Monthly Archives: February 2015
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Read the full story..Theatre review: Where Do Little Birds Go?
In the 1960s, Lisa Prescott was kidnapped and held for more than four days in an East Ham flat by gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. She was kept there as a sex slave for an escaped murderer, Frank ‘The Mad Axeman’ Mitchell.
Read the full story..Review: Elbow at O2 Apollo, Manchester
Elbow kicked off their modest number of February UK dates with a four-day residency at the O2 Apollo last week.
Read the full story..Review: Educating Rita, Liverpool Playhouse
In Frank’s vast oval cave filled with books and booze, Scouse Rita lets the air in. But you know, something’s changed about our Rita, she knows what she wants more than before. She’s more in control.
Read the full story..Review: Scuttlers at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
Rona Munro is a playwright of some note, having won a number of major accolades including a Writers’ Guild award for best play of 2014. So it is something of a coup that she has turned her attention to recreating a seldom explored part of Manchester’s history: the original youth cult and gang culture of the ‘scuttlers’.
Read the full story..What’s On in February – Music
Ooh it’s been a bit chilly up in the North lately, so we’ve rounded up some musical treats to warm your cockles and cochleas.
Read the full story..What’s On in February – Theatre
There’s an embarrassment of theatre riches across the North of England this month.
Read the full story..Griffin Dunne on making An American Werewolf in London
For better or worse, horror films are a staple diet for many kids. Whether you’ve been scarred for life by Jaws or so enamoured with The Exorcist that you’ve clamoured for more, they trigger a response in a viewer unlike any other genre.
Read the full story..It’s a class thing: Los Angeles and Leeds by bus
The suited man sitting opposite was embarrassed. Catching my eye, he announced, so others could hear, that his car was being repaired. It seemed beneath his dignity to be on the bus.
Read the full story..Small Talk: North West Film Archive
Have you ever wondered how the town you live or work in has changed over the years?
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