Following a sell-out London run, the National Theatre’s radical reinterpretation of Macbeth goes on tour, arriving at the Lowry on 29 September 2018. Artistic director, Rufus Norris talks to Quays Life about anarchy, uncertainty and why the heart of...
After sitting through countless runs of Shakespeare’s history plays, former literary manager of the RSC Jeanie O’Hare worked out that the Bard wrote more lines for Queen Margaret than he did for King Lear. How could this be when most of us have...
School’s out for summer. The school should be empty. A desolate prison. No more rules. But wait, what’s that on the CCTV? A person, a spirit, a mystical creation? Something strange is happening at Abraham Moss School. Rules are broken, souls are...
More than 400 years on, Hamlet is still one of the most complex characters in English literature and one of the most coveted stage roles. In the last ten years we’ve seen David Tennant in the role with the RSC, and elsewhere star casting saw Jude...
Carmel Thomason