Interviews
Jez Dolan, stand-up, lecturer and expert on Polari, has joined forces with writer and tour guide, Joshua Val Martin to create Double-Ender, a fast-paced double bill of monologues sharing stories about Queer people in a rapidly changing Manchester...
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Jason Donovan talks family, Neighbours, creating the stage role of Tick/Mitzi in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert the Musical and returning for a third UK tour, this time as producer. Why is Priscilla the perfect post-lockdown show?“It’s...
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Peaceophobia is a new play performed in a car park that looks at Islamaphobia through the eyes of young British Pakistani men from a modified car club. Quays Life talks to writer Zia Ahmed to find out more. What is the idea behind Peaceophobia...
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Warsaw boxing champion, Tadeuz “Teddy” Pietryzkowsi was among the first prisoners transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940. Director and Screen writer, Maciej Barczewski tells how he brought Teddy’s biggest fight for...
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Actor, Piotr Głowacki talks about losing 20% of his body weight in preparation for his role as Polish boxing champion Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski
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Director Daniel Raggett talks about directing the theatrical debut of award-winning stars Emma Corrin and Nabhaan Rizwan in new play for the Instagram generation, Anna X. ANNA X – Joseph Charlton (playwright), Nabhaan Rizwan (Ariel), Emma...
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What would you do if you got the chance to meet your all-time hero? That’s what crossed Martin Kaye’s mind when he found himself performing in Las Vegas as Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet at the same time as his hero, Elton John was in...
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Richard Thomas, Olivier award-winning composer of Jerry Springer the Opera, is launching back into theatre life post lockdown, as part of Jonny Woo’s All Star Late Night Cabaret. He tells Quays Life why he was quick to join the call to cabaret...
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Martin Thomasson describes how lockdown encouraged him to rediscover his family’s past and write a collection of memoirs ‘Random Notes from Life’ When my Auntie Madge (my great aunt Madeleine) died, I was very sad; sadder than I’d...
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Dementia doesn’t care if you are a parent of a pauper, a prince or a celebrity. Actress, Shobna Gulati witnessed this first hand when her mum, Asha, was diagnosed with vascular dementia. In this deeply moving yet humorous memoir, a daughter sets out...
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Carmel Thomason
Martin Thomasson
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
