Author: Chris Wallis
Review: Canto, Manchester
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” says Hamlet. The older I get the more I think, “Hamlet, how right you were.”
Theatre Review: Mother Courage and Her Children, Albion Electric Warehouse
Red Ladder’s production of Mother Courage is like an amazing curry: it’s very good at the time but even better the day after.
Review: Afternoon Tea, The Victoria and Albert Hotel, Manchester
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky received the Nobel prize for economics for showing that people did not necessarily make rational decisions.
Theatre Review: The Habit of Art, York Theatre Royal
What have Gypsy Rose Lee, the legendary queen of burlesque, the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten got in common?
Food Review: Afternoon Tea, The Lowry Hotel, Salford
Afternoon tea is the new lunch, at least it is at The Lowry Hotel. In what could be a Brexit-inspired assertion of National Standards, they’ve abolished that continental invention, the two-hour lunch – except on Sundays, of course – and brought back Afternoon Tea.
Theatre Review: Gulliver’s Travels, Queen’s Park, Bolton
Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels to ‘vex the populace’. Elizabeth Newman put it on to please them. Elizabeth Newman won.
Review: Romeo & Juliet, Heaton Park
Caroline Clegg has done it before. Although she enjoys a career in opera and music, she returns to Manchester’s Heaton Park every year and mounts a summer show.
Theatre Review: Astley’s Astounding Adventures, New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
“Bye ‘eck,” said the man sitting next to me. “Ah’ve seen some stuff ‘ere, but that were fantastic!”
Theatre Review: Macbeth, Rose Theatre, York
Up betimes and to York with a cushion to catch the matinee of Macbeth by Will Shakespeare, performed in the new open-air Rose Theatre by Clifford’s Tower.
Theatre Review: The Three Musketeers, Williamson Park, Lancaster
I’m not going to beat about the bush, I am thoroughly biased.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Are you an individual or an organisation based in the North of England? Why don’t you come to this year’s Northern Soul Awards? It’ll be a brilliant evening – 15th November at Manchester Cathedral. Tickets available here: https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/buy-tickets/
The Northern Soul Poll
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