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We Hear From Notts Stage Legend Kenneth Alan Taylor Ahead of His Appearance at Djanogly Theatre
Sat 04 Feb 2023Before his fundraiser event at Lakeside Arts on Friday 10 February, Kenneth Alan Taylor sits down with LeftLion...
The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner: Reimagining Sillitoe During Covid
Thu 25 Feb 2021On the event of Sir Tom Courtenay's 84th birthday, Dawn of the Unread's James Walker has re-written The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in the time of COVID. His take on Alan Sillitoe's classic work, re-titled as The Loneliness of the Lockdown Runner, is being launched on Twitter today at 5pm...
Video: Sleaford Mods on Alan Sillitoe
Sat 25 Apr 2020Arthur Seaton discovers a different type of Pussy Riot on a Saturday night...
Notts Rebels: Alan Sillitoe
Wed 22 Apr 2020Notts Rebels, the new weekly series made in conjunction with the Nottingham Castle Trust's #VoicesofToday campaign, celebrates stories of fighting injustice and acts of rebellion from Nottingham’s history. This week, James Walker explores the rebellious and anti-establishment themes in the work of Alan Sillitoe, who died ten years ago this week...
Notts’ Panto Legends Kenneth Alan Taylor and John Elkington on Bringing Sleeping Beauty to the Playhouse This Christmas
Thu 05 Dec 2019This year marks 35 years since Kenneth Alan Taylor first brought pantomime to the Nottingham Playhouse when he arrived as Artistic Director. For a generation, his gentle northern tones were the voice of the quintessential panto dame, a role he reprised over and over before hanging up the costume changes for writing instead. It’s also been 21 years since John Elkington first appeared in a Playhouse panto and solidified himself as the current dame of choice. Our Stage Editor – and massive panto fan – sat down with them both during rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty to find out about this year’s production…
Neil Fulwood on the Life and Works of Alan Sillitoe
Wed 10 Jan 2018Notts poet Neil Fulwood explains why Sillitoe is important to the landscape of Nottingham literature...
Art Works: Alanna Chamberlain
Sat 22 Jul 2017The feminist artist on her pin badge piece, Goddess of Growth...
Inflatable Structure Don Alan Parkinson Talks The New Luminarium Albesila at Highfields Park
Wed 10 May 2017Founded in Notts, Architects of Air are famous for globally touring their giant, colourful, inflatable structures you can wander around in, and they’re bringing their latest offering home at the end of this month – that’s right, the luminarium is back. This time, it’s the brand new Albesila that’s landed, just in time for Architects of Air’s 25th birthday. Our Mary Dansie got down to experience the trippy tunnels first hand, and had a chat with the creator Alan Parkinson...
Lucifer Press' Tribute to Alan Sillitoe: More Raw Material
Thu 17 Mar 2016"[Alan] continually experimented and pushed himself and challenged his readers and he didn't give a damn whether that put a dint in his popularity or not"
Alan Kitching and Monotype: Celebrating Five Pioneers of the Poster
Fri 18 Sept 2015A legendary typographer is coming to town for an exhibition celebrating some of the world's most crucial scribblers
Alan Sillitoe: The Bard of Nottingham
Thu 26 Feb 2015A photo essay exploring Nottingham's literary history from the Cheese Riots of 1766 to the trial that made it possible for everyone to swear more freely
Alan Sillitoe: The Bard of Nottingham
Thu 26 Feb 2015A photo essay exploring Nottingham's literary history from the Cheese Riots of 1766 to the trial that made it possible for everyone to swear more freely
Interview: Alan Davies
Fri 07 Nov 2014Some might know him from the telly as Stephen Fry’s sidekick on QI, some as the lovable magician-cum-detective Jonathan Creek, but Alan Davies is also a dab hand at stand-up and he’s rolling through town with his new show.....
Art Works: Jamie Gibson
Mon 10 Mar 2014"I find that interesting people, from whichever field of work they are in, make better subjects"
Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor
Thu 19 Dec 2013Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse
Tue 23 Oct 2012If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...
Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13
Wed 15 Aug 2012"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"