11th April 2016 Following hot on the heels of their performance of Hamlet earlier this year, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory (SATTF) returns with a genteel take on the bards ‘All’s Well that Ends Well” Perhaps not one of… Continue Reading
7th April 2016 When Trainspotting first hit our shelves back in the early Britpop days of 1993, it was part of a wave of frighteningly accurate portrayals of Heroin addiction (see Robert O’Connor’s Buffalo Soldiers and Edward St Aubyn’s Bad… Continue Reading
31st March 2016 In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was the princess of Argos, sacrificed under the knife of King Agamemnon in order that the Gods should allow his ships to sail to Troy. Fast-forward a couple of millennia and Iphigenia’s… Continue Reading
29th March 2016 In 1941, the great American playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O’Neill completed Long Day’s Journey into Night. A piece of autobiographical work, it was so fierce and laid bare so many truths of his life that… Continue Reading
8th March 2016 Oh Whistle is an exceptional one man show by Nunkie Theatre, performed at the Tobacco Factory Theatre on Sunday. Robert Lloyd Parry brought to life two ghost stories by MR James, and indeed James seemed resurrected also… Continue Reading
29th February 2016 Curried Goat and Fishfingers / Check the Label Curried Goat and Fishfingers is an enthusiastic mix of discussion, skit, performance poetry and musical theatre which came together to create the first of two, one-hour performances in the… Continue Reading
18th February 2016 The original approach to story-telling in African British theatre group Tiata Fahodzi’s latest work is immediately alluded to as the audience file into the Old Vic’s studio to the sight of two actors holding Nintendo Wii controllers… Continue Reading
16th February 2016 Following last season’s inaugural co-productions of the Bard’s work, the Tobacco Factory and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory have come together once again this year to explore another of his most popular and most quoted plays, Hamlet.… Continue Reading