Northen Broadsides’ production of Blake Morrison’s new play We are Three Sisters, directed by Barrie Rutter, which focusses on the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte as young adults, […]
In Review: The Price
At the end of his script of The Price, Arthur Miller unusually includes a Production Note: “A fine balance of sympathy should be maintained in the playing of the roles […]
In Review: Cabaret
The cast of Cabaret, this year’s joint musical show from students of Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School. Photo: John Charles Taylor (www.jctaylor.co.uk) Liza Minelli and Michael […]
In Review: Children of Killers
While many of those of us in Europe may think of genocide in Rwanda as something that was over and done with 16 years ago, put to rest with the […]
In Review: Quicksand
Curtis Cole as Leo and Cristina Catalina as Elka in Quicksand Produced by The Dukes and Theatre by the Lake, written by Zosia Wand and directed by Joe Sumsion, Quicksand […]
In Review: Chess
The huge amount of information on the internet about Chess shows that critical reception of this 1980s musical has been mixed. Despite going along with an open mind and in […]
In Review: Hypothermia
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: […]
In Review: Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War The Dukes Review by Jane Sunderland Steeped in irony, Joan Littlewood’s Oh! What a Lovely War, a musical dramatisation of the events and development of […]
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 […]