David Upton

North West News Editor and Reviewer

A school trip to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, at Manchester Library Theatre in the '60s, turned the head of a callow youth. A couple of years later, as an apprentice reporter in Altrincham, he began a love affair with theatre criticism, a passion generally undimmed by more than 50 years reviewing drama, dance and music around the region for evening newspapers in Stoke, Oldham, Blackpool and Preston. I see scores of productions annually, providing previews and reviews for print and online media throughout the North West. I have also been a part-time lecturer, in critical performance analysis, for drama degree students, and an occasional broadcaster on BBC Radio Lancashire.

David died in 2023.

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