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...
Read onDirector Justin Audibert reimagines Shakespeareâs comedy âThe Taming of the Shrewâ, in a new production for the RSC where the women hold the power. He talks to Quays Life about playing with conventions to turn gender on its head. RSC The Taming of...
Read onShakespeareâs play âAs You Like Itâ ends with the wedding of four couples, including Rosalind and Orlando, with the ceremony overseen by the God of Marriage, Hymen. But how do you go about depicting a god onstage? The answer for the Royal...
Read onDirector, Kimberley Sykes talks about her playful and passionate version of Shakespeareâs much-loved romantic comedy, As You Like It. What has influenced your thinking around the production? Kimberley: “I think a big thing which has influenced...
Read onAs someone who is about to enter her 30s, Emily Atack knows only too well about the contemporary pressures and expectations on those in their 20s. She describes her live tour of Talk Thirty To Me as âa stand-up show for 20-somethings who are trying...
Read onPlaywright Daniel Kanaber talks to Carmel Thomason about his new play Under Three Moons, produced by Manchester Theatre Company Box of Tricks and written after a terrifyingly macho stag-do: Without giving away any spoilers, what is the story of...
Read onChoreographer Bo Jackson talks to Quays Life about her new dance fusion theatre venture, the Z Bo Jackson Company, ahead of its gala night launch at Manchesterâs Palace Theatre. Can you tell us more about Z Bo Jackson and where the idea came from...
Read onLondon Classic Theatre opens its 2019 national tour of Harold Pinterâs dark comedy No Manâs Land at Oldham Coliseum Theatre. Quays Life catches-up with Michael Cabot, Director and Artistic Director of London Classic Theatre, to find out more about...
Read onMrs Lowry and Son tells the story of Salford artist, L.S. Lowryâs relationship with his controlling mother, Elizabeth. Carmel Thomason meets its stars, Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave. In the Lowry galleries a short film, made in 1957, runs on a...
Read onCircus duo, Tamsin Shasha and Maisy Taylor are another of the Lowryâs Week53 Festival successes. Their show âEverything I See I Swallowâ, which debuted at last yearâs festival, went on to win a Fringe First award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. Quays...
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