This year’s Traverse Festival programme presents eight world premieres, three European premieres and five Scottish premieres, among them a record five Traverse Theatre Company productions in the 70th anniversary year of the Edinburgh Festival.
Year in Review: Vicky Anderson’s top 5 Liverpool shows of 2016
Two fantastic things to happen this year included making it on to Radio 4’s Front Row programme to review the Everyman’s The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! (which was so deliciously complex I nearly made this a top six); the other was becoming part of the fantastic My Theatre Mates, the online network set up by leading theatre critics Terri Paddock and Mark Shenton.
INTERVIEW: Josette Bushell-Mingo on Nina Simone
Actress, singer and theatre maker Josette Bushell-Mingo has reached another high point with the success of her latest work, the excellent Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone, which ends its sold-out premiere run in Liverpool this week.
NINA: A STORY ABOUT ME & NINA SIMONE – Liverpool
Nina – A Story About Me and Nina Simone, running at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre until 29 October 2016, is without doubt a tale that needs to be told and deserves to be heard. Performer Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE is one of the patrons of the Unity, having been based in Liverpool in her early 20s.