They have changed the menu at Buddies!
Towards the end of the last century I arrived in Northampton as a wide-eyed bumpkin from leafy Bedford and I asked the grizzled old hacks at the Chron what this dirty old [...]
Culture
One of the the most important plays I’ll watch this year
Tre Ventour reviews the Made In Northampton production Our Lady of Kibeho, staged for the first time in the UK at Royal & Derngate… Photos by Manuel Harlan Kibeho [...]
Inside Northampton night shelter
Shirley Jones finds out where people go when they have nowhere else to go… When the long, warm nights of summer first begin to give way to the shorter nights of autumn, [...]
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
Delving into the story behind BBC slavery epic The Long Song with Tré Ventour… Through her books, including Small Island and The Long Song Andrea Levy has been a voice [...]
If you’ve ever felt like you were different…
Tré Ventour looks back at the second Q-Film weekender at Northampton Filmhouse… Filmmaking is an act of protest – to make a film, to write a poem, to be an artist [...]
Magic consultant called in for Our Lady of Kibeho
Royal & Derngate’s latest Made in Northampton production has been taking advice from a magic consultant to tell a haunting story of visions and visitations. Our [...]
It’s binnertime again!
Kate Wills gives notice of a very special culinary event at the end of the month… You are cordially invited to Elsie’s Triple Binner. In fact it is Elsie’s [...]
JK Rowling is criminally good
Lena Davis has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create [...]
Why Jo Gordon’s reign as chief exec at Royal & Derngate should be music to our ears
The Stage has just released its list of the 100 most influential people in British entertainment and that included two people from Northampton’s Royal & Derngate: [...]