Alison Benstead

TOXIC AT SUBSTATION QTOPIA : AN INTIMATE PORTRAYAL OF LOVE AND HEARTBREAK

Robyn Roelandts / 24 April 2026

TOXIC is a story set in Manchester during the era of AIDS and deftly navigates the issues for gay men around sex and being HIV positive, the impact of PrEP medication and how love and expectations and shame and trauma …

Theatre

a midsummer night’s dream: warmth on a winter night

Judith Greenaway / 1 July 2018

Thoroughly enjoyed it and so it seemed did the rest of the audience, including some small ones dressed up for the occasion as faeries. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM from Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society is an interesting, cohesive concept, …