Category: Features – Archive

September 13, 2014 / Features - Archive

The trombone player of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Moises Nogueras, is still considered a new boy. He’s been a member for 23 years. Singer Charlie Aponte has now clocked up 41 years – nearly two-thirds of his life – in the Gran Combo. Yet he, too, was once…

August 30, 2014 / Features - Archive

When Anna Volska was offered a role in Campion Decent’s new play, Unholy Ghosts, she says she was terrified. The reason seems improbable, but in fact Volska, once such a regular, has not been seen on a stage for nearly 10 years. She even doubted her ability to memorise the…

August 17, 2014 / Features - Archive

Sandra Bates will step down as Ensemble Theatre’s artistic director at the end of 2015, having clocked up 30 years in the job. Her successor, the current co-artistic director Mark Kilmurry, will be only the third incumbent since Hayes Gordon founded the company 1958. Bates is primarily quitting because she…