Nothing about this album suggests that it’s a debut. Shaking Hand’s eponymous introductory shot is so assured it sounds as if an awful lot of groundwork has preceded its appearance. As it happens – ...
There are many things that drew me to re-imagining Noel Coward's The Rat Trap, an early play from the author of such enduring ...
New writing takes many forms: this is one of the glories of contemporary British performance. One of these is the shared narrative, a style pioneered decades ago by Irish playwrights such as Brian ...
From his sickbed, after a nervous breakdown during basic training for the army, the 18-year-old Noel Coward started churning ...
Irish trio of accordion, voice, fiddle and piano. The voice belongs to Méabh Begley, from Kerry’s prominent musical family – ...
On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...
On a dank January evening in St Albans, there seemed little sign of life or excitement on the streets. To reach my ...
When news first filtered through that the Scouse comedian John Bishop’s marital woes were going to be turned into a film, my brain lazily filed its director’s name under the wrong Bradley: Whitford, ...
One pure sonofabitch 45. The record to put them high in the national charts. Top five at least.” In October 1976, the weekly music paper Sounds was unequivocal about Eddie and the Hot Rods’ “Teenage ...
There is nothing to compare with the visceral experience of hearing a massed choir – in this case the 230-strong combined ...
It’s more than a decade since Opera North had a new production of The Marriage of Figaro, and 30 years since the one before that had its premiere, so it’s certainly time for a fresh look at it. And ...
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