Monkeywood Theatre, who brought us WITCH and MULTISTORY, are a Manchester based theatre company making authentic and innovative plays in the North West. Alex from the Octagon chats with the team behind their next production, TRIAL.
Sarah McDonald-Hughes and Curtis Cole are the co-writers of Sherbet, one of two New Writing plays that won this year's Octagon National Prize. Artistic Assistant Alex Joynes met up with the two writers, who will also be performing their work, to find out a bit more.
'Talking Heads’ director, Ben Occhipinti, and the Octagon’s Artistic Assistant, Alex Joynes, were granted an interview with Alan Bennett in May. They travelled to London to discuss monologues, the writing process and key influences.
Join Alex, as he tells us what it has been like to work as Assistant Director on the world premiere of 'Winter Hill' by Timberlake Wertenbaker.
Artistic Assistant Alex tells us a little bit more about the process of our Top 5 Season...