Eastside Arts Festival

I WAS lucky enough to see Howard Brenton's drama Anne Boleyn at the Naughton Studio last week and was blown away by the acting, direction and flair.

SHE has given herself a fat lip with the microphone and been stung in the armpit by a bee while on stage, but when channelling her alter-ego, June Carter, the show must always go on for Karen Martin.

THE summer festivals just keep on coming and Belfast's EastSide Arts Festival, running from August 4 to 14 is packed with a host of events for all ages.

REVIEW: Billy Boy at Strand Arts Centre, 7/8/2021 By Jane Hardy DURING lockdown, like many of us, playwright Rosemary Jenkinson has clearly been pondering the big questions, including identity.

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I've worked from home for years, so it hasn't been a major shock to the system.

Rachel Kennedy (46) is the director of the EastSide Arts Festival.

WHEN Anthony Toner co-wrote Six Inches of Water with Brigid O'Neill in 2017, he quickly realised that this new song about an east Belfast landmark resonated with audiences.

FATHERHOOD and lockdown have spun something of a creative cocoon around Northern Ireland 'hardman' of rock, Cormac Neeson, who is emerging from the experience not softer, exactly, but more malleable; more in tune, he says, with a vitally different rhythm to life.

1. Up and at it - what is your new morning routine? How has it changed? I have always tended not to rise too early as I often compose late into the night, so I'm usually up around eight o'clock or 8.