by Administrator | Apr 8, 2022 | Quick Reads
On the 18th of March a new play, Horsemen. had its first public reading at Nottingham’s NonSuch Studios. It was a sell-out crowd. The play is a comedy of redemption, rebuilding and identity that tells the story of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse after they’ve destroyed...
by Administrator | Oct 27, 2020 | Quick Reads
It was sweet, last night, to be at Nottingham Playhouse, to see a new play by James Graham. The playwright is from Mansfield and used to work on the door at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal but this was his first new play to be staged in the city where, as he told Geeta...
by Administrator | Nov 16, 2018 | Quick Reads
Adam Penford’s first year as Artistic Director at the Playhouse has been quite astonishing. Beth Steel’s Wonderland opened his tenure and was so brilliant it will be back next February. And you already know how we feel about his adaptation of Holes. Now it’s time for...
by Administrator | Apr 14, 2018 | Quick Reads
My first introduction to the Louis Sachar’s Holes was in the mid-2000s at high school in a Greater Manchester town. At first, any school curriculum- appointed book seemed like a Camp Green Lake punishment, but Holes felt different. Perhaps it was the Disney...
by Administrator | Dec 19, 2017 | Interviews
Accessible and inspirational, Stephen Lowe’s work has been published and performed throughout the world, but it’s his fascination with Nottingham’s radical history and our famous and forgotten characters that makes him our leading man. This month, Stephen celebrates...
