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Northern Broadsides

June 2022

  • Daniel Evans and Alecky Blythe, the duo behind Our Generation, at the National Theatre.

    Culture in peril
    Cancellations, costs and chaos: UK theatres grapple with rising Covid cases

    Infections among workforce lead theatres to cancel performances, with loan repayments, soaring energy prices and the cost of living crisis adding to their woes

February 2022

  • ‘Thou and I am one’ … EM Williams as Rosalind and Isobel Coward as Celia in As You Like It.

    As You Like It review – Northern Broadsides stage a dreamy quest

    Laurie Sansom’s languid production of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy is all about appearances

June 2021

  • Brianna Douglas and Arian Nik in Beyond These Walls.

    Lockdown culture
    Beyond These Walls review – Tennessee Williams cools down in Boston Spa

    Drifters and deadbeats populate four lesser-known Williams shorts in this un-sultry Northern Broadsides anthology

February 2020

  • Quality Street

    Quality Street review – a box of mixed delights

    Uneven adaptation of JM Barrie’s 1901 romcom

February 2019

  • Linford Johnson, Isobel Middleton and Robin Simpson in Much Ado About Nothing.

    Much Ado About Nothing review – Shakespeare meets Dad's Army

    Beatrice and Benedick engage in heartwarming hostilities in Northern Broadsides’ rich and rewarding production

November 2018

  • Lisa Howard as Anthea and Suzanne Ahmet as Maggie in They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!

    They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! review – Dario Fo's farce for our times

    Pantomime gags drive home the betrayal of the working class in this deft update of Fo’s comic caper

October 2018

  • ©NOBBY CLARK +44(0)7941-515770 +44(0)20-7274-2105 nobby@nobbyclark.co.uk<br>Northern Broadsides &amp; York Theatre Royal Oct 2018 Dress Rehearsal They Don’t Pay We Won’t Pay by Dario Fo Adapted by Debbie McAndrew Directed by Conrad Nelson Designer Jessica Worrall Lighting Designer Douglas Kuhrt Suzanne Ahmet as Maggie Lisa Howard as Anthea Mike Hugo as Constable/Sargent/Undertaker Steve Huison as Jack Matt Connor as Lewis ©NOBBY CLARK +44(0)7941-515770 +44(0)20-7274-2105 nobby@nobbyclark.co.uk

    They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! review – Dario Fo's food-looting farce updated

    Relocated to northern England, this fast-paced panto-esque comedy is damningly relevant now

April 2018

  • ‘Timeless space of the imagination’: Northern Broadsides’s Hard Times begins at the circus.

    Hard Times review – Dickens goes to the circus

    Deborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant on a classic novel as Northern Broadsides add extra oom-pah

February 2018

  • Hard Times

    Hard Times review – Northern Broadsides make Dickens a laugh factory

  • ‘A tour de force’: Leslie Manville, with Jeremy Irons, in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

    The week in theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night; The Captive Queen; Dry Powder – review

  • Angela Griffin (Nourmahal) and Barrie Rutter (The Emperor) in The Captive Queen by John Dryden @ Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Directed by Barrie Rutter. (Opening 07-02-18) ©Tristram Kenton 02-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Captive Queen review – Rutter bows out with rhyming couplets and marital spats

  • Barrie Rutter

    Barrie Rutter: ‘I’m not everybody’s cup of tea’

September 2017

  • Jacqueline Naylor as Marlene, Sarah-Jane Potts as Rose and Barrie Rutter as Fuller in For Love or Money.

    For Love or Money review – Northern Broadsides strike comedy gold

    Blake Morrison transposes a corrupt, covetous 18th-century Paris to 1920s Yorkshire in a lively satire directed by and starring Barrie Rutter
  • Jos Vantyler and Sarah-Jane Potts in For Love or Money.

    For Love or Money review – a rich whirligig of pleasure

    A fast-paced adaptation of the 18th-century French satire sees Northern Broadsides director/performer Barrie Rutter bow out in style
  • Rocío Molina, Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton and Simon Amstell

    Autumn arts preview 2017
    Angels and demons: the unmissable theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2017

    Hamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston’s news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling queen

July 2017

  • Northern Broadsides' outgoing founder and artistic director, Barrie Rutter.

    Barrie Rutter resigns from Northern Broadsides due to stagnant funding

    Artistic director and founder cites lack of increase in Arts Council England support for decision to leave the Yorkshire company next April

June 2017

  • Northern Broadsides’ production of School for Scandal, 2005

    Kings and fools: Barrie Rutter on Northern Broadsides at 25 – in pictures

    Northern Broadsides’ ‘dark, austere and genuinely disturbing’ production of Richard III is staged in Hull this month as the company celebrates its 25th birthday. Its founder and artistic director Barrie Rutter revisits some of the theatre company’s greatest hits

May 2017

  • Mat Fraser and Dean Whatton in Richard III.

    Richard III review – a stark and powerful coup

    Mat Fraser is genially terrifying as the dastardly king in Northern Broadsides’ 25th anniversary performance
  • Mat Fraser as Richard III with Christine Cox as the Duchess

    Richard III review – Mat Fraser proves a brilliant villain for Northern Broadsides

    Swerving between charm and disgust in a dark, disturbing production, Fraser creates a sense of a man bitterly aware that he will never fit in
  • Shocking again … Mat Fraser has made a career confronting attitudes to disability.

    Mat Fraser on playing Richard III: 'I'd begun to feel like yesterday's cripple'

    He’s staged Thalidomide! A Musical, stormed American TV and starred in an explicit fairytale with his wife. Now, Mat Fraser is raising hell as Shakespeare’s royal villain – without the hump
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