Tag Archive | "theatre"

Science fiction: The City and the City on stage

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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Arthur C Clarke award-winning author China Miéville’s story is being performed by the Lifeline Theatre  in Chicago. The theatre company who has been entertaining for thirty years, have performed works such as Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Tolkien, Cats Cradle and Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. I am [...]

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Reviews: V For Vendetta takes to the stage….

Monday, January 14, 2013

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Review by Matthew Chorlton – creator of The Fiction Stroker web site All photography by Laura Evans After the successful adaptation of The Ballad of Halo Jones by Manchester-based Scytheplays back in 2012, the Lass O’Gowrie, famous for their Fringe productions of Russell T. Davies’ Midnight, Year of the Sex Olmypics and Coronation Street together [...]

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Interview: V for Vaudevillian – Matt Badham talks to V at Lassfest.

Monday, January 7, 2013

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V for Vendetta is writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd’s seminal comic series from the eighties. The story depicts a near-future police state in which a Fascist party called Norsefire hold power. It is against this backdrop that V, an anarchist revolutionary, undertakes a campaign to bring down the government. Now a new stage [...]

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Reviews: Dead Static

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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Dead Static A play by Steve Jordan Dead Static is a really nice piece of small theatre, performed with considerable ability, making the audience laugh at just the right times. It would be unfair to compare to the few examples of humorous science fiction on television, or radio, as it stands on its own right [...]

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Reviews: Halo Jones takes to the stage… and LassFest returns with V, Blade Runner and more Halo…

Monday, December 3, 2012

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Halo Jones was first put on as part of the growing number of live events taking place at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester. James Bacon reviewed it for the blog here, and Matt Badham interviewed the Lass’s Gareth Kavanagh here. But more recently it made a comeback at a special limited run at Thought [...]

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Upcoming: Ballad of Halo Jones stage play coming to Leeds

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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You may remember back at the end of 2011 and start of this year we blogged about well-known comic and science fiction friendly Manchester landmark the Lass O’Gowrie pub staging a theatrical version of Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s superb 2000 AD series The Ballad of Halo Jones. Quite a feat to adapt this groundbreaking [...]

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Horror: The Hallowe’en Sessions

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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The Hallowe’en Sessions Written by Kim Newman, Stephen Volk, Maura McHugh, Anne Billson, Paul McAuley and Sean Hogan. Leicester Square Theatre, 29th October – 3rd November As one goes down from street level, just off Leicester Square, the theatre feels plush, traditionally red, velvety even and yet distinctly underground. Then one is directed further to [...]

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Manchester Fringe, the Lass, the Robots of Death, Paul Darrow and more

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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Gareth Kavanagh, co-owner of the Lass O’Gowrie that has staged, among others, a superbly received stage version of Moore and Gibson’s Halo Jones (see here for James’ cracking review of that show), and chair of the Greater Manchester Fringe returns once more to his geek roots for more live entertainment, this time including a stage [...]

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Gaiman’s musical

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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As regular followers of Neil Gaiman‘s blog will doubtless know he has been taking some time recently to sequester himself away in order to concentrate on some new writing. Novels, comics, films, poetry, Neil is an expert at adapting his writing imagination to almost any storytelling medium, it seems; now he is about to take [...]

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Beware of the dog: The Hound of the Baskervilles on stage

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

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Matt Madman Badham risks a long, lonely walk on the blasted moors as the banshee wail of a slavering, possibly supernatural, glowing hound echoes across the land. That man will risk anything to get out of his turn washing the dishes, you know… Actually Matt alerts us to the Oldham Coliseum Theatre’s new stage adaptation [...]

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