Autumn 2008 customer feedback

As many of you know, after every performance we send out a survey via email to all the people who booked. Over the last year and a bit, we've built up a huge database of customer's comments on the theatre, on the service and on the shows.

We do this because we want to know what you like and what you don't, so we can carry on providing you with the kind of experience you would come back to Northern Stage for. That means that sometimes we hear things we need to, things we don't want to, and things we disagree with. Even so, we still want to hear them and we think that you'll be interested in hearing them too.

Therefore, you'll find below links to the complete set of customer feedback comments for each of the shows since September. They're in PDF format, as most people will have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed. Please take the time to read them, and use the comments section below to give us your thoughts. We've not edited them at all, except to remove customers names for purposes of anonymity.

In time, all these will be added into the Archive section, helping to build a history of the shows we've put on and received. Look out for feedback running back to September 2007 over the Christmas period.

Hofesh Shechter: In Your Rooms/Uprising
Northern Stage: The Bloody Chamber
ETT: Far From the Madding Crowd
Freedom Studios: Happy & Married?
Theatre O: Delirium
metisARTS: Four Men and a Poker Game

Vote for Northern Stage

The Journal Culture Awards 2008 with Arts Council England, North East have launched.

Any event, exhibition, performance or activity taking place between December 1st 2007 and December 31st 2008 is eligible for nomination in the 2008 Culture Awards.

If you've enjoyed any of the shows we've brought to the stage over the last year, then please take a moment to nominate us. You might suggest one of our shows for Best Performance, or one of the cast for Best Performing Artist. Is Stephen Sharkey (A Christmas Carol and Hansel & Gretel) your Writer of the Year? Do you think Susan Mulholland (Tattercoats and The Goblin Who Saved Christmas) is the Newcomer of the Year? What about the Wang Qingsong residency for Best Event or the Arts Council Award?

You can find out more here

Our eligible shows: (you can click each one to remind yourself all about it, as well as see the production galleries)

A Christmas Carol
Our Friends in the North (at Durham Gala)
A Doll's House
The Bloody Chamber
The Goblin Who Saved Christmas

The Bloody Chamber: Matinee added / Production shots

Due to the sell-out success of The Bloody Chamber, we've added a Saturday matinee on 11 October at 2pm. You can book online or by calling our Box Office on 0191 230 5151.

Tickets are not available for any other performance.

Visit the show page and you'll also be able to see a selection of production shots.

The Bloody Chamber playtext

To celebrate our production of The Bloody Chamber, Oberon Books are publishing a limited edition programme playtext of Bryony Lavery's new script. We've secured 300 copies to sell at the special price of just £3.50 each (£8.99 RRP).

Buy your copy now, and it will be held for collection with your tickets.

Workshops update

Being off-site, you don't often see or hear much from our workshops team, but they're the people behind all the fantastic sets you'll see in our shows as well as the same team who designed and made much of the furniture you'll find around the building.

At the moment they're hard at work building the set for The Bloody Chamber, which amongst other things features this custom made Grand Piano. You can click on the images for larger versions.





What you may not realise is that they also build a lot of commissioned work. They've recently built a giant disco wardrobe which is being taken to Edinburgh for The Gymnast, and they're hard at working building the set for Skellig at the Sage Gateshead, based on a design by Rea Smith. You can see photos of the model box below.







Thanks to Mike Wymark, Head of Workshops for the photographs.