Ann Akin News Today

TALAWA, Britain’s leading black theatre company, have released their third and fourth short dramatised monologues based on verbatim interviews with black key workers on the front line of the Covid crisis. We hear the daily experiences of a railway worker and a part-time supermarket assistant, and their tales make for interesting comparisons and contrasts. The good-humoured demeanour of Kwame Bentil’s middle-aged train despatch worker conceals a thinly veiled frustrated anger at the behavio...

Artistic director Natalie Ibu has unveiled her first season at Northern Stage. Explaining how it feels to be both joining an organisation and debuting a first season during a pandemic, Ibu stated: "But – whilst a surprise twist – its provided a brilliant opportunity to hit the ground running, collaborating with artists, with place, with the personal and the political to meet audiences wherever they are and then lead them back to our building when its safe to do so." As part of the season, a...

Following the success of last Autumns Dear Tomorrow, part of The Signal Fires project which celebrated the vibrancy of touring theatre across the UK, Actors Touring Company (ATC) has joined forces with Northern Stage for Dear Tomorrow - Hope From Home. Running with one letter a day from February 22nd to 27th, the project comprises six letters of hope and optimism in these uncertain times, commissioned from six writers and performed digitally by six actors. The project extends the original conce...