Maxine Peake
Kit by Megan Barker audiobook review – the wildness of true friendship laid bare
Maxine Peake narrates a profoundly moving and unsparing hybrid memoir that explores unconditional love, in all its messiness
Fiona Sturges
18, Aug, 2023 @11:00 AM
They review – Maxine Peake’s powerful delivery leaves us wanting more
The actor’s controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised
Arifa Akbar
07, Jul, 2023 @10:05 AM
‘I need to do this’: Maxine Peake on her daring dystopia play performed in a library
Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester
Kate Wyver
30, Jun, 2023 @1:00 PM
Christopher Eccleston: it would be impossible for me to become an actor today
Theatres such as now-closed Oldham Coliseum vital for northern working-class people, says actor
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill
01, Apr, 2023 @4:05 PM
Last night at Oldham Coliseum: a joyful, funny and furious farewell
Maxine Peake and Christopher Eccleston among performers as venue put on final show after losing Arts Council funding
Nick Ahad
01, Apr, 2023 @10:15 AM
Maxine Peake hits out at threat to ‘vital, vibrant’ Oldham Coliseum
Actor accuses government of ‘further dividing communities’ as 138-year-old theatre faces closure after losing £1.8m grant
Safi Bugel
22, Feb, 2023 @11:27 AM
A desire for Streetcar: the enduring allure of Tennessee Williams’s tantalising classic
Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran battle it out in the Almeida’s new production of a poetic drama whose ambiguity is enthralling
Michael Billington
03, Jan, 2023 @6:48 PM
Betty! A Sort of Musical review – fitfully funny take on the life of Betty Boothroyd
Co-writer Maxine Peake stars as an am-dram actor playing the former Commons speaker in Sarah Frankcom’s end-of-the-pier-style production
Clare Brennan
18, Dec, 2022 @11:30 AM
Betty! A Sort of Musical review – Maxine Peake brings Boothroyd’s story to the stage
A slightly wonky meta structure involving a team of amdram actors muddles this show about the former MP but it has abundant charm
Catherine Love
09, Dec, 2022 @11:48 AM
The week in TV: Euphoria; Rules of the Game; Screw; After Life
Euphoria’s crazy teens return wilder than ever; the BBC’s new workplace drama should’ve kept things at the office; and it’s goodbye to Ricky Gervais’s tonally strange After Life
Barbara Ellen
16, Jan, 2022 @9:30 AM
Rules of the Game review – Maxine Peake is barnstorming in a rich, meaty murder mystery
There’s more than workplace sexual politics at stake in this tale of harassment, porn and misogyny: this excellent drama is about the reality of women everywhere
Lucy Mangan
11, Jan, 2022 @10:00 PM
TV tonight: Maxine Peake takes on office sexual politics in Rules of the Game
The national treasure stars as a COO forced to take a hard look at her workplace. Plus: eager archaeologists wrap up the series in Digging for Britain. Here’s what to watch this evening
Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale and Ali Catterall
11, Jan, 2022 @6:00 AM
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