Monthly Archives: March 2020
Hamiltonic: The Gin Society, Manchester Cathedral
I was meant to attend The Gin Society do at Rochdale Town Hall but Storm Dennis put paid to that.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Alone in Berlin, York Theatre Royal
More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’
Read the full story..Win a signed copy of The Escape Plan by award-winning poet Henry Normal
Win a signed copy of The Escape Plan, the latest collection of poetry by award-winning writer, poet, TV and film producer Henry Normal.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: The Talented Mr Ripley, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
There’s a challenge to taking a story as well-known as Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley and making something fresh and new without losing the spark of the original.
Read the full story..Picture Gallery: Scarborough – A Day at the Seaside, Woodend, Scarborough
Oh, we do like to be beside the seaside.
Read the full story..“Just because someone’s fun, it doesn’t mean they’re not nefarious.” Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom talk about Greed
Steve Coogan’s film career has been a hit-and-miss affair.
Read the full story..Review: Utopias, The Whitworth, Manchester
For a time it seemed that Utopia had lost its currency.
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