Carmen is stuffed full of well-known arias and melodies, or as one audience member put it as she left the…
Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories lend themselves to comedy because they are often quite fantastical. Over the years many a…
There are many ways in which someone can try and make you laugh. We have gag tellers and slapstick prat…
It seems quite remarkable that two of the greatest comedians England has ever produced shared a cabin on a ship…
Douglas Adams wrote, ‘The main thing that flying requires is the ability to throw yourself at the ground and miss.’…
In a youth obsessed culture such as ours it was nice to see some plays written for actors over forty.…
It could be said that all plays are about identity at some level. Acting itself is about artifice, cultivating a…
The tragic murder of George Floyd last year in Minneapolis brought race back to the centre of the stage of…
The last performance Opera North gave before lockdown in March 2020 was at The Lowry so it seems somehow appropriate…
Written in 1935, during the depression, this play was inspired by a real life strike of cab drivers in New…