Flo, the most junior of doctors, wearing her scrubs, already weary, stressed, overloaded with information and feeling out of her depth, excluded from case conferences by her white-coated seniors, is in need of a nightâs rest, to take it all in, to...
The Lowry saw the transformation into the present day of a truly great female character in Cordelia Lynnâs adaptation of Henrik Ibsenâs play Hedda Gabler. This play asks what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. Holly Race...
âI hope you have not become robots but humanisedâ (or in Cocteauâs native tongue “J’espĂšre que vous nâĂȘtes pas devenu des robots mais humanisĂ©”) comes the call from the grave. This was Jean Cocteauâs message filmed in 1962 â a...
It has been called Shakespeareâs problematic comedy and, even if the only information you had about it was the title, itâs not hard to see why. The idea of calling a woman a shrew is bad enough, without adding the idea of taming her into the story...
A word of warning: if youâve got a flight booked anytime soon, I wouldnât recommend going to see the accident did not take place. YESYESNONOâs show â acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe and now on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival â uses the premise...
Kimberley Sykes is clearly on a mission to take control of theatre in the northwest. Her production of Maxine Peakeâs Beryl has just opened at Boltonâs Octagon theatre, and now here she is, directing the RSCâs touring production of As You Like It...
Receiving a programme presented as a school exercise book truly set the scene for Emma Riceâs second production with her Wise Children theatre company. Malory Towers. Photo by Steve Tanner As we file into the auditorium, we are minded that we are...
Yorkshire cyclist, Beryl Burton (1937-1996), has a strong claim to being the greatest sporting hero Great Britain has ever produced and yet, as Kimberley Sykesâs production of Maxine Peakeâs biographical piece makes us painfully aware, she remains...
Every now and again an event comes along that stops you dead in your tracks. It either shifts your perception of what you thought was true; or reminds you that youâve taken something for granted for too long. On this night, in Manchester, that event...
This year, HOMEâS Orbit Festival explores the âprevailing divideâ between people and how it can be conquered. I doubt that thereâs a show in the programme that could be more joyfully effective at bringing an audience together than Paul OâDonnellâs...
Martin Thomasson
Liz Ratcliffe
Moses Kabunga
Carmel Thomason
Georgina Wells
Lorraine Worsley-Carter