Category: Features – Archive

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…

July 17, 2014 / Features - Archive

In the best Gypsy fashion Stochelo Rosenberg is in his caravan when we speak on the telephone. The caravan is in the little French town of Samois-sur-Seine, which, being where the great Gypsy (or Roma) jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt died, holds an annual festival in his honour. Rosenberg is there…