Stage Frights

Stage Frights

Whether or not you believe in ghosts, it’s pretty easy to see how ghost stories easily spring up around theatres. Generations of performers treading each others’ footsteps across the boards, speaking the same scripts, telling the same stories, high emotions onstage and off, the outside world suspended as a crowd of people gathers in a dark room to experience some magic…

Festivals, Festivals, and More Festivals

Festivals, Festivals, and More Festivals

Between now and the last week of August, you have more festivals to choose from than any one person could possibly attend. Not only is there a festival happening in some part of the country every week of the summer, there are multiple festivals running simultaneously in most of those! With so much choice facing us, I have taken on the role of official programme sifter, and here are my top tips for some of the most eagerly anticipated festivals to see you through the summer.