Having just got back from seeing Hypothermia, a production by ‘A Full Body and the Voice’ written and directed by Vanessa Brooks, I can honestly say that it’s one of […]
In Review: Dancing at Lughnasa (Lancaster Footlights)
Set two miles outside the Donegal village of Ballybeg in 1936, Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa is a sad play. And this sadness is rendered particularly poignant through dramatic irony: […]
1984 at The Dukes
Conrad Nelson’s 1984 at Lancaster’s Dukes gives the lie to the view that novels can never make great plays. In some ways, they may actually make for better theatre than […]
In Review: It Snows (Dukes Senior Youth Theatre)
In a February still down to below zero every night, with too-recent memories of trudging down the road with other similarly shapeless people, all avoiding the lethally icy pavements, it’s […]
In Review: Mixed Up North
Above: Rose Leslie, Asif Khan, Lorna Stuart and Stephanie Street in Mixed up North. Photo: Ian Tilton Out of Joint Out of Joint and the Octagon Theatre, Bolton Director: Max […]
In Review: Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls Based on stories by Damon Runyan Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School The actors and production team from the two Lancaster grammar schools are […]
In Review: Sabbat
The Story of the Trials of the Pendle Witches The Dukes, Lancaster Writer: Richard Shannon Director: Amy Leach Designer: Miriam Nabarro With its root in historical fact, together with much […]
Dukes Season Launch (Tuesday Jan. 13, 2009)
In an informal, upbeat early-evening launch, Dukes Director Joe Sumsion and new Producer Julie Brown tempted us all with snippets of what we could look forward to in Winter, Spring […]
Othello (Lancaster University Drama Group)
If you’ve never seen it before, Othello is a great play, all about identity, ethnicity, gender relations – and, of course, misplaced trust and consequent jealousy. The ‘green-eyed monster’ looms […]
The Drawer Boy
by Michael Healey Farnham Maltings (in association with Theatre Passe Muraille and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) The Drawer Boy is the story of Morgan (Ian Blower) and Angus (Mick Stroebel), World […]