Museum of Austerity, coming to Newcastle after showings in London and Manchester, and after winning an international award, promises to leave audiences profoundly moved. First, though, they might be scratching their heads. It’s not a play, although the making of it did require actors; nor is it a film although it does involve moving images. …
It’s quite likely that when the time comes to reflect on theatre shows that made an impact in 2024, Night Classes — memorable for being unusual and innovative — will be in the mix. That’s fortuitous because after a couple of performances at Arc in Stockton at the end of March, it’s due for a …
Hurry and keep your fingers crossed if you want to see The Wizard of Oz at the Theatre Royal because it has been what Andrew Lloyd Webber calls ‘Harrisoned’. “I don’t know if that’s a compliment but I’ll take it,” says Michael Harrison, the Wallsend-born producer of the show, having shared the great lord of …
How might the Brontë sisters have sounded and behaved if they’d been equipped with a 21st Century mindset? Sarah Gordon’s award-winning play, premiered at the National Theatre in a co-production with Northern Stage, directed by the latter’s Natalie Ibu, takes that unspoken question and runs with it to hilarious effect. Thus you get Victorian women …
Special consideration has to be given to an artist who reckoned he spent about a third of his life in semi-darkness. It was a miner’s lot but Oliver Kilbourn endured it uncomplainingly and dedicated many of his daylight hours to standing at an easel, recording what those half-lit subterranean hours were like. “I couldn’t express …
In this busy awards season it would be remiss to overlook the success of a play which emerged from research into young fatherhood by a Newcastle University academic. Father Unknown, co-created by Dr Michael Richardson, senior lecturer in human geography, and freelance theatre maker Jonah York, lifted the prize for best online production at The …
“Bella Reay, born in Cowpen, centre forward for Blyth Spartans Ladies (1917-1919) and England… scored 133 goals in one season and was part of the team which went on to win the Munitionettes’ Cup in May 1918.” With that phenomenal tally, you do wonder whether defence existed as a footballing concept a century ago. But …
Martin Green, Sheffield-born composer and celebrated folk musician, well remembers his brass band “epiphany”… the start of a journey that will bring him back to Tyneside in May. It came after he’d moved to Pathhead, a village south of Edinburgh not far from the National Mining Museum Scotland. “They had a brass festival and I …
The National Trust’s Wallington estate is due for some valuable TV exposure when a new Channel 4 series starts on April 8. Over eight episodes of Our Dream Farm, hosted by Matt Baker, viewers will follow the fortunes of seven would-be tenants of a vacant farm on the Northumberland estate. Each will undertake tasks, present …
When James Lowther, head of visual arts for The Maltings (Berwick) Trust, visited Matilda Bevan’s studio near Hexham, Northumberland, he asked which artists had influenced her. Immediately she mentioned Thomas Hennell so plans were laid for an exhibition in Berwick’s Granary Gallery that would include his work and her artistic responses to it. There could …
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