The 50th anniversary of Live Theatre, Newcastle, last year, embraced the concept of the rehearsed reading — a rare privilege for a playwright to share their work before it’s finished. The writer uses the reaction of the cast and the audience to further develop their imagined world and characters. The audience gets an exclusive preview of …
Earlier this month I read with interest news of the freak storms passing through the US states of Utah and Nevada which brought about an unprecedented invasion of tumbleweed. Helpless residents became prisoners in their own homes as thousands of bone dry plants piled up against their doors and windows, preventing entry or exit. Time, …
Sunday afternoon found me on a heathery knoll above a seething pond. “Frogs,” hissed the only other human occupant under her breath (we’d been told to be quiet, an order clearly unheeded in the water). “Mating.” Amorously alive, the turbulent pond groaned and quacked above the birdsong. First rule of theatrical presentations in the open …
I can’t remember my dad not having a beard. But I know he didn’t have one for the first eight-or-so years of my life And I can also tell you the day he decided to grow one (well, not the actual date, but the happenings thereof). It was in 1983-ish and in his role as …
Artist and comic, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) was in Gateshead this afternoon (March 15) to join forces with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith and unveil the Baltic Open Submission exhibition. The group exhibition features the work of 104 North-East-based self-taught and hobbyist artists and includes painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics, film, and installation pieces. It opens …
The Thick Of It is a British sitcom that lifted the lid on the inner workings and backroom hustles of the Government, as imagined by creator and chief writer Armando Iannucci. The show was first broadcast in 2005 when New Labour were in power and had gifted the term Spin Doctor to the world at …
North East rock icons Mark Knopfler and Brian Johnson team up with the region’s latest local hero, Sam Fender, in a new documentary series airing this spring. Dire Straits star Mark and AC/DC frontman Brian are the faces of Sky Arts show Music Legends. And the second programme sees Brit award winner Sam take the …
‘Funeral van drops coffin’. Even today, the rather sobering headline still beggars belief. But it happened. And I was there. Almost. Back in the day — when there was barely room to move in the newsroom, 10 reporters were chasing every story and exclusives were like gold dust — it was difficult to make your …
Bloke pops his head round the door of the gents’ during the interval. “Goodness,” he chortles. “There’s as many in here as on the stage.” A lot can be drawn from that observation. The opera-going demographic does lean towards the generation for whom the loo is half time ‘must’ (although there were young heads in …
March 15; that’s the Ides of March, and an immediate clue to one of the events that occurred on this historically troubled day which include: 44BC The assassination of Julius Caesar 1877 The first ever official cricket test match was played, in Melbourne, between Australia and England (with Australia winning by 45 runs) …
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