Daniel McVey

Florence Bell presents for your enjoyment a new adaptation of Chekhov’s naturalistic classic The Seagull. Instead of adapting the play in a traditional sense, director and writer Florence Bell has created a new piece of drama. Taking the final act and repeating it through the perspectives of four different...

Giant snakes, floating trees, dictatorships, and nurses armed with lightsabres. This might sound like the latest George Lucas film, but it is in fact Opera North’s newest version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute. While that may sound a little much, I can promise you it is all...

Taking a contemporary twist on an Early Modern classic, Daniel McVey’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is dangerous, dark and entrancing. “Faustus is frustrated by his thirst for knowledge and wisdom” First performed in 1597, Doctor Faustus tells the tale of a German intellectual who, seeking enlightenment, makes...

As this year’s fantastic NNT season continues to get better and better, we once again went behind the scenes to talk about the next performance, this time: Doctor Faustus, adapted by Director Daniel McVey. Already a fan of Marlowe’s well-known Doctor Faustus, when I heard that our very own...

The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is exactly what it says on the tin, a ridiculous laugh-filled comedy revolving around a heist. Though it struggles to ever become much more than that, it really does have some hidden gems. The set was ambitious, with huge moving scenery and some real wow...

Eccentric, random and unusually funny, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency tells the story of private investigator Dirk Gently who re-friends past university student, Richard MacDuff, to help solve the death of Richard’s magazine-owning boss, Gordon Way (Callum Walker). Written by James Goss and Arvind Ethan David, Dirk Gently’s Holistic...

The sixth collaboration between Lakeside Arts and Nottingham New Theatre presents a hilarious take on Alan Sommerstein’s translation of Lysistrata. The play incorporated singing, dancing, water pistols and even plastic penises, that kept the audience laughing from start to finish. Five years ago, Lakeside Arts and Nottingham New Theatre...