Months ago, when the news that Maxine Peake was going to play Hamlet had just gone public, I asked her, in so many words, ‘”why?”. Her answer back then speaks volumes about the qualities of daring, lack of compromise and...
Read MoreThere’s a terrific, often overlooked sketch in the first series of The League of Gentlemen. In amongst the homicidal shopkeepers and deranged Job Club officers, we see Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton as Henry and...
Read MoreIt seems appropriate that a play about an unbeatable Yorkshire cyclist was penned by a similarly driven actress from across the Pennines. Bolton’s Maxine Peake has successfully adapted her Radio 4 play focusing on the life of...
Read MoreOn Portland Street in Manchester city centre, sandwiched between Chinatown and the coach station, there’s a large disused office block. Just now it’s being pressed into service for three weeks as the unique venue for...
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When John Bowen’s Robin Redbreast was first shown as a BBC One Play for Today on December...
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