By Alexander Huetson Friday, August 3 2018, 11:09
Upon entering the White Bear Pub I'm struck by the beauty of the pub's interior – more like an airy time capsule to a former golden age.
Upstairs the stage is small, with a simple panel fenced backdrop, a table, a phone and a radio. All essential plot devices as we later find out. 2 actors wait to spring into action, with an eery framed picture behind them, alluding to a nightmare.
By Nicky Allpress Friday, August 3 2018, 10:09
Katherine Parkinson is candy stripe heaven, dusting and jiving, fixing her Johnny a Gimlet as he walks in the door, but Judy is hiding her worries in a mixing bowl.
Richard Harrington as Johnny and Katherine Parkinson as Judy in Home I'm Darling. Photo by Manuel Harlan
By Monty Leigh Friday, August 3 2018, 10:00
Self proclaimed ‘professional idiots’ The Lampoons revive their re-imagining of William Castle’s 1959 American Film Horror “The House On Haunted Hill” – a film starring Vincent Price who offers a $10,000 prize to five strangers if they are able to survive one night at his haunted house. The Lampoons are off to Edinburgh, and I highly encourage you add them to your list.
By Stuart King Wednesday, August 1 2018, 16:24
Playwright and all-round northern saint Alan Bennett was and always shall remain middle-aged. In reality of course, he is now an octogenarian, but he pervaded an air of '40-something' in his youth and never quite relieved himself of the habit.
By Phil Willmott Wednesday, August 1 2018, 16:10
In 1968 American playwright Mart Crowley secured his place in theatre and LGBT history with his ground breaking work THE BOYS IN THE BAND, the world’s first commercially successful play with openly gay characters. In this seminal work a group of men gather for a party and drink a lot, and say viscous things to each other (as we sometimes do). This is a later play, from 1993.
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