The insistence of a telephone ringing can be annoying, “Answer me! Answer me!”, it cries. Yet when it stops and…
The link between a football fan and their team can often be like the relationship between a man and a…
One of my favourite cartoons in The Beano was a strip called The Numskulls. They were a team of human-like…
In the upstairs studio of the King’s Arms, a small tornado named Marigold is being unleashed onstage. At first glance,…
As part of Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2024, The Kings Arm in Salford welcomes the flamboyant, some would say ‘Diva’,…
All playwrights speak to each other in one way or another. Sometimes they will talk to the living but most…
The issue of crime and punishment has been discussed by writers and thinkers for thousands of years. There is, of…
The origins of tonight’s play, a revival of a 40year old tale, by Jill Fleming, came from her time with…
When Enough was first performed at the Greater Manchester Fringe last summer it was depressingly prescient. A play about misogyny,…
In the 50s and 60s Greenwich Village, New York, was at the centre of the American Folk Music revival which…