Northern Ballet Launch Their Free Spring Digital Season
Plus help for chronic pain sufferers, opera at home and a hard-hitting Zoom drama.
My lockdown was recently brightened by a Zoom chat with playwright Mike Kenny.
Mike, whose decades-long writing career has earned him a clutch of major awards, adapted Edith Nesbitt’s novel The Railway Children for York Theatre Royal. The runaway star of that memorable 2008 production was a working steam train — a coup de theatre which saw the play staged successfully all round the world.
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What’s on Feb 5-11:
This week sees the launch of Northern Ballet’s Spring Digital Season. Films will be released on digitaldance.org every fortnight, starting with Northern Lights, a collaboration between choreographer Kenneth Tindall and filmmaker Dan Lowenstein. Shot in Leeds, it turns the cityscape in…