Author: Chris Wallis
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.
Read the full story..Review: Cotton Panic! at Manchester International Festival
Upper Campfield Market in Manchester’s Castlefield is a great space.
Read the full story..Review: Treasure Island, The Dukes, Williamson Park, Lancaster
Williamson Park in Lancaster is one of the most beautiful parks in the country.
Read the full story..Review: The Father, Oldham Coliseum
Old age is not for sissies, as Bette Davis famously said, but it was a relatively rare commodity until recently.
Read the full story..Review: Persuasion, Royal Exchange, Manchester
There’s a line in this show that encapsulates both the successes and challenges of the production.
Read the full story..Review: Indique, West Didsbury, Manchester
Name your ten best Indian restaurants in Manchester. This and That for value for money and good cooking, obvs, and…actually they’re pretty much all the same.
Read the full story..The book that changed my life: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
I read the book that changed my life, the one I can’t stop telling people about, last year.
Read the full story..Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Bolton Octagon
I arrive at the theatre something of a Brontë virgin, having never read any of the sisters’ books (I know, you’re appalled, but I’m a child of the 60s and I did science at school and university – blame The Two Cultures).
Read the full story..Review: Cyrano, Northern Broadsides, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Cyrano de Bergerac had a very big nose. So big in fact that Edmund Rostand immortalised it in his 1897 comic masterpiece, written almost 250 years after his eponymous hero’s death.
Read the full story..Review: The Angel of the House, Hope Mill Theatre, Ancoats, Manchester
The Angel in the House is a popular Victorian poem – a terrible set of verse – extolling the virtues of the submissive woman who exists solely to cater for her husband’s needs.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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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