Features | World festivals 4 all | | 10:21am Thursday 3rd July 2008 | | Viv Hardwick talks with Suzy O'Hara Sheader, Matthew
Moore and Tom Boden about the ambitious plans to turn
Durham City into a top venue for hosting festivals
EDINBURGH eat your heart
out four back-to-back
festivals this summer are
aiming to prove that Durham
City is a world class
contender when it comes to
hosting artistic events. |
| ‘I’ll never retire’ | | 10:41am Thursday 19th June 2008 | | Joe McGann tells Viv Hardwick that he wants to keep on
performing ‘until they drag my boots from under the curtain’
as he brings Fiddler On The Roof on tour to Wearside. |
| Soap legend | | 10:37am Thursday 19th June 2008 | | Ian Reddington is famous for starring in two top TV
soaps. |
| Boogie brilliant | | 11:08am Thursday 12th June 2008 | | It was one of the hottest days of the year, but Darlington
Civic's pantomime launch went ahead without headline
star Ian Reddington. Co-star Pete Hillier talked to Viv
Hardwick about finding TV fame as Boogie Pete.
WHILE Coronation
Street favourite
Ian Reddington
was forced to
cancel his
appearance at
Darlington Civic Theatre's
pantomime launch on Monday, costar
Pete Hillier of TV's Boogie
Beebies fame saved the day by
announcing his grandmother is
from Middlesbrough. |
| ‘One of the best sitcoms ever’ | | 10:30am Thursday 5th June 2008 | | North-East actors David Nellist and Scott Frazer
have a script by world famous writers and the
legacy of iconic TV characters Bob Ferris and
Terry Collier working in their favour for Durham
Gala's world premiere, they tell Viv Hardwick
BY pure
coincidence,
actors David
Nellist and Scott
Frazer met at
Newcastle Central
Station on their way to
rehearsal, the same way that
Bob and Terry are reunited in
The Likely Lads, the play which
is bringing world attention to
Durham's Gala Theatre next
week. |
| The man for all seasons | | 10:35am Thursday 5th June 2008 | | A Man For All Seasons has developed into a love affair for director
Paul Shelley. The brother of actor Francis Matthews, who has made
his name in classical theatre, talks to Steve Pratt about bringing
a month-long version of the work to York's Theatre Royal
ACTOR Paul Shelley fell in love when
he appeared on the London stage in
a revival of A Man For All Seasons
three or four years ago. Not with a
person but the play - Robert Bolt's
historical drama charting the clash
between the state, in the formidable shape of
King Henry V, and the individual, namely Sir
Thomas More, who put conscience before
approval of the monarch's behaviour. |
| Pit of all right | | 10:38am Thursday 29th May 2008 | | The West End beckons for The Pitman Painters as the
Geordie drama enjoys a sell-out run at the National
Theatre. Viv Hardwick talks to director Max Roberts
about his beloved Live Theatre's run of success
|
| Prize Bottom | | 10:39am Thursday 29th May 2008 | | He's ended up by touring to the North-East in a
caravan, but Henry Waddington is looking forward to his
Opera North comedy role of Bottom in A Midsummer
Night's Dream, he tells Viv Hardwick.
THE theatrical cliche
ehave you seen my
Bottom?f has Henry
Waddington roaring
with laughter gwell eI
had a large hand on my
openingf was one of the comments
as was ean impressive Bottomf and
one of the paperfs described me as
ea sonorous Bottomf,h comes the
response. |
| Super troupers | | 10:53am Thursday 22nd May 2008 | | Viv Hardwick talks to Mark Thomas about
pretending to be Bjorn from Abba for ten years as the
boss of Abba Mania, the show which claims to be the
top tribute to the sound of Sweden's best-known band.
MARK Thomas
claims to have
enjoyed ten solid
years of switching
from a Welsh to a
Swedish accent and
becoming a soundalike version of
Bjorn from Abba after deciding to
create the touring tribute show,
Abba Mania. |
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