Wednesday 16th October 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Charley Miles’ There are No Beginnings is pretty stellar new work. Set in a time of apathetic approaches to women’s voices and performed in the era of #MeToo and the rising up of women across every industry and day to day experience, it makes for an incredibly... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd March 2018 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal have joined to bring this dark and brooding adaptation of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock to the stage. Adapted by Bryony Lavery and directed by Esther Richardson, Brighton Rock offers a dramatic play which falls somewhere between Peaky Blinders and Bugsy... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 11th April, 2017 at West Yorkshire Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Michael Morpurgo's 'Running Wild' tells many stories, but is framed around a little girl named Lilly who takes a trip to Indonesia with her mother after her father's death. There is subsequently a tsunami and the elephant Lilly is riding (Oona) runs off into the jungle... Continue Reading →
Every year I spend time sifting through the season promises of local theatres, hoping to find something to take students to see. Every year I am disappointed. What's the trick that UK theatres are missing? The ever constant need for stagings of GCSE and A Level English texts (among others). Hundreds of thousands of school-age... Continue Reading →
Friday 15th July, 2016, at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It is the infinitely creative style of this company and their impressive approach to a piece that continues to allure; anything fresh and different, anything that is explorative and dynamic, is a great pull for me and Square Peg do this so well. As I mentioned in... Continue Reading →
