How does a major national cinema engage with change – through films that...
Carmel Thomason
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