…escaping to new adventures at curtain up…
Friday 23rd November 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adapting something so extraordinarily brilliant as this Charles Dickens masterpiece is surely a tough gig. A Christmas Carol is so rich with insight and detail that to do it justice in a stage adaptation is to ask an awful lot of the adaptor. Deborah... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 20th November 2018 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ My Mother Said I Never Should is a cross-generational story of four women dealing with a family secret. Written by Charlotte Keatley in the eighties and performed on stages regularly ever since, the play has an impressive longevity thanks to its clever combinations of ordinary folk... Continue Reading →
Monday 29th October 2018 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This stage adaptation of the hit Cruise-Hoffman tour de force film comes from Dan Gordon and sells itself on the dramatic tag line ‘Two Brothers. One Destiny.’ It’s very much a stage re-make of the original and there’s little in the way... Continue Reading →
Saturday 20th October 2018 at Nottingham Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This production of Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport marks the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransports which saved the lives of so many German children endangered by their Jewish faith and those raging against it in Nazi Germany. Children were transported to London and taken in by host families; many... Continue Reading →
Thursday 4th October 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blackthorn is a new work from Charley Miles exploring familiar territory which seems to be a growing focal point for contemporary writers: the way life choices can cause rifts between people so similar at the beginning of the tale. Those born in the same place... Continue Reading →
Friday 21st September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ‘Alas, poor Yorick!’ - in The Turk, we’re given something of an extended Hamlet-Yorick moment between our protagonist, Johann Maelzel and the head of the famous The Automaton Turk, a machine programmed through cogs and tech sorcery to play chess. Our speaker/indirect lecturer for... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 18th September 2018 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a world like ours and in times like these, we all need a little Priestley. To be a little more specific, we need a good dose of straight-talking from Priestley’s eponymous hero of An Inspector Calls. This is a play in two parts: part riveting,... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 11th September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Harrogate Theatre’s Rep Company switch their Boeing Boeing boarding passes for secret letters in their second show of the season: Dail M for Murder. Frederick Knott’s suspenseful cat and mouse tale was brought to the big screen by the great Alfred Hitchcock and is now brought to... Continue Reading →
Friday 7th September 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up Theatre) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jim Cartwright’s Road marks the first production to play in Leeds Playhouse’s Pop Up Theatre as well as the debut of their brand new Rep Company, directed here by Amy Leach. Going in knowing zilch but for the pitch, I think I was expecting... Continue Reading →
