Author: Cathy Crabb
Art of Class: Bethan Kitchen
In a new series, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb talks to working class creative people, some already established, some emerging, and some setting their stall out to create more work for others. This week it’s writer Bethan Kitchen whose play Shoefiti opens at Salford Arts Theatre later this month.
Review: Brief Encounter, The Lowry, Salford
It’s 1938 and weekly shopper Laura rests her weary court shoes at the station café before the train home.
Review: Break in Transmission, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
Curator Steven Gartside describes Break in Transmission, the current exhibition at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery, as “the pleasures and pitfalls of language, communication and meaning”.
Review: How To Be Champion – An Evening with Sarah Millican, Manchester Literature Festival
“I don’t care if people don’t find me funny. I know I’m funny because it’s the job I do.”
Bi-polar unicorns and claustrophobic clowns: Northern Soul attends Thought Bubble in Leeds
Picture this. It’s your first day at a new school. You’re a bit scared but you have an imagination the size of a meteor and loads of great ideas to make and draw worlds you want to share with your new pals.
Review: Cosmic Scallies, Royal Exchange, Manchester
What I miss about no longer being on Facebook is Jackie Hagan.
Review: The Ruck, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
“Just wait and I’ll get the others, they’re all here,” says Lily Clark, forward for the Batley Bulldogs Girls Rugby League team as I chat to her outside the Lawrence Batley Theatre before the premiere of The Ruck.
Northern Soul chats to director Joyce Branagh about new writing, girls rugby and fighting spirit
Director Joyce Branagh is working on what sounds like the perfect premise for an ensemble piece.
Review and Photo Gallery: Cotton Clouds Festival, Saddleworth
A drunk woman gesticulates at me. “The back of the line for beer is there.”
Review: IRIS and Tim Peaks Diner, The Lowry, Salford
I’d enjoyed a cool and heady journey on my way to the taster event for The Lowry’s biennial Week 53 festival.
Freerange Comedy Festival at Brewery Arts Centre Kendal
Comedy fans who can’t make Harry and Meghan’s big day at Windsor Castle can experience a ‘Royal Wedding’ with a difference in Kendal this May at Freerange Comedy Festival, hosted by Brewery Arts Centre.
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