Cultural Shenanigans

December, eh? I’m sure last time I blinked it was October. December is the time for lists. It’s a time for finishing things off and planning the next year. It’s a time for gingerbread lattes, tutting at slow-walking shoppers on Market Street, cradling mugs of over-priced gluhwein in gloved hands and jigging around your kitchen [...]

I’ve never read Hamlet; never seen a film or stage version. Among the crowd at Salford’s Lowry tonight, I suspect I was part of a small minority. I’d read reviews of the National Theatre’s Hamlet, directed by Nicholas Hytner (ex of this parish, associate director at the Royal Exchange in neighbouring Manchester once upon a [...]