As Sting’s musical The Ship sails to York this month, Yorkhire Post Theatre correspondent Nick Ahad caught up with the global superstar. Sting’s feeling a little spaced out. He was performing in Las Vegas last night, see, and took a sleeping tablet on the plane he stepped on after the gig. He’s now in Leeds a day later and about to head to the Leeds Grand Theatre to watch his new play The Last Ship...

On stage at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, a company of 18 actors playing English working-class people gather to belt out their final number, a reprise of a mighty anthem called When The Last Ship Sails. They gaze straight into the audience, as if inviting us to rush on stage and join them in their struggle; their voices are the voices of Tyneside...