To my everlasting chagrin, I never saw Peter Brook’s famous 1970 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in a white box with trapezes. It was ground-breaking at the time and, as everyone is a thief in theatre, the...
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It was a cold, damp evening when I set off to Opera North’s revival of Benjamin Britten’s A...
Read MoreCaroline Clegg, the founder and driving force behind the award-winning Feelgood Theatre, would be the last to deny that the company has had its ups and down over the years since the first show in 1994. “It’s nearly killed me off...
Read MoreThe passion, heart and indomitable spirit of adventure in all of Feelgood’s work has made them a vital part of Manchester’s independent theatre scene since their very first show more than 20 years ago. Since...
Read MoreShakespeare North Playhouse is a new theatre in Prescot, a small town nine miles east of Liverpool whose main distinguishing feature (in my mind, at least) is that I went to college there. Not any more. Prescot is now home to a...
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