Dust is presented as one man’s story, but it is a lively tribute to the endurance, courage, and solidarity of generations of British coal miners and their families.

Murray Bramwell

Dust is a glimpse, a distilled chronicle of the arduous, but also exuberant, lives of Northern English working men. A return to the UK for an elderly aunt’s funeral in Yorkshire brought writer and director, Charlaina Thompson unexpectedly close to her family origins.

In particular, it was the exploits of …

Fearing her daughter won’t make captain of the school debating team an overzealous mother turns to drastic tactics to win the argument.

Murray Bramwell

Is there anything Martha Lott doesn’t do ? As well as hosting an outstanding range of Fringe shows at her Holden Street Theatres (check out the excellent Bob Marley, How Reggae Changed the World and Eat the Rich ) she has written, and features in, her own new play, The Debate.

It is a sharp and …