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Take a handful of superb actors, a cracking script, and place them in a production that drives the dialogue forward at 100 miles an hour and you get this wonderfully mesmerising dip into 1980s workplace morality. The cast take us into the lives of the self-interested, manipulative but ultimately vulnera...
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Next Sunday (March 21) marks the anniversary of the fateful day in 1918 when the German army made an onslaught on the British soldiers in the rat-infested trenches of St Quentin.
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Having been drawn to Bolton Wanderers by my grandad and then later initiating my two sons into the throng, I’m an ideal target for a play which celebrates t’Trotters’ hold on folk.
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Originally written by CP Taylor in the late seventies and set in his adopted city of Newcastle upon Tyne, it’s apt that this latest production of And A Nightingale Sang was developed in the other Newcastle (Under Lyme - the one near Stoke).
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Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband is actually about a not-so-ideal husband who wants to hide his past. It is a witty play with plenty of clever one liners and the current expenses scandal makes the play relevant today.
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Wilder than Wilde himself, this frivolous piece of 19th century nonsense is resurrected for a 21st century audience by a sparkling adaptation, inventive direction and of course by Wilde's famous one-liners written with a pen dipped in vitriolic acid.
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Though Contact doesn’t seem to be producing much theatre of its own these days – a cause of regret to those who remember past glories – it is collaborating on original work with others.
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Wry, closely-observed and somewhat off the wall, this unfolding of a young couple’s relationship is packed with original and arresting ideas.
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You may already have noticed rising star Romola Garai, who played the role of the older Briony Tallis in the blockbuster movie Atonement. It's to her credit that she then chose to appear as Masha in this touring production of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
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Regular visitors Out Of Joint, the new writing theatre company, are back at the Library, this time with an interesting insight into the private life of Charles Dickens.
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