…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 →
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 →
Tuesday 2nd October 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Salt is a new work from writer and performer Selina Thompson and it should, and most likely will, leave you reeling. It’s difficult to step outside of the theatre and not think about this show and this woman all the way home to our own... 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 →
The West Yorkshire Playhouse as was is now in the hands of workmen, while the newborn Leeds Playhouse is set to kick off a new season at the temporary Pop Up Theatre while the renovation is underway. The pop up is a stone’s throw from the Playhouse’s usual entrance and it will house almost all... Continue Reading →
Friday 22nd June 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Searching for the Heart of Leeds is the final show produced by West Yorkshire Playhouse prior to its major re-development. It marks a crossover from West Yorkshire Playhouse to the Leeds Playhouse rebrand and the production mirrors that sense of departure and arrival;... Continue Reading →
