Carmel ThomasonIt is easy to feel jaded as a reviewer, particularly when a play you’ve seen countless times pops up again on the season brochure. When it comes to refreshing an old favourite, star casting works. In Manchester we’ve recently seen Jodie Prenger...
Writer and director, Mike Leigh is known for allowing the story to grow from its characters. Abigail’s Party is one of his most famous works, because what he captured in the interactions of these five neighbours is a glimpse, not just of 70’s...
Where did the time go? That’s the central question of Shirley Valentine. For anyone in the audience who remembers the 1980s, it’s a question we’re all asking – not least on hearing Jodie Prenger is in the lead role. ‘She must be playing it younger,’...