17 stories by "Andrew Liddle"
The intimacy of the Georgian Theatre Royal is perfect for panto. Gary Bridgens, returning for his eight season as dame Glinda, is
After stellar success last year with Pinocchio the same creative team returns to Scarborough with a radically different take on A Christmas
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: David Thacker has a great track record of staging classic American drama and this production is surely a highlight.
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Oldham Coliseum Theatre: Most of us have seen Chicago the Musical on stage and screen. Here is something a little different, a sparkling revival of an earlier version of the play, not seen i…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: JB Priestley's enigmatic classic comes around quite frequently these days but here is one to savour and remember, full of insight and intuitive understanding - …
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Pam Gems' play sounds a rousing fanfare at the end of the 2012-13 season. Written some 35 years ago, it remains a deeply moving homage to France's greatest…
2 Albion Street, Oldham: It's long been recognised that legitimate theatre does not have to be performed beneath a proscenium arch. It's now clear that a charity shop will do nicel…
Octagon Theatre Bolton: Dario Fo's play can best be described as satirical slapstick. Set in Italy, in 1974, in a period of national unrest, it has an overtly serious purpose highlighti…
Octagon, Bolton: If you want classic American drama, then the Octagon is the place to find it, season after season - and David Thacker (one of Arthur Miller's favourite directors) is th…
A house in Bradford, Yorkshire: We traverse Bradford's notorious Thorpe Edge estate before being invited to let ourselves into a council house with a riot of a lawn strewn with empties.…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: The Octagon, under David Thacker's inspired stewardship, is consistently at the cutting edge - and this is another highly innovative play.
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Oldham Coliseum Theatre: In Fine Time Fontayne and Richard J Fletcher, the splendidly refurbished Coliseum is blessed with two of the finest festive frolickers on the panto scene - and they …
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: The Octagon's Christmas show is a highly charged, deeply moving version of this perennial favourite. It owes much to the dramaturgical skills of director, Eliza…
Octagon Theatre Bolton: That the world premiere of Lighthearted Intercourse has come about redounds to the credit of director David Thacker, who made sense of the many extant drafts and note…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: For several decades Terence Rattigan's plays were out of favour, dismissed for having an upper middle class milieu. However, attitudes began to change around th…
Lawrence Batley, Huddersfield : How is it done is the question on everyone's lips. Smoke and mirrors is the phrase that comes to mind - except it's actually smoke and sliding slive…
Grange Arts Centre, Oldham: As the sun began to sink on the 1970s, Robin Herford was touring with Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, Taking Steps. One of the venues was the Grange, which by …
