Martin ThomassonKimberley Sykes is clearly on a mission to take control of theatre in the northwest. Her production of Maxine Peake’s Beryl has just opened at Bolton’s Octagon theatre, and now here she is, directing the RSC’s touring production of As You Like It...
Carmel ThomasonDirector Justin Audibert reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, 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...
Director, Kimberley Sykes talks about her playful and passionate version of Shakespeare’s 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...
Liz RatcliffeI was so looking forward to Macbeth at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. A female, Lucy Ellinson, was going to be playing the lead, and I thought that this would provide an exciting perspective on the play. I have seen many productions of...
Moses KabungaPhoebe Waller-Bridge is definitely flavour of the month. She’s an award winner. She has writing credits on the fantastically successful Killing Eve. Fleabag is now a hit BBC TV show in its own right and she’s co-written the next James Bond film, No...
Brian DonaldsonAs 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 “a stand-up show for 20-somethings who are trying...
Choreographer 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 Manchester’s Palace Theatre. Can you tell us more about Z Bo Jackson and where the idea came from...
London Classic Theatre opens its 2019 national tour of Harold Pinter’s dark comedy No Man’s 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...
Roundabout is a pop-up theatre from Paines Plough and Theatre Clwyd. The big, yellow dome, which seats 160 people, has previously stopped off at Eccles, Little Hulton and last year made its home in Ordsall Park. This year Roundabout visits Albert...
Paul ThomasonThe Jules Verne classic novel, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ is so well known that it’s only after reading the title of this new show multiple times you eventually realise something isn’t quite as expected. The addition of what appears at first...