Christopher Hunter News

A legendary graphic designer who worked with some of the biggest names in rock and pop is to have his incredible career highlights exhibited in his hometown.

The performance ambles between overly physical and shackled by stillness. Hunter delivers the difference in characters through caricatural vocal modulations, which redundancy adds Venus’s excessive flamboyancy in an annoying chain of vapid banality. We come out of it with very little. He is a visibly passionate performer, but his trepidation doesn’t truly transfer to the audience. It almost makes us want to ask what exactly is going on. What’s with the sudden makeup? Why is he dressed like a businessman with plimsolls? Why is he telling us all this? “So quick bright things come to confusion.”

In 1592 Shakespeare's career as a dramatist had barely got off ground when a severe outbreak of the plague forced London's theatres to close. He turned his hand to poetry and the result was Venus and Adonis, an epic poem that became his first published work and the best seller of its day!

Gillian Dean (Crystal Clear, Old Red Lion; Home Fires, ITV) and Robin Paley Yorke (My Darling Christopher, Hot Coals) have been cast in the premiere of States of Mind, which penetrates the dark heart of Shakespeare's sensationally successful poem, Venus and Adonis. 

With an impressive body of work including Sherlock, 51st State, Mr Selfridge, Silent Witness, The Bill and Dracula, leading theatre, television and film actor Christopher Hunter makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year, in his new solo interpretation of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at C Venues Hill Street.

With an impressive body of work including Sherlock, 51st State, Mr Selfridge, Silent Witness, The Bill and Dracula, leading theatre, television and film actor Christopher Hunter makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut this year, in his new solo interpretation of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis at C Venues Hill Street.

In Ricardo Pitts-Wiley's holiday musical, Chatty's Place had been a legendary Rhode Island night club.

BBC Cuff's Jacob Ifan will make his professional theatrical debut in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens', A TALE OF TWO CITIES at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre from Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 October 2016.

The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Royal & Derngate Northampton are pleased to announce full casting for Charles Dickens' literary masterpiece A TALE OF TWO CITIES, opening at Royal & Derngate on Saturday 10 September 2016, with a national press night on Wednesday 14 September, and touring the UK until November.

Spellbound Productions present IN LAMBETH, written by Jack Shepherd, directed by Michael Kingsbury and designed by Ruth Sutcliffe. Opening night is slated for today, 11 July 2014 at 7.30pm, with the regular run continuing through Saturday 2 August 2014 (one preview 10 July).

Spellbound Productions present IN LAMBETH, written by Jack Shepherd, directed by Michael Kingsbury and designed by Ruth Sutcliffe. Opening night is slated for Friday, 11 July 2014 at 7.30pm, with the regular run continuing through Saturday 2 August 2014 (one preview 10 July).