Publicity photographs taken for the playwright Anusia Battersby during the techical rehearshal of 'Old Tricks' at 53Two in Manchester.   This was another shoot that occurred as a consequence of working on Sign of Omission. Theatre Photography: Mike Beard

Dracula - directed by Ben Hanley. I was delighted to be asked by an actor from a previous shoot, 'As The Bombs Fall', to photograph this play at Guide Bridge Theatre. Theatre Photography: Mike Beard

Chorlton Players are a long-running local theatre group and it was a pleasure to photograph their performance of Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett. Director: Rohan Shenoy. Producer: Juliet Ashton. Theatre Photographer: Mike Beard

A fellow disc golfer invited me up to Colne to photograph the musical Chicago by Stagedoor Youth Theatre.  Definitely my biggest production to date! Director: Janet Philbrook Musical director: Matt Leedam Choreography: Amy Ansell and Janet Philbrook Theatre photography: Mike Beard

War doesn’t end when the fighting stops. It lingers – in the bodies left behind, in the silence of those who turned away. Paradise isn’t just a retelling of an ancient myth; it’s a mirror held up to our own fractured world. Kae Tempest, one of the most urgent voices of our time, rewrites Philoctetes not as a hero’s tale, but as a scream against the machine: What happens to the broken when the system discards them? Director: Tom Gilbert - Chorlton Players. Theatre Photography: Mike Beard