Articles relating to: Alfred Searls
Theatre in Mind and Body
Theatre means different things to different people. Of course there is some common ground, upon which we all meet, and the individual perspective should always be open to change; nevertheless we are creatures of habit, and one of mine is to seek out the theatre of ideas.
Read the full story..Defying the Arrow of Time
There can be few places as profoundly lonely as the stage in a one man production.
Read the full story..That’s Where Danger Mouse Lives, That Is
Some experiences simply make you smile. If you’re lucky that smile won’t have been raised at someone else’s expense or require cynicism or guile to be unlocked.
Read the full story..Keen on the Bean
Chorlton has a coffee festival now. Twenty years ago, the chances of those words, being used in that precise order, would have been so astronomical that it would have required a computer of HAL 9000 proportions to calculate the odds.
Read the full story..Chorlton and The City of the Dead
In the city of the dead, life is to be found in abundance.
Read the full story..Red star in Manchester
It is 7.10am on April 12, 1961. Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin of the Soviet Air Force climbs into the tiny capsule a-top of the nascent soviet spacecraft, Vostok 1. Gagarin, the son of a carpenter and a milkmaid, is a volunteer who knows that many in his country’s space programme privately think he has no more than a 50 per cent chance of surviving this mission.
Read the full story..Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester
When I was about eight or nine years old I went on a school trip to the Manchester Liverpool Road Station, and I can still vividly recall the diminutive astonishment of class 3a upon learning that we were standing in the world’s first railway station.
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