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 …
A new play called Underdog: The Other Other Brontë has just opened at the National Theatre but there’s good reason in the North East for looking out for the reviews when they start appearing in the coming days (press night in London is April 4). It’s a co-production between the National Theatre and Northern Stage …
In 1900 a Tyneside youngster was ‘taught a lesson’ for stealing from his employer by being birched. Now the fate of George Sayers, aged around 12, has provided a lesson in turn to pupils at a school near to where he lived in North Shields. George’s story is the latest project by the North Shields …
Before you ask, I’ve never seen Ye naked. I’m talking about Kim Kardashian’s second husband. The one before Mr West and the one after Damon Thomas. The bloke she married and divorced after just 72 days following the whirlwind romance gone wrong. So far, I’ve only seen one of Kim’s hubbies modelling his birthday suit …
Staring out towards the North Sea, from her riverside flat overlooking the Tyne, Angie Jenkison’s in reflective mood. It’s only been a few weeks since Roger Daltrey, a close friend and a source of constant inspiration, revealed to the world that he was stepping away from the fundraising mission closest to his heart. It’s still …
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