Monthly Archives: October 2014
A Farewell to Arms: imitating the dog talks about its new adaptation
Northern Soul’s Rich Jevons talks to imitating the dog’s artistic director Andrew Quick about the adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the centenary year of World War One.
Read the full story..Review: Frank Cottrell Boyce and Sean O’Brien at the MLF
The plucky short story has had a long and eventful history.
Read the full story..Review: Lip Service presents The Picture of Doreen Gray
Good writing is all about putting characters into testing situations. Same goes for great comedy.
Read the full story..A natural antidote to stress from Fleetneedles Forage
For millions working in 21st century Britain the office is the new coal face.
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Read the full story..Review: Simon Armitage at Manchester Cathedral
In the atmospheric setting of Manchester Cathedral, a large crowd gathers to hear the night’s sermon.
Read the full story..Northern Soul chats to John Bramwell from I Am Kloot
The Whisky Sessions, Manchester’s newest music festival, debuts at the Victoria Warehouse next month with I Am Kloot as a headliner. Karen Connolly reveals what else is in store and chats to Kloot frontman, John Bramwell.
Read the full story..Manchester Literature Festival Sermon with Audrey Niffenegger
Some books stay with you long after you have read them.
Read the full story..John Lydon in Conversation at The Albert Hall, Manchester
Since 1976, John Lydon has been using words and music to question the inhabitants of the corridors of power, those untutored in the rhythms of popular culture who tut-tutted at the so-called degenerative influence of music’s equivalent of TNT – punk rock – on the nation’s youth.
Read the full story..RSC Artistic Director Greg Doran talks to Northern Soul
Gregory Doran is passionate about Shakespeare. From his schoolteacher’s enthusiasm for the subject to becoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Doran is the boy most likely to succeed when it comes to putting on a good show.
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