Nick Ahad

Journalist and Radio Presenter at BBC Radio Leeds

Writes: stage, screen, print: https://t.co/708dGbUWMZ Talks: @BBCFrontRow @BBCLeeds Agent: @CulverAgency

Articles

Takeaway review - enormously fun family drama is full of heart

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Nick Ahad

This play by Nathan Powell, appointed creative director at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse last year after Suba Das’s departure, is not a tightly structured, slick affair. But, directed by Amanda Huxtable, it is enormous fun, full of heart and undeniably entertaining. If this first play is a measure of his ambition, Powell intends to be a crowd-pleaser. Takeaway wouldn’t be out of place in the unabashedly popular Royal Court across town.
Gary Oldman: Hollywood megastar performing at York Theatre Royal meets Nick Ahad

1 month ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Nick Ahad

Why is an Oscar winner with one of the most storied movie careers of any British actor of the past fifty years taking to the stage at York Theatre Royal in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape? The 18th century theatre is a beautiful venue, but it only holds 750 people. Oldman’s movies have grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. The ‘why’ of it is persistent. Why has it taken 40 years for him to return to the stage? Why here? Why this play? It turns out for Oldman, it’s personal.
A Doll’s House review – stark production lifts the lid on Ibsen’s box of secrets

Sep 28, 2024 | msn.com | Nick Ahad

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A Doll’s House review - stark production lifts the lid on Ibsen’s box of secrets

Sep 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nick Ahad

Perhaps the best thing to do with a play that is approaching its 150th birthday and still earning a place on contemporary stages is simply to get out of the way. Unless you have a Jamie Lloyd-style take and Jessica Chastain on speed dial, there probably isn’t a good enough reason to add bells and whistles to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
War Horse review – still one of British theatre’s most phenomenal creations

Sep 22, 2024 | msn.com | Nick Ahad

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War Horse review - still one of British theatre’s most phenomenal creations

Sep 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nick Ahad

Joey, the eponymous hero of War Horse, is surely one of British theatre’s most magical creations. On encountering the enormous beast a sort of myopia descends on the viewer and you stop seeing the three performers it takes to operate the puppet (here Rianna Ash, head, Chris Milford, heart and Thomas Goodridge, hind). All you see is Joey.
A Taste of Honey review – Shelagh Delaney’s grenade explodes again

Mar 22, 2024 | msn.com | Nick Ahad

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A Taste of Honey review – Shelagh Delaney’s 50s grenade explodes again

Mar 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Nick Ahad

Gather a group of writers together and they will soon be complaining about the question producers inevitably pose about their projects: “Why now?” It’s a fair question, and one that needs to be posed when reviving a play – such as Shelagh Delaney’s defining work A Taste of Honey, first staged in 1958. On its premiere, the play was a sensation. It now makes its way back to the stage at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, not far from where it is set, in Delaney’s home town of Salford.
Red Ladder revive miners' strike play We're Not Going Back

Mar 14, 2024 | msn.com | Nick Ahad

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The Crucible review – a deeply affecting take on Arthur Miller’s American classic

Mar 10, 2024 | msn.com | Nick Ahad

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