It is 1997. A train leaves Scotland bound for London. On board, John Josana, a journalist, is reading a book about Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for many years). The train is crowded. A tall man with a backpack takes the seat...
Abigail’s Party was first staged as a play in 1977, and then later screened on television to great acclaim. The play was as much of its time as the Cinzano adverts with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, and like the ad has since filtered down into...
Following its success at Tate Britain last year, Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990, opens at Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery. The wide-ranging exhibition of feminist art showcases work from more than 90 women artists...
Following its sell-out debut at HOME, Manchester in 2023, actor, writer and HIV activist Nathaniel J Hall is taking his critically acclaimed second play, Toxic on tour, arriving at Lowry, Salford on April 16. He talks to Amy Corringham about the...
A brand-new stage version of multi-award-winning Malorie Blackman’s novel Pig Heart Boy comes to Lowry, Salford. Quays Life met the cast to find out more about bringing this important story about organ donation to the stage. Based on Malorie...
Driftwood arrives at Lowry for the end of its tour to a sell-out audience, such is the anticipation of seeing Tim Foley’s latest work. The emotional two-hander is the second play from the Bruntwood Prize winner, whose Electric Rosary was staged at...
‘The Moth’, by Paul Herzberg, was originally filmed as a 10-minute piece to camera, as part of a series of short films from Elysium Theatre Company called ‘The Covid-19 Monologues’. The film was seen around the world, winning several awards...
I’ve never felt drawn to the work of Jane Austen (whose modest output totals six novels), for various reasons. Middle class characters who do little except play the harpsichord, and visit other people’s houses, seems a narrow seam to mine. Rom-coms...
The success of The Crown tells us there is plenty of dramatic opportunity in any story about the late Queen as well as a healthy audience for it. Recently Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) too has been getting more attention from dramatists, being the...
Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman is a dramatic opera steeped in folklore, telling the tale of a cursed sea captain doomed to sail the oceans until he finds redemption through the love of a faithful woman. The story follows the Dutchman, who can...
Martin Thomasson
Dave Porter
Verity Marchant
Amy Corringham
Carmel Thomason
Steve Timms
Liz Ratcliffe