It's been a busy couple of weeks for us at Warts and All Theatre here at Delapre Abbey, writes Chris Elmer-Gorry. The March Sunday Artist Shindig at Foodies.rocks with Brigitte Aphrodite, proved extremely popular! We've been darting around Northampton...
Before I met the real Tim Pigott-Smith OBE in the Crown Room of the Royal Theatre at Northampton's Royal and Derngate, I whiled away a few minutes meeting the famous Tim Pigott-Smith in my imagination.
This is the TPS who...
Brigitte Aphrodite kicks a glittery platformed heel through the cosy convention of generic job titles by needing at least half a dozen words to describe what she does. Punk feminist showgirl poet singer comedian... maybe... ish.
I think I know what...
We started Warts and All Theatre back in September 2016. For those of you who haven't heard of us yet we are the resident theatre company at Delapre Abbey in Northampton. We've been trading for 6 months and it's got...
The first thing you notice about Jane Hawking is that she talks dead posh, writes Ted Sullivan.
The first wife of the famous Stephen and author of Travelling to Infinity which inspired the smash hit movie about their lives 'The Theory...
If I start out with a header like 'The best thing I've ever seen at the theatre' I know I'm being misleading straight away.
It's a woolly statement: who knows what I've seen at the theatre? And do I mean...
The press tent at a music festival is an interesting place to be. It is an oasis of calm of sorts, albeit one where there is a lot of work going on.
At Camp Bestival it was decked out like a...
While we were buying our ice cream and Pick N Mix to take into Batman: The Dark Knight Rises the queue was alive with chatter about the shootings in America two days before.
A gunman in a gas mask burst...
Stewart Lee performed in Northampton at the start of the month. He is the current best British comedian, as voted for in the British Comedy Awards.
But what does this mean?
He’s the champion comedian, the high overlord of British comedy,...
JOSIE Long is stepping up. The material she is touring with now is political, she's speaking out against the cuts and talking about her activism. She started out apologising for it to the audience in the Nook Cafe at...
