Dave and Carol are back featuring the great and the good of the Arts & Entertainment scene across North Staffordshire and South Cheshire. They review a recent Freddie Mercury tribute act and Romeo & Juliet whic is currently playing the New Vic Theatre. This week Dave interviews Lucy Beaumont ahead of her appearance at The Victoria Hall. Carol chats to Andrew Nicklin the Director of the Film Theatre Stoke. Oh and it's Panto preview time, oh yes it is! Dave […]
Carol chats to Michael Fair, Director and Actor at the Rep Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent about the new season starting this month and in particularly, the thrilling opening production of The Ghost Train. Michael explains how the play was written by the Dad's Army veteran actor Arnold Ridley, who played the much loved character Godfrey in the iconic TV series. Ridley wrote the play in 1923 and it is a story of a group of mismatched travellers who are stranded for […]
It's interviews galore on this week's epidode of A View from the Wings the Arts & Entertainment podcast produced by Moorlands Radio. Dave and Carol bring you five interviews from the hugely successfull War Child fundraiser which was held at the Artisan Tap on Bank Holiday Monday. Dave speaks to Jo Cox from the Leek Arts Festival and we learn all about Stoke Rep from Director/Operations manager Richard Masters. A few words on Good Golly Miss Molly now that Carol […]
Stoke Rep plays a vital role in the cultural scene across North Staffordshire and South Cheshire. It's over 100 years old, dating back to 1920 when a group of young people interested in amateur theatre came together to put on a play to raise money for charity. They hired The Empire Theatre in Longton and the production took place as a matinee performance in February 1921. By 1923 they had begun to call themselves The Stoke-on-Trent Repertory Players. Over the […]
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