Ten grand, a full production of your play on a North East stage and a London transfer within 12 months. Little wonder more than 700 people tabled their scripts and stories for consideration by the assembled panel of judges for the first Richard Jenkinson Commission. Launched by Laurels Theatre in Whitley Bay in the summer …
There’s excitement in the air at Live Theatre. A chunky run of staged readings of Seconds Away! — a new play with songs, created by Jimmy Nail and Ian La Frenais — kicked off last night (Feb 6), offering sell-out crowds at the Newcastle theatre a first taste of a project, which has been five …
David Almond and Julia Green have lived on their quiet Tynemouth street since November 2022 and if ever a place could be called a house of stories it’s surely theirs. Bookending the upstairs landing are studies — one each, with desk, writerly paraphernalia and personal flourishes. Julia’s has a bookcase with David’s published titles and …
For artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard, it was a year spent in ‘wonderland’. Ingrid, appointed as English Heritage’s first visual art fellow, was presented with the opportunity of a year-long fellowship at Belsay Hall in Northumberland. Spread out before her was a medieval castle and an impressive 20 acres of gardens, including the location’s atmospheric …
Railway sleepers from the River Tyne and jay feathers found in Northumberland can become art materials as potent as paint or pastel in the right hands. This much is clear in the second exhibition curated by Jed Buttress at Newcastle Arts Centre as part of a project called Brass Tacks. The first, in September, was …
Outside the North Shields pub on a grey morning, Earl John Charlton is waiting — short-sleeves, cold beer close by. You’d bet confidently on the snow which will soon fall (not thickly, but snow is snow). “Honestly, you get used to it,” laughs Earl as we go inside and I head for the fire. “You …
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