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 …
Nine o’clock on Tuesday morning at Newcastle Civic Centre and children from across the city are trooping in for a spot of opera to get the day off to a rousing and harmonious start. It’s not every morning that a six-year-old from Fenham has a date with a singer who has performed on the operatic …
The true story of a young orphaned choirboy, whose scribbled plea to be remembered was found more than 100 years after he wrote it, will be told in a new BBC audio play. North East production company Sister Sounds have produced William’s Castle which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on the afternoon of April …
The shimmering centrepiece of a major museum is back in daily action for the first time in four years. The 250-year-old automaton Silver Swan at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, returned to its daily performance duties on Tuesday, March 19, after a lengthy conservation overhaul. And the swan project has been shortlisted …
The guildhall on Newcastle Quayside was full to capacity on the morning of March 5, 1829, for the trial of a woman charged with murdering her mother. Jane Jamieson was accused of killing her mother with a poker in the town’s Keelman’s Hospital. On Sunday March 24 history will repeat itself with two performances at …
The plight of the Conservative Party increasingly resembles that of the hapless cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Just like him, the Tories keep devising cunning new plans to arrest the remorseless progress of Road Runner Keir Starmer. But we all know the Acme anvil they have just suspended from a rocket-powered kite is about 10 …
Back in the days when I covered Westminster for The Journal, Budget Day was by far the most challenging event in the political calendar, requiring me and the rest of the team to put together a front page splash, an inside double-page spread and a 16-page pullout within a few hours of the Chancellor sitting …
It was said that Edith Piaf could sing the phone book and make it sound good. Last night at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall Liam Gallagher did his level best to do something similar. The album Liam Gallagher & John Squire is not a great record. I’m not even sure it’s a good one. Nobody in …
Amanda Suddes is sat in her kitchen clasping a mug depicting Charles M. Schulz’s famous cartoon beagle, Snoopy, alongside the phrase ‘just be happy’. Given the topic under discussion, it’s hard to think of three less appropriate words to sum up her current feelings. She’s chatting about her late mother and father, Mary and Bob …
It somehow feels appropriate that Solar Capture Technologies, a small company with big ideas, is housed in the Brunel Building. Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the UK’s greatest innovators — a poster child of the Industrial Revolution — and as we strive to engineer a green industrial revolution today, it’s no exaggeration to …
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