Northamptonshire’s Richard III was the victim of a French coup
My first encounter with the author of Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth now seems like it took place in another era of history. Many years ago I was news editor of the [...]
Reviews
Get inside the lives of the Last of the Pelican Daughters
The very brilliant young company Wardrobe Ensemble bring their latest production for pre-Edinburgh previews at Northampton this week, and I implore you to go if you can get [...]
Are you a papal person?
As part of its Made in Northampton season, Royal & Derngate Northampton is staging a world premiere of The Pope, which runs on the Royal stage until Saturday 22 June, [...]
Bill’s may be a chain but a good shopping hideout
We usually give priority on our eating out experiences in NQ to independent outlets who, like our humble selves, are battling against the bigger chaps with their deeper, [...]
Your best Bette is a real superstar
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 [...]
Tap and Kitchen’s an odd modern mixture
WE needed an excuse to move further afield from the county town to discover more of Northamptonshire’s culinary hot-spots. When the in-laws decided, well in advance of [...]
The original Tricky Dicky
When it comes to character studies, one of the finest ever written is Shakespeare’s Richard III. Following Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hollow Crown) and Aneurin Barnard (The [...]
Mother lovin’ noodles
Let me show you what mountain bikers eat, I said to my daughter as we pootled around Northampton on our bikes at the weekend. That’s how we ended up at Mothers Wok and [...]
Why you can now believe in Ghosts
What a night of degenerate filth. It was quite superb. The new Made in Northampton production at the Royal Theatre in Northampton is Ibsen’s Ghosts. It’s first [...]