Flo, the most junior of doctors, wearing her scrubs, already weary, stressed, overloaded with information and feeling out of her depth, excluded from case conferences by her white-coated seniors, is in need of a night’s rest, to take it all in, to...
The Lowry saw the transformation into the present day of a truly great female character in Cordelia Lynn’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler. This play asks what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. Holly Race...
Comedian and musical star, Jason Manford comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in a brand-new UK Tour of the Tony Award winning musical Curtains. We caught up with Jason to chat about the show, and how he finds life in musical theatre compared to his...
London-based Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Phosphoros Theatre, depict autobiographical stories of migration and cultural integration in ‘Pizza Shop Heroes’, on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival. A cast of four male refugee actors (and one female...
Elysium Theatre return to the north west with the Northern premiere of their production of Athol Fugard’s 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 Shakespeare’s 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 don’t know them. Instructions in an envelope explain that you’re now a Game Show. You’re either the Host, a Team Captain, the Stage Manager or a contestant. This was...
“I hope you have not become robots but humanised” (or in Cocteau’s native tongue “J’espère que vous n’êtes pas devenu des robots mais humanisé”) comes the call from the grave. This was Jean Cocteau’s message filmed in 1962 – a...
‘What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine’ (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1). While we may be familiar with many lines from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure most of us are less familiar with the play. Quays Life talks to RSC Artistic Director...
Martin Thomasson
Liz Ratcliffe
Carmel Thomason
Georgina Wells
Moses Kabunga
Lorraine Worsley-Carter