Actress Maxine Peake inspires drama students in Chorley Actress Maxine Peake inspires drama students in Chorley Jim Cartwright and Tracy Higgins, of Cartwright Drama Studio with actress Maxine Peake (centre) when she came to give a masterclass to students at the studio in Chorley. STAR actress Maxine Peake, who has appeared in drama programmes Silk and Shameless, has been lending…
Playwright Jim Cartwright plans ‘theatre of head, heart and two fingers’ Warren Brown and Julie Hesmondhalgh will appear in the company’s first performance Jim Cartwright, writer of such plays as The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and Road, is forming his own theatre company, to be based at Salford University’s new £55m arts centre. The Jim Cartwright Theatre Company…
‘Time for change’ ‘Time for change’: Encouraging working class actors to rise again Jim Cartwright (centre) leading an exercise with one of his drama groups From Dame Julie Walters to David Morrissey, many top showbusiness names have voiced concerns about a lack of working class actors. Now leading playwright Jim Cartwright is doing something to fix the problem. There is…
