When James Grieve and George Perrin took over as Artistic Directors of touring theatre company Paines Plough in February 2010, it must have been with a certain amount of trepidation. Certainly, the company had a 37-year history as a foremost exponent of new writing that the pair had to live up to and, with such…
Is love all we need? The Beatles would have us believe so but can love also be a destructive force? In Mike Bartlett’s epic Love, Love, Love, we get an panoramic vista at one couple’s relationship across 40 years. Here the course of true love certainly doesn’t run smooth. In 1967, 19-year-old Sandra is on…
Now under new management, champions of new writing Paines Plough are presenting a series of shows around the country asking local writers to examine their local environment. For the Ipswich leg of Come To Where I’m From we are treated to four short views on life in East Anglia. Perhaps worryingly for the East of…
Now under new management, champions of new writing Paines Plough are presenting a series of shows around the country asking local writers to examine their local environment. For the Ipswich leg of Come To Where I’m From we are treated to four short views on life in East Anglia. Perhaps worryingly for the East of…