The advent of British Science Week has inspired an expansion of the programme of activities at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle. Running from March 9-17 (so a little more than a week if you’re being picky), the city centre attraction has made sure there’s something on the agenda for all ages. From an eye-popping …
Hercules reborn as a self-obsessed Peterlee strongman seems a dead cert to be one of the highlights of ClassicsFest, a new festival blowing the dust off ancient Greek and Roman literature. A key part of the new festival was a challenge to North East writers to produce a modern version of one of the monologues …
Every long running stage show has its ups and downs, and nights where nothing seems to go right on stage, but in the case of The Importance Of Being… Earnest? the wheels come off with alarming regularity. In fact during every single performance of the show the lead actor inexplicably misses their cue, and for …
A trio of North East writers can be found at the centre of Live Theatre’s 2024-25 season. The Bounds, a co-production with the Royal Court by Northumberland writer Stewart Pringle; the first stage adaptation of cult horror film Saint Maud by Sunderland writer Jessica Andrews; and Middlesbrough writer Ishy Din’s Champion about Muhammad Ali’s historic …
It’s World Book Week and where better to celebrate than Seven Stories where the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho, is visiting today (March 6). Tomorrow, which is World Book Day, there will be 20-minute Storytimes sessions for young children and on Friday Richard O’Neill will decide which school has won a competition to secure his presence …
It was while on honeymoon in 2018 that Rachel Stockdale first had the idea for Fat Chance. Arriving at a restaurant in Lake Bled with her new husband, she had allowed herself the small luxury of eating carbs again after months of dieting to ensure she could zip up her wedding dress. “A table for …
Five of the six candidates vying to be the first elected mayor of a huge swathe of the North East attended their first hustings at St Chad’s College, Durham, on Monday night. It is reported about 100 people were there to hear them put their case, discussing issues including transport, green energy, schools, housing and …
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir will mark the 300th anniversary of Bach’s St John Passion with a performance in the King’s Hall, Newcastle University. The celebrated work, telling of the last days of Jesus Christ, was first performed on Good Friday in 1724 at St Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where the composer had just been …
Easily the most enthusiastic speaker at the launch of Creative Central NCL, Newcastle’s new creative zone, was Jodie Robertson, not an artist or even employed in the cultural sector. It wasn’t that there was a lack of enthusiasm in the room (Alphabetti Theatre, as so often, was buzzing). But Jodie, client services manager at the …
Success for a writer rarely arrives like an inter-city express. More often, if it arrives at all, it’s had a clunky journey beset by unscheduled stoppages, the literary equivalent of sheep on the line. The metaphor is appropriate for one who grew up in a former station master’s house beside the memory of a railway …
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