Annelouisekershaw365
I’m Anne Louise Kershaw a freelance writer; Music Editor of Blankpages and Manchester's Finest & I write for Guardian Northerner and Clash Magazine amongst others . I'm Senior Editorial & Designer for Carel Press.
This is my blog where I write about music, theatre, fashion, arts & culture, gender & equality. Every time I blog I post a picture because i'm obsessed with my camera.
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Recent Posts
- Exclusive interview with Skin from Skunk Anansie
- Twitter: Procrastination, productivity and pain
- The drawbacks of Twitter bitching
- The Accrington Pals, Royal Exchange Manchester. Bitter, brutal and beautiful!
- Rats’ Tales at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre
- The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange
- I interview Shell Zenner – The godmother of new music
- Bringing classical music out of the concert hall and into the art world!
- I discuss ‘Madchester’ with Dave Haslam
- Blank Media Collective Projector Series
Category Archives: Film & Theatre
The Accrington Pals, Royal Exchange Manchester. Bitter, brutal and beautiful!
It is fitting that Manchester’s Royal Exchange theatre begin the New Year by closing its winter season with ‘The Accrington Pals’ as themes of opportunity and finality, new horizons and brutal endings rifle through it. Inspired in part by a … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Tagged Manchester, Peter Whelan, The Accrington Pals, The Royal Exchange, Theatre, World War I, WWI
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Miss Julie at The Royal Exchange – Electrically charged and beautifully bleak
On the whole, a play by Strindberg (1849-1912) is never going to be a day at the races, though if you count the two tragic deaths at this year’s Grand National, then maybe it is. A prolific writer who often … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Gender & Equality, Reviews, Theatre
Tagged Carla Henry, Gender, Joe Armstrong, Maxine Peake, Miss Julie, Strindberg, The Royal Exchange
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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning at The Royal Exchange – exhilarating, sharp and real!
Now I’m fond of a bit of retro styling (80’s trash, early 60’s Rock & Roll fash, 40’s tailoring etc), but while I like to stylistically look back, I am under no ‘good old days’ delusion, style or otherwise. For … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Gender & Equality, Reviews
Tagged Abortion, Alan Sillitoe, Albert Finney, Angry Young Man, Arctic Monkeys, Arthur Seaton, ASBO, Chanel Cresswell, Clare Calbraith, Cold War, Daddy Warbucks, Downton Abbey, Factory Floor, Freudian, Gin, Graeme Hawley, Jo Hartley, Karel Weise, Kitchen Sing Drama, Matthew Dunster, Nottingham, Perry Fitzpatrick, Riots, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Sex, Shag, Talk, Tamla Kari, that’s what i’m not, The Royal Exchange, This Is England, Walk, Whatever people say I am, Working Class
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Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester – A review.
It is surely a challenge for any director, to make a play, first performed over four centuries ago, understandable and relevant to a modern day audience. Yet, under Toby Frow’s direction, Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II at the Royal Exchange Theatre, … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Reviews
Tagged 1950s, Chris New, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Emma Cunliffe, Fleet Foxes, Gaveston, Isabelle of France, Jolyon Coy, King's Speech, Mad Men, Manchester, Mortimer, On The Road, Red Wine, Royal Exchange Theatre, Samuel Collings, Simon & Garfunkel, Toby Frow
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84 – Edginess, cool and glamour go up in smoke
84/281 There was a mildly thought provoking article in this Sunday’s Observer by Euan Ferguson about fashion’s attraction to smoking. In Darling, you’re smoking, Euan looks at the glamour, the reality and the attraction of smoking in the world of … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film & Theatre, Health & fitness, Music
Tagged Build A Rocket Boys!, Coke, Cool, Elbow, Euan Ferguson, Fag, Grease, kate Moss, Mother's Day, Sandra Dee, Smoking, Snog, The Observer
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74 – Elizabeth Taylor dies, another hole in our cultural comfort blanket
74/291 Within what feels like minutes, people all over facebook and twitter have changed their profile pics to various beautiful images of Elizabeth Taylor; people are tweeting humorous quotes by her; YouTube clips of her finest film moments are posted … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Film & Theatre, News
Tagged Adverts, Blanket, Classic Hollywood, Collapse into Now, Culture, Death, Elizabeth Taylor, Films, Glamour, Heritage, Hollywood, Identity, Marriages, Models, Music, Oasis, Popular Culture, R.E.M, Race, Religion, Tv
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56 – R.E.M Collapse into Now Film Project
56/309 Days before the excitedly anticipated forthcoming R.E.M album Collapse into Now (I am both over-excited and anticipating much greatness), R.E.M HQ, the official band website, release the news of the Collapse into Now Film Project. To work alongside the … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Music, Reviews
Tagged Collapse into Now, Collapse into Now Video Project, R.E.M, The Observer
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54 – Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy’s bluff, bollocks & bloody genius!
54/311 A hoax or not a hoax… who the hell cares? As one of the many Banksy cohorts says near the end of Exit Through the Gift Shop “The joke is on… I don’t even know if there is a … Continue reading
51 – The Oscar winner is The King’s Speech
51/314 “The British film industry really stretches itself by making a film about a posh bloke with a stammer” or, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, underdog does good, big yawn” are the types of geeky tweets about the Oscar news today. This … Continue reading
Posted in Film & Theatre, Reviews
Tagged Best Film, Cinema, Colin Firth, Director, Film, Fossil Fuel, Inception, Oscar winner, Oscars, Slumdog, The Kings Speech, Underdog, Writing, XTC
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