Most stories, give or take a chronological tweak, hang on a narrative thread with a beginning, middle and end (usually an end, although there’s always the possibility of a sequel). It keeps things tidy and helps to answer the perennial question: “What happens next?” Nick Payne, in his celebrated two-hander premiered in 2012, resisted the …
If you’d dropped me, blindfolded into the basement bar at Newcastle City Hall on Saturday night and asked me to guess the evening’s on stage attraction, I reckon I would have got it within 30 seconds. Standing in the ridiculous queue, weighing up the longevity benefits of a two-pinter versus the inevitable — and even …
The first single I bought was Bon Jovi’s Keep The Faith, and my first concert was Bon Jovi at Gateshead Stadium in 1995, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the first music documentary (or rockumentary if you will) I’m recommending is Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story which landed on Disney Plus on April …
Over the course of our children’s lives a number of ‘go to’ options have developed in our family; staple items that are guaranteed to deliver without the need for a referee or a committee. Need to knock up a quick tea? Defrost a pot of my wife’s homemade pasta sauce. Looking for an activity everyone …
A miniature white coffin filled with blonde locks is brought to the stage and signals the start of Truly, Madly Baldly – the story of writer and lead performer Sam Macgregor’s experiences with alopecia. We were gathered upstairs at Laurels Theatre for the show, which is framed as a humanist memorial for Sam’s gone but …
While the pampered (male) players of Newcastle United were staging the latest instalment of their bid for European football at St James’ Park, at the Theatre Royal came a reminder of an earlier (female) giant of the game. This was the first of three weekend performances of Wor Bella, Ed Waugh’s play which, having been …
On May 12 the 70th BAFTA Television Awards Ceremony will take place, and Happy Valley could cement its position as one of the greatest shows ever produced in Britain by becoming the first to win the coveted Best Drama award for the third time. If it does win, it will be a richly deserved success …
A show which finds the funny as well as the challenges of living with alopecia has opened at a Tyneside theatre. Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, Newcastle performer Sam Macgregor booked a chunky run of Truly, Madly, Baldly at Laurels Theatre in Whitley Bay. Bafta-nominated actor, Jack Robertson (Gerry and …
Play spin-offs from TV sitcoms are a genre unto themselves. You go not to see characters on a page brought to life by actors but actors playing the actors who made them famous on TV. So it is with Fawlty Towers, Hi-de-Hi! and indeed Dad’s Army. Captain Mainwaring, thanks to 80 episodes in nine series …
Amazon Prime’s latest big budget TV show Fallout is the adaptation of a long-running and much loved series of video games that are set in a version of the United States that has been pretty much eviscerated by nuclear war. Like several of the games, the narrative starts before the bombs drop, in a version …
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