Georgina WellsAfter seven months with no live theatre, it felt like a miracle to be part of the audience that gathered outside The Lowry on a dark October evening to watch Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show. Imitating the Dog’s new touring work – created with the...
Hazel RoyDirector, Hazel Roy has worked with Thailand’s Moradokmai Theatre Community for over a decade. Much has changed over that time and, as her recent visit shows, the Community never fails to surprise, creating an irresistible draw that has her...
Carmel ThomasonThe struggle of the Luddites against mechanisation fuelling the Industrial Revolution is often used to teach us, change is inevitable and resistance to it is futile. Both statements have their truths. But is there another truth we still often...
Nathaniel Hall contracted HIV when he lost his virginity aged 16. Fifteen years on he’s written a play, ‘First Time’ about his experience. How did you find out you were HIV positive? I got ill while on holiday with my parents. I was 16-years-old and...
Claire Gaydon’s See Through was voted by Time Out as one of the top 10 weirdest shows at Edinburgh Fringe. The one-woman show examines identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. Quays Life meets Claire ahead of her performance...
Activist and performer, Lilith Cristina and producer Lowri Evans, talk about When it Breaks it Burns, the true story of high school protests in Brazil. When it Breaks it Burns tells the extraordinary true story of the high school occupations of 2015...
JB Shorts marks its 10th anniversary with a special REloaded programme of six favourite short plays and some top name casting in Richard Hawley (Coronation Street’s Johnny Conor), Sean Ward (Corrie’s Callum Logan), Arthur Bostrom (‘Allo...
“Of all the parts I’ve done in my career, this is probably the biggest.” Former Hollyoaks star, Chris Fountain talk to Quays Life about taking on the iconic role of Charlie Babbitt in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Rain Man...
Following a successful run with Golem in 2015, the award-winning 1927 return to HOME as an Associate Company with another darkly comic, surreal take on the modern world. First seen in 2010, ‘The Animals and Children Took to the Streets’ still feels...
Actor David Tomlinson is recognised around the world as the classic English gent. His meeting with Walt Disney led to immortalising roles as Mr Banks in ‘Mary Poppins’ and Professor Emelius Browne in ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’. But for Tomlinson the...
