Amy Stone

1 month ago | northernsoul.me.uk | Desmond Bullen |Amy Stone |Fran Yeoman

It starts in flames. Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display diminishing them in scale, they could, at first glance, be part of any number of blazing bodies – logs burning with homely warmth in a living room hearth, a bonfire lit in ambiguous celebration of a failed regicide, a beacon to signal an alarm across breadth of an imperilled nation.

1 month ago | northernsoul.me.uk | Fran Yeoman |Megan E. Bond |Amy Stone

I usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make it into the copy. This time, however, I had to decompress. Josh Seymour’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire was just too good. It completely discombobulated me. I went with a new friend I don’t know that well, which caused an issue because I felt obliged to maintain some semblance of normality after the well-deserved standing ovation at the end.

Dec 15, 2024 | northernsoul.me.uk | Amy Stone

“Ey up!” shouts Pete McKee as I pick my way through boxes and wires at Sheffield’s Weston Park Museum. Ahead of McKee’s biggest exhibition to date, the space is still being dressed, drilled and drawn together. I’m here on the day before it opens and it’s safe to say that I’m proper excited, but also fairly terrified. I get nervous before interviewing people I’ve never heard of, let alone a Sheffield icon who is one of the city’s best-loved artists. Thankfully, McKee is a lovely bloke.

Nov 25, 2024 | northernsoul.me.uk | Helen Nugent |Eileen Jones |Amy Stone |Chris Wallis

Ah, The Three Musketeers. What can I say? I want lots, and I mean LOTS of sword fights, a very mean Cardinal Richlieu, a beautiful and scheming Milady, a diamond necklace, our three eponymous heroes and, central to it all, the gorgeous country bumpkin, terrific shagger and, um, expert swordsman D’Artagnan. With a great book, three movies and even a BBC radio dramatisation, Theresa Heskins’ own adaptation and production has a lot to live up to, and it nearly makes it.

Nov 23, 2024 | northernsoul.me.uk | Eileen Jones |Helen Nugent |Amy Stone |Robert Hamilton

It had just started raining when I met The Brunette in the bar at Fenix. There was a slight tension in the air as our teams were playing each other later that day. I was also a little nervous because the scuttlebutt about this new Greek place was not good. The Brunette mentioned “all fur coat and no knickers”. Meanwhile, I’d read reports about other Manchester restaurants baulking at customers coming in with LED lights and tripods to produce Instagram food porn.