Articles relating to: Stephen Longstaffe
Book Review – Seaside Special: Postcards from The Edge, edited by Jenn Ashworth
Last night my wife couldn’t sleep so I read her a story. Then I had to read her another one because the first one wasn’t conducive to restful dreams.
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, York
The German traveller Paul Henzner, visiting London just before Shakespeare’s Globe opened, counted ‘above thirty’ heads of traitors on spikes on gate at the south end of London Bridge.
Review: Chester Mystery Plays, Chester Cathedral
Most of the surviving mystery plays come from the North.
Review: Long Day’s Journey into Night, HOME, Manchester
It’s now a cliché that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Review: Mary Shelley – The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere
Her mother, the pioneer radical and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, died after giving birth to her and young Mary Godwin grew up having to pass the room she died in every day.
Review: Hard Times, The Dukes, Lancaster
It’s hard to imagine a Dickens novel as a stage play.
Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2017
Despite our hopes that 2017 would be a marked improvement on the turbulent 2016, this year came with more bumps, twists and turns than the Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. But, as usual, it was an excellent year for bookworms and the good reads kept on coming.
Review: Simon Schama, Manchester Literature Festival
Simon Schama is the kind of historian I want to be when I grow up.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
The Northern Soul Awards 2018 took place at the stunning Manchester Cathedral on November 15. Here’s our list of winners, along with the Highly Commended and Special Mentions for each category. Congratulations!
https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/the-2018-awards/the-2018-winners/
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The Northern Soul Poll
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