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Art of Class: Bethan Kitchen
In a new series, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb talks to working class creative people, some already established, some emerging, and some setting their stall out to create more work for others. This week it’s writer Bethan Kitchen whose play Shoefiti opens at Salford Arts Theatre later this month.
Read the full story..Review: Brief Encounter, The Lowry, Salford
It’s 1938 and weekly shopper Laura rests her weary court shoes at the station café before the train home.
Read the full story..Bi-polar unicorns and claustrophobic clowns: Northern Soul attends Thought Bubble in Leeds
Picture this. It’s your first day at a new school. You’re a bit scared but you have an imagination the size of a meteor and loads of great ideas to make and draw worlds you want to share with your new pals.
Read the full story..Review: Cosmic Scallies, Royal Exchange, Manchester
What I miss about no longer being on Facebook is Jackie Hagan.
Read the full story..Review: The Ruck, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
“Just wait and I’ll get the others, they’re all here,” says Lily Clark, forward for the Batley Bulldogs Girls Rugby League team as I chat to her outside the Lawrence Batley Theatre before the premiere of The Ruck.
Read the full story..Northern Soul chats to director Joyce Branagh about new writing, girls rugby and fighting spirit
Director Joyce Branagh is working on what sounds like the perfect premise for an ensemble piece.
Read the full story..Review and Photo Gallery: Cotton Clouds Festival, Saddleworth
A drunk woman gesticulates at me. “The back of the line for beer is there.”
Read the full story..Review: IRIS and Tim Peaks Diner, The Lowry, Salford
I’d enjoyed a cool and heady journey on my way to the taster event for The Lowry’s biennial Week 53 festival.
Read the full story..Julie Hesmondhalgh talks Broadchurch, Brexit and the importance of theatre
It’s the final episode of Broadchuch tonight. If like Northern Soul you’ve been gripped by the last series of this superlative drama, that’s due in no small part to Julie Hesmondhalgh’s gripping portrayal of a rape victim.
Read the full story..Review: Jane Eyre, The Lowry, Salford
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is the original plain Jane, the poor, orphaned girl who is dealt a bad hand. If life was toast, Jane’s slipped off the plate and landed butter side down.
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