Tuesday 19th August 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Michael Morpurgo’s celebrated novel has been a roaring success on stage for some years - and this latest touring production proves very quickly why that is. There’s an emotive magic to the story of a young boy and his deep connection with his horse, but there’s... Continue Reading →
Friday, 1st March 2024 at Theatre 41, York ⭐️⭐️ Foxglove Theatre’s Rabbit has an intriguing premise, promising marketing and sound talent carrying it, but it unfortunately doesn’t really marry these things together well enough. Billed as a dark exploration of childhood attachment and trauma, this show declares an invitation to audiences to “place the inner... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Artistic Director Kathleen Yore is all about the craft and all that goes into transporting audiences. Having formed Odd Doll in 2012 with the aim of telling visual, universally appealing stories through painstaking craft, she's been busy ever since doing exactly that. I was a huge fan of Seaside Terror after seeing it back in... Continue Reading →
Strangeface Theatre Company’s latest work, The Hit, is set to play at the University if York this Friday (November 8th) and the Leeds Carriageworks this Saturday (9th - tickets here). The award-winning company produce a broad range of shows which seek to make accessibility and the exploration of complex ideas their core. I caught up... Continue Reading →
February 2018 The ability of good design to capture different worlds, times and moods can make a production brilliant... a rickety or poorly conceived design can break a production by the same token. The resourceful minds behind extravagant, clever or intricate designs are names we should all know, so here’s a run down of my... Continue Reading →
Thursday 2nd February, 2017, at Harrogate Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loosely liken this production from Blackeyed Theatre to watching the metamorphosis of a butterfly - it's very apt for this analogy to have come to mind of course; Frankenstein does follow the tale of a man slowly but persistently learning how to create a unique creature.There's... Continue Reading →
Apollo Victoria Theatre, London. Saturday 10th September, 2016. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Wicked, based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, is fast approaching its tenth anniversary. In preparation, a brilliant anniversary cast has been selected, including the phenomenal Rachel Tucker as Elphaba and the hugely talented Suzie Mathers as Glinda. The pair have some of the best leading... Continue Reading →
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