WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE BOEING BOEING AT OLDHAM COLISEUM Classic French farce Boeing Boeing flies into Oldham from May 15 until June 6. Bachelor playboy Bernard has the perfect life – a swish Parisian bachelor pad and three...
Read MoreThere’s a thought in Susan Hill’s Howards End is on the Landing that I’ve never forgotten. In Hill’s meander through the books in her house, she muses on the importance of titles and concludes that many a...
Read MoreGood writing is all about putting characters into testing situations. Same goes for great comedy. Usually, the best stuff is made up of recognisable characters (albeit weird and wonderful ones) making choices which either...
Read MoreFor months after I read Sebastian Faulks’ novel Birdsong, I was haunted by feelings of claustrophobia. His retelling of the horrors experienced by the tunnellers during the First World War stayed with me to the extent that...
Read MoreAccording to writer Deborah McAndrew, her brief for this show from Northern Broadsides’s Barrie Rutter went something like “I want a play for the First World War Centenary in 2014, I want it to be called An August Bank Holiday...
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