Hazel RoyDirector, Hazel Roy has worked with Thailand’s Moradokmai Theatre Community for over a decade. Much has changed over that time and, as her recent visit shows, the Community never fails to surprise, creating an irresistible draw that has her...
Martin ThomassonSometime in the mid-1970s I, and about 90% of a fair-sized crowd, got to our feet to applaud and then cheer, not a football match or a âliveâ show, but a film. Whatâs more, this wasnât Hollywood or a West End premiere. This was a matinee at the...
Lorraine Worsley-CarterDuring these uncertain times, many of us are taking the time to explore the pathways of our local parks. Some of us might stop and reminisce about our childhood and comment about the size of the climbing frame in the parkâs playground: âIt must have...
Carmel ThomasonThe Lowry is running free online dance workshops for young people to audition for a place on its successful dance programme. The Lowry CAT is the North West base for national scheme, Centres for Advanced Training, which enables young dancers, aged...
For every small child, the world is like a pile of jigsaw pieces without a picture showing you how the finished job is meant to look. Worse, than that, whenever you think youâre starting to fit a bit of it together, make sense of it, some adult...
Event organiser Liz Taylor, aka the Millionaire Party Planner, has been a leader in luxury party planning for more than 35 years. She talks to Quays Life about delving into her little black book of celebrity clients to launch a brand a new podcast...
A friend of mine once ruined his parentsâ Christmas morning by throwing a blue strop because the tricycle theyâd saved for months to buy him didnât have the boot that heâd so clearly explained to them was essential. The boot was the bit where he was...
The second time I was stopped in the street for questioning by the police, was not an ordeal. It was a bright spring morning. I was walking away from Bolton town centre, on my way to teach a class at the Chadwick campus of Bolton Institute of Higher...
âHi-yo, Silver, away!â the Lone Ranger used to cry at the end of each episode. Silver, as the name suggests was a magnificent grey horse, the trusty steed of one of the most popular heroes of childrenâs TV in the 1950s and early 60s. I imagine this...
Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Hull Truck Theatre are streaming their acclaimed 2019 revival of musical The Hired Man to raise vital funds for current and future creative projects. Based on the 1969 novel by Melvyn...