Wednesday, 14th February 2024 at Harrogate Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Drawing on classic tropes of gothic tales and cinematic thrillers, and combining this with clever puppetry, Box Tale Soup Theatre’s Casting the Runes illustrates the versatility and impact of puppetry very nicely indeed. The show is an adaptation of M.R James’ ghost stories, and in it we... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 2nd December 2023 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Sarah Whitaker I took my partner and 5-year-old son to see Harrogate Theatre’s production of Dick Whittington and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Directed by Marcus Romer and co-written by David Brown and Phil Lowe, it delivers just the right amount of sparkle, laughter and classic panto... Continue Reading →
Friday, 29th September 2023 at the Wesley Centre, Harrogate (for Harrogate Theatre) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Smoking Apples Theatre’s Kinder is is beautiful show. Its beauty lies in the visual richness of the puppetry and inventive use of set throughout, but also in the quiet strength of Babi, whose story we see in a cross-section of childhood and... Continue Reading →
Friday April 21st 2023 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Forget About The Dog’s latest show returns their top notch inventiveness to the stage in a quirky ride through personalised simulations of “happy places”. In this vision of the future, the disenchanted general public are invited to step inside a street-side booth and spend a half... Continue Reading →
Friday 31st March 2023 at Harrogate Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Born, raised and residing in Yorkshire, John Godber has just the kind of grounding needed to write a comedy like this. Tapping affectionately into the frugal Yorkshireman stereotype, he offers an unapologetic commentary on the politics of now while painting a grim vision of 2033 Britain -... Continue Reading →
Saturday 26th November 2022 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Aladdin, tricky to stage but irresistible to programmers come Christmas season, brings a whole lot of fun to Harrogate with this production. With its charming ruffian lead and wronged princess, its very bad Bad Guy and very good Good Guys - and not forgetting the lovable genie... Continue Reading →
Saturday 8th October 2022 at Wesley Centre, Harrogate. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored is a heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat, thoroughly gripping two hander. It is incredibly powerful theatre. The premise is simple: when Reece calls out to his teacher for help while Police push his face into concrete, he expects help... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5th October 2022 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Friendsical, A Parody Musical is one of those shows… when it’s good, it’s great fun, and when it’s bad, it’s almost forgivable - parodying a beloved long-running TV series is no easy feat after all! Writer and lyricist Miranda Larson (who also directs) frames the narrative as... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 20th September 2022 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight is a classic 1930’s stage thriller. Set in 1880, the play follows a classically ill at ease Victorian wife and her classically dismissive Victorian husband as the pair navigate what appears to be her swift mental deterioration. Faye Weerasinghe is a likeable but very... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 13th September 2022 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Harrogate Theatre’s Rep Company are back with three plays over three weeks and they’re off to a flying start with their take on Abigail’s Party. As a sit-com taking aim at the minefield that is a polite social gathering with strangers, this play is full of golden... Continue Reading →
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