Did leave me puzzling more generally about the point of Shakespeare North... I don't wanna be some boring traditionalist and insist on ruffs and candlelight or whatever - but is it is getting a bit odd that a replica Shakespearean theatre only really stages comic, contemporary updates...?

Featuring the Hendos factory, natch.

(And art direction from @tommofowler.bsky.social)

"Real, raw, funny and hopeful – The Start of Something had me hooked" - Rosie Price

"Effortlessly fluid. Moving and surprising" - Lily Lindon

"Brilliantly clever" - Anoushka Warden

"Original, addictive and so much fun" - Roxy Bourdillon

"Challenging, inspiring and finely wrought" - Helen Mort

Self-promotion is gross - here's what other people say!

"A total joy. I loved it" - Stylist

"A big-hearted, thought-provoking read about the search for connection” - Marie Claire

"An elegant novel of sex and intimacy" - The i

"Skillfully explores situationships in all their messy glory" - Grazia

Sad to miss the show! Glad not to be exploded!

But in all seriousness, this rather weird situation (didn’t know quite what was going on, just that there were A Lot of police cars around) was handled calmly and brilliantly by the staff at Hull Truck - bravo

I’m impressed at you scaling the hills in heels! 👏🏻

YES, glad to hear it!

this is so helpful, thank you! (also: waves shyly, as a novelist and book reviewer)

No indeed - you’ll need to pay for journalism you want to read 🙂

A snippet!

It was all I could think of to the extent I put in my review!!

I have more thoughts about The Employees than fit here but:
- loved total vision of it, the intensity, atmosphere
- amazing performances
- fascinating source material, if not fully explored
- too slow/ponderous = too long
- wished we'd been let in more: video SO well done, but distancing