Elysium Theatre return to the north west with the Northern premiere of their production of Athol Fugardâs Playland, set in South Africa under the Apartheid regime. Carmel Thomason talks to co-founder and actor, Danny Solomon What is the story of...
Queens of Sheba is a tour de force. Four female actors play a multitude of characters that transport us to a world of fun, hope, observation and yearning. Tosin Alabi, Eshe Asante, Kokoma (koko) Kwaku and Elisha Robin thoroughly deserve that extra...
& Juliet is the cheeky, bold and exuberant story of what would happen if William Shakespeareâs Juliet had been penned not only by the bard himself, but with heaps of help and harassment from his wife, Anne Hathaway. Directed by Luke Sheppard (In...
Imagine being in a room. The room is filled with your peers. Broadly speaking you donât know them. Instructions in an envelope explain that youâre now a Game Show. Youâre either the Host, a Team Captain, the Stage Manager or a contestant. This was...
âI hope you have not become robots but humanisedâ (or in Cocteauâs native tongue “J’espĂšre que vous nâĂȘtes pas devenu des robots mais humanisĂ©”) comes the call from the grave. This was Jean Cocteauâs message filmed in 1962 â a...
âWhat’s mine is yours and what is yours is mineâ (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1). While we may be familiar with many lines from Shakespeareâs Measure for Measure most of us are less familiar with the play. Quays Life talks to RSC Artistic Director...
SICK! Festival 2019 invited artists to produce work which asks the question: what is the value of life? Baby Fever is the response from Contact Young Company, in which a group of young people explore what success looks like. Carmel Thomason chats to...
It has been called Shakespeareâs problematic comedy and, even if the only information you had about it was the title, itâs not hard to see why. The idea of calling a woman a shrew is bad enough, without adding the idea of taming her into the story...
A word of warning: if youâve got a flight booked anytime soon, I wouldnât recommend going to see the accident did not take place. YESYESNONOâs show â acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe and now on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival â uses the premise...
Sh!t Theatreâs Drink Rum With Expats is an alcohol fuelled cornucopia of corruption, devastation and political intrigue. This hour long dramatisation is fresh from its Edinburgh run and tells the tale of Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersoleâs...
Carmel Thomason
Moses Kabunga
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Georgina Wells