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Empty biscuit boxes, bogie checks & milk stipulations – by Rachel Hammond
I'm currently sat at my dressing room table, and every time I write a sentence another person enters the room, sparking conversation. We chat about Brexit, they leave, and I'm left even more creatively frail than before. Another person enters. We chat about 50:50 in...
Bacon baps, peach Melbas and Shakespeare – by James McLean
One of the best things about our job is being on the road. We get to visit some wonderful places touring Much Ado, and spend time in the company of people who have been fans of Broadsides for years. It's a privilege. With our 'A Muddle in Messina' companion piece...
Much Ado About Nowt – by Isobel Middleton
A Northern Broadsides blog After several years of working mostly in television, radio and the voice over industry, I’m delighted to be back on stage again. Playing a brilliant part in a brilliant play. For a brilliant theatre company. And on tour. Now, I haven’t...
Touring and Protest – Lisa Howard
A few years back I was involved in another play in which my character was partly responsible for assaulting a police officer and hiding his unconscious body in a cupboard. That play was ‘Sex and Docks and Rock and Roll’ by Boff Whalley, the company was Red Ladder. We...
Reflections from Mike Hugo and Steve Power
Michael Hugo: Sergeant/Constable/Undertaker/Pops A 'tour' has had two meanings for me as long as I can remember. I've known you can be shown around a place of interest and that's a tour, but in my dad's work a tour meant a posting to another country. In our case...
Reflections – by Suzanne, Matt, Rhian and Catherine
Wherever we go, whoever we meet, whatever the size or scale of the experience, we tend to take time out after the event, to reflect. I asked the cast and crew of They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay! if during our final week at The Viaduct Theatre, they would help me reflect...