Director William Friedkin is often portrayed as an erratic genius. Heâs made some amazing films (The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA) and some outright turkeys (Jade, The Guardian). But the film which most people associate with his name is...
Disney on Ice is back on tour with its biggest show yet, celebrating 100 Years of Magic. âI thought weâd have to go to Disneyland for this!â says my 7-year-old theatre buddy, wide-eyed as Mouse-ter of Ceremonies Mickey Mouse and his sweetheart...
âItâs True, Itâs True, Itâs Trueâ is a remarkable portrayal of Artemisia Gentileschiâs experiences during a trail in 17th century Italy. Born in Rome to Orazio Gentileschi and Prudentia Montone, Artemisia was a prodigious painter who, as it now...
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...
Steve Timms
Carmel Thomason
Moses Kabunga
Martin Thomasson
Liz Ratcliffe
Georgina Wells
Lorraine Worsley-Carter