I love a good laugh, me. Things that make me laugh until I feel dizzy include a joke about the Pope and a bloke called Dave, a video of a Brummy toddler doing the ice bucket challenge, and Rik the People’s Poet from The Young...
Read MoreThese days, grime is a music genre, the sound of urban Britain. But back in 1979 it had no such cultural connotations. Grime was the stuff that working men scrubbed from their skin after a shift at the factory, at the furnace,...
Read MoreTake some raw material. Manipulate it, reshape it. Then stand back and consider what you’ve made. That’s what Henry Higgins does with Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s celebrated satire of class and manners,...
Read MoreIt’s a long time since I’ve seen anyone wearing a snake belt, but when the poet Roger McGough takes to the Liverpool Playhouse stage wearing just such an accessory, it turns out to be merely the first disarming sensory flashback...
Read MoreYou think you know a place. After all, you’ve been there so many times before. You know its ins and outs, every inch of its physical dimensions. But more than that, you feel you know its essence, its nature. If a building can...
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