Author: Chris Wallis
Review: Little Red and The Big Bad Wolf, Z-arts, Manchester
I’ve just experienced a new kind of anxiety.
Review: Dick Whittington, Oldham Coliseum
It’s panto time again. ‘Oh no it isn’t!’ I hear you shout. ‘It’s only November.’ But like Christmas offers in the shops, panto seems to start earlier every year.
Review: (the fall of) The Master Builder, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Henrik Ibsen’s The Master Builder, published in 1892, begins with the arrival of a young woman, Hilde Wangel, in Halvard Solness’s office.
Review: All or Nothing, Storyhouse, Chester
Actors have a thing where, when they go to audition for a TV ad, they walk into the waiting room and find 20 people sitting there who look exactly like them.
Review: 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.
Review: Partition, West Yorkshire Playhouse
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” So says Malcolm of the Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth. If only the same could be said of Great Britain abandoning its Empire.
Review: Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Bolton Octagon
It’s 1982 and Margaret Thatcher is just getting into her stride.
Northern Soul chats to the brains behind Clown Fest about parody and performance
Mark Winstanley and Alice Robinson are a right pair of clowns. Everyone who knows them says so.
Review: Cotton Panic! at Manchester International Festival
Upper Campfield Market in Manchester’s Castlefield is a great space.
Review: Treasure Island, The Dukes, Williamson Park, Lancaster
Williamson Park in Lancaster is one of the most beautiful parks in the country.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
The Northern Soul Awards 2018 took place at the stunning Manchester Cathedral on November 15. Here’s our list of winners, along with the Highly Commended and Special Mentions for each category. Congratulations!
https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/the-2018-awards/the-2018-winners/
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The Northern Soul Poll
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