What Happened to Agnes is an unfolding mystery from singer and storyteller, Nishla Smith, as she spins a tale told and retold, spanning three generations and two continents. The show opens to haunting piano notes, spiralling into the atmosphere. Tom...
There is nothing quite like watching a master at work. No matter what that work may be, when someone who loves what they are doing so completely it’s hard not to be captivated by their enthusiasm. Wes Peden is a master juggler. He holds a degree in...
Plaster Cast Theatre’s Sound Cistem puts trans right at the heart of the stage. The show, at Home as part of its Push Festival, made me feel every emotion possible, and I came away wanting to see it again, and feeling I had just witnessed one of the...
“And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” An Inspector Calls. Photo by Tristram Kenton It’s quite often overlooked that, as well as an...
“Mothers tell their kids this is a special day … on this day you’ll become a woman. All you have to do is – be brave.” Cuttin’ It by Charlene James is that very rare event that takes a multitude of subjects and condenses them into meaningful and...
“To die would be an awfully big adventure,” muses Peter Pan, uttering one of the most famous lines in J.M. Barrie’s story. “Don’t talk daft!” comes the abrupt Lancastrian rebuke from Christina’s Meehan’s mermaid princess. Quite right, too! Peter Pan...
The Slightly Annoying Elephant is the worst and funniest house guest rolled into one.He eats all the biscuits, hogs the TV, snores loudly, gets water all over the bathroom floor, breaks your bike and your bed, invites all his friends to join him and...
If I invited you to an evening out to watch 14 plays, what would you think? Marathon? Shut eye? Breakneck speed? Well, this production of ‘The Manchester Project at Christmas’, by the Manchester-based ‘Monkeywood’ theatre company, is exactly that...
For a show listed among the greatest American Musicals, Gypsy certainly doesn’t get staged nearly as often as it deserves. After an absence in the West End for 43 years it was famously revived in 2015 with Imelda Staunton as Mama Rose, a role that’s...
The trouble with zeitgeist drama is it goes out of date rather quickly. Right now, David Hare is probably in the middle of an earnest drama about the fallout of Brexit – but is that what people want from a night at the theatre? Given the current...
Moses Kabunga
Carmel Thomason
Liz Ratcliffe
Martin Thomasson
Steve Timms