Theatre Review: Murder on the Orient Express, The Lowry, Salford
You know that thing where you buy a new blue mini and all you see for days are new blue minis? Or...
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Author: Chris Wallis
Alice in Wonderland, The Dukes, Williamson Park, Lancaster
Full disclosure: my mother’s family had a wonderful old copy of Alice in Wonderland with the...
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Theatre Review: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
This is glorious. I don’t think I have ever laughed so much at a Shakespeare play, and I have...
Read MoreReview: Our Town, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play first performed in 1938 is an American classic – there’s always a production on somewhere. It’s famous as a paean to small town American life, but its revolutionary form and...
Read MoreReview: Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Bolton Octagon
It’s 1982 and Margaret Thatcher is just getting into her stride. In a bleak northern council estate work is scarce and school is boring, at least for 15-year-olds Rita and Sue, two girls with few prospects and less money. They...
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