Author: Stephen Longstaffe
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York
The German traveller Paul Henzner, visiting London just before Shakespeare’s Globe opened, counted ‘above thirty’ heads of traitors on spikes on gate at the south end of London Bridge.
Review: Chester Mystery Plays, Chester Cathedral
Most of the surviving mystery plays come from the North.
Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night, HOME, Manchester
It’s now a cliché that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Review: Mary Shelley – The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
Her mother, the pioneer radical and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, died after giving birth to her and young Mary Godwin grew up having to pass the room she died in every day.
Review: Hard Times, The Dukes, Lancaster
It’s hard to imagine a Dickens novel as a stage play.
Review: Simon Schama, Manchester Literature Festival
Simon Schama is the kind of historian I want to be when I grow up.
Review: Clown Fest, Manchester
Before I went to Clown Fest I thought there were two kinds of clown: kiddy clowns and scary clowns.
Theatre Review: The Island, The Dukes, Lancaster
The origins of The Dukes’ latest two-hander production of The Island are legendary.
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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