Carmel ThomasonCharlie Cook’s Favourite Book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is many stories in one. Charlie loves reading. Especially books about pirates. But his sister hates it – it’s boring! Can Charlie convince her that reading is fun? Perhaps if...
Following its 2020 online festive show, Humbug and 2021 Christmas show, Not So Ugly Sisters, Wrongsemble Theatre Company return to Waterside, Sale with a musical re-imagining of Snow Queen. Writer and director, Elvi Piper tells us about staging a...
Natasha Tripney talks to author, Malorie Blackman and director, Esther Richardson about The Pilot Theatre’s new stage adaptation of Noughts and Crosses coming to The Lowry. What inspired you to create the Noughts and Crosses series? Malorie...
Family theatre company Stuff & Nonsense whose live shows include The Gingerbread Man, The Elves and the Shoemaker and Goldilocks & The Three Bears, return to Waterside this Christmas with a new show, The Man Who Wanted to be a Penguin...
Alexandria SlaterAlexandria Slater joins the audience for a live Q&A with acclaimed Salford director, Mike Leigh Salford-born auteur, Mike Leigh, is one of UK’s most internationally recognised and critically acclaimed film-makers working today. A seven-time...
Niamh MelodyFollowing their unique shot-for-shot stage recreation of George A. Romero’s classic 1968 zombie movie – Night of The Living Dead™ – Remix, imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse have joined forces again for a radical adaptation...
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...
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...
Writer and director, Greg Mosse talks about his new show Lady of Jazz coming to Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. What is Lady of Jazz about? Lady of Jazz is about a poor girl with mixed-race parentage who, in the 1920s in New Orleans, grows up to be 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...