Alastair Michael reflects on the challenges of broadcasting theatre to cinema audiences on his trip to see War Horse at Manchester’s Odeon. War Horse has been one of the National Theatre’s most successful productions...
Read MoreDavid Thacker’s relationship with Shakespeare is a substantial one. He has directed 28 productions of the Bard. For the 29th, Thacker tackles Twelfth Night at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton with a refreshing 1930s twist....
Read MoreIn the Octagon, Bolton has a successful theatre generating its own productions and receiving touring shows. Sounds like any other theatre, right? Well, yes. But Bolton Octagon does something else; something that could be...
Read More“I’m going to continue,” Sir Nicholas Hytner declares, with some modesty. As yet there are no concrete plans, but it’s a relief to hear that he “will make theatre for a new company that will…find new ways of making...
Read MoreAn adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name, One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley’s marriage in the increasingly consumerist Britain of the 1960s. Or, in Howard’s words, “it is a play about...
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