Tuesday 13th May 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff is a pretty dark look at the lacerating impact of unemployment in 1980s Liverpool. Based on the 1982 BBC drama (which I haven’t seen - I know, shocking really), this staging by James Graham follows the criss-crossing lives of out... Continue Reading →
March 2024 Taking a chance – and having a chat – with actor Rachel Stockdale Rachel Stockdale is bringing her funny and politically powerful show, “Fat Chance”, to Leeds Playhouse next month (April 5-6). The show is a one woman play written and performed by Rachel - a 'fat, benefit class northern actor' - who explores... Continue Reading →
Friday, 6th October 2023 at Leeds Playhouse (Courtyard Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If ever there was a “right time” to have I, Daniel Blake on stage, surely it’s now. Ken Loach’s 2016 film, with screenplay by Paul Laverty and on which this stage adaptation from Dave Johns is based, really rustled feathers, and rightly so. With its... Continue Reading →
August 2023 What happens when in the space of one year, your political parody videos take you viral (including a parody Liz Truss campaign video that actually gained more views than the original), you get to the semi-final of Britain’s Got Talent as part of a trio, and then see it all disappear without onward... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 22nd June 2021 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ August Strindberg’s original took on the politics of gender and class; Amy Ng’s new adaptation, set in 1940’s Hong Kong, adds colonialism and deep-rooted war scars into the mix. As the daughter of the British Governor, Miss Julie displays the worst flaws associated with a spoiled... Continue Reading →
Friday 6th March 2020 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alone in Berlin comes to the stage as Alistair Beaton’s translation and adaptation of Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel Every Man Dies Alone. Set in wartime Berlin as the Gestapo roam the streets with menace, the story is one which builds on details of the life and... Continue Reading →
Monday 23rd February 2020 at Leeds Playhouse (Bramall Rock Void). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Evelyn (Judith Jacob) is lighting candles on a Birthday cake when a ring of the doorbell brings Jackie (Penny Layden) out from the cold and into the fire as it were, placing her centre stage in a living room which periodically doubles as courtroom. ... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 4th February 2020 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Absurd anarchy abounds in the best possible way in Kneehigh’s latest offering. This 'promenade musical' and 'sing along satire' is a real mix - night club scene, street protest, circus act and avant-garde fearlessness come together to take us on a wild ride of satirical mudslinging. We’re... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 29th January 2020 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In seeing Leeds Playhouse’s latest offering, Doctor Janusz Korczak and his brilliant work are no longer in the realm of the unknown to me. We know that the plague of Nazi rule and the creation of places like The Warsaw Ghetto did bring many otherwise ‘ordinary’ individuals... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 18th October 2017 at West Yorkshire Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kneehigh's latest venture is Carl Grose's adaptation of Günter Grass' surreal novel The Tin Drum. It's a whirling frenzy of action and darkness which centres on the woes of the human condition through Oskar, a morose and magnetic youngster refusing to engage with a flawed world.... Continue Reading →
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