…escaping to new adventures at curtain up…
Thursday 14th March 2019 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unsung is an excellent concept: four great women from different historical periods chewing the fat about just why it is that women have been (and still are) so under-appreciated. It’s a new play from Lisa Holdsworth and a strong cast of four fierce females take on... Continue Reading →
Monday 11th March 2019 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sparkplug is the latest touring work from Box of Tricks Theatre; a new play by David Judge which was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Award Best New Play Of the Year 2017. It’s not difficult to see why. The indefatigable Judge both writes and stars... Continue Reading →
Friday 22nd February at Harrogate Theatre (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ With polar opposite birth stories to tell, a pair of mums toss out the filters and share some home truths about the beauty and the brutality of birth. In Wild, Katie Villa and Laura Mugridge demand that we see women and mothers in real world terms rather... Continue Reading →
Thursday 24th January 2019 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Written and conceived by Elizabeth Carter and Directed by Jonathan O’Boyle, Between Us is a one woman show starring Carter as three varied women who all have one thing in common: terrible love lives and desire for better. Elizabeth is our central character. She’s a busy actress... Continue Reading →
My top theatre productions of 2018 are up! You can read them all here. But there’s more praise to go around when I look back at the performances and productions to have impressed over the last year. So, with no actual awards to deliver, here are my top cast and creatives of 2018, who shall... Continue Reading →
Friday 7th December 2018 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s December in Harrogate and the local theatre is in full buzzing swing. An audience of Brownies, Scouts and various other cute kids’ organisations are filling rows with swathes of uniformed little ‘uns and filling the air space with giggles and chatter. It’s panto time! The story?... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 25th September 2018 at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As far as modernising Shakespeare goes, this production is pretty top notch. Why? Because it feels fresh and authentic, with modernisation taking shape in costume, set and some subtle behaviours as opposed to being shoe-horned into the script in obtuse ways. Many a production falls into that... 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 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 →
