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I am delighted to be directing the Actors Company for this funny, high-energy, swashbuckling adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel by John Nicholson and Le Navet Bete. (Photos: Graeme Braidwood Costume Design: Victoria Youngson)
The 1990s was the last age of innocence. A time before smart phones and social media, a time when you had to have been there to experience it, you couldn’t see the video, the post, the tweet, the meme. The political landscape was changing, the music landscape was shifting and Manchester was a massive part of that. This is in many ways a love letter to that time. The time when I first picked up a guitar, when I first stood on stage and sang songs and stood on other stages and performed the words of Shakespeare. Because, if you are going to write a love letter, whose better words to use than The Bard himself. I hope you agree that the story of separated siblings, a magnificent tale of misunderstanding and mistaken identity, a fable filled with fabulous characters, translates to a field somewhere in the North West, sometime in the mid 90s. (MORE IMAGES TO COME SOON)
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…
Having enchanted children at Christmas time for more than 200 years this popular festive poem bursts into life in a magical production for under 7s and their grown-ups. Watch in amazement as Father Christmas and his reindeer fly through the starlit sky on their busy Christmas Eve journey ensuring that every last present is delivered on time! (Photo credit - Robert Day).
Cast of 20 wonderful 3rd year students at UoN. In the round, no set, but loads of fun.