Jackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to Manchester
Jackie Kay is the current Makar, the Scottish national poet, whose 2010 memoir, Red Dust Road, is to be adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta for a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotla...
10 Maj 201932min
Lisa Holdsworth: bringing Andrea Dunbar's story back to Bradford
Playwright Andrea Dunbar from Bradford in Yorkshire, most famous for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, died in 1990 at the age of 29. Her story was retold in Adelle Stripe's award-winning debut novel Black Teeth...
3 Maj 201926min
Braham Murray: how the Royal Exchange Theatre was born in Manchester
Braham Murray OBE arrived in Manchester in the 1960s as the youngest artistic director in the country, of the travelling Century Theatre, remaining in the city to co-found the 69 Theatre Company which...
26 Apr 201929min
MIF 2019: John McGrath, Leo Warner and Phelim McDermott
The 2019 Manchester International Festival will take place at various venues around the city in July. An edited version of the main presentation at the MIF launch on 7 March can be heard in a previous...
5 Apr 201927min
Derby Theatre takes BSL to the Jungle
Derby Theatre is preparing for a new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, in an adaptation by Neil Duffield, which will be the theatre's first ever production to full integrate BSL signing...
30 Mars 201919min
MIF launch 2019
Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2019, held in Manchester on 7 March 2019. Introduced by MIF artistic director John McGrath, this episode also features announce...
9 Mars 201935min
From Shore To Shore: migrant stories come to your local Chinese restaurant
From Shore to Shore is a play written by British playwright Mary Cooper in collaboration with M W Sun based on real migration stories from Chinese communities throughout the UK that will tour national...
26 Feb 201941min
Box of Tricks sets spark to new play from Manchester actor and writer David Judge
The latest production from Manchester-based new writing theatre company Box of Tricks is SparkPlug, written and performed by David Judge based on his own experiences being brought up as a mixed race c...
14 Feb 201936min
