Thursday 16th May 2019 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Four young girls from various walks of life. One thing in common: they’re knocked up in the 60s without a ring to show for it. Cue the secretive ‘home’ tucked away in some remote area where the girls are cut off from friends and... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 5th March 2019 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A female Hamlet? A northern tragedy? Multiple gender switches? Leeds Playhouse’s latest Shakespeare offering is a finely tuned combination of exactly that. As Shakespeare’s longest play, Hamlet is in so many cases numbingly over-long and mercilessly dark, but thankfully, Amy Leach’s direction and approach to... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 6th February 2019 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In random, Debbie Tucker Green really gets to the heart of just how hard hitting unexpected tragedy is. On a random day which only shows sign of discord in the way the weather typically can’t make up its mind, lives change without an inkling if... Continue Reading →
Monday 28th January 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kes is based on Barry Hines’ 1968 novel A Kestral for a Knave which was subsequently adapted for the screen under the title Kes, from which this stage adaptation follows (adapted by Robert Alan Evans). Once a staple for study in schools and a popular film to... Continue Reading →
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 →
