…escaping to new adventures at curtain up…
Thursday 13th July 2017 at West Yorkshire Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Written by Inua Ellams and directed by Bijan Sheibani, Barber Shop Chronicles (a co-production of West Yorkshire Playhouse, the National Theatre and Fuel) is a rare kind of production; one which explores uncovered ground, exposes unseen environments with insight and offers something genuinely fresh and compelling.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 11th July 2017 at RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Well, Oddsocks have gone and done it again! Approaching one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet, they decided, naturally, to frame the whole story as a Mods and Rockers themed farce. Does that work? Well, yes actually! In the beautiful outdoor setting of... Continue Reading →
The Carriageworks (studio), Leeds. Saturday 8th July, 2017. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unspoken, from Leeds Arts Centre, is an important piece of new writing; Neil Rathmell and Trudy Stewart have produced the play under the guidance of members of the local stammering community and the British Stammering Association. The drama draws attention to a sector of society not... Continue Reading →
Thursday 29th June, 2017 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️ While Pick Me Up Theatre's Gypsy features some fine talent in Maren Fagerås Nævdal, playing Louise, and Maya Tether, playing Dainty June, it doesn't have enough to support a fatally under-rehearsed production. The talented pair play the pawns in their mother's game of chess... Continue Reading →
Saturday 24th June 2017 at Harrogate Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 Golem is likely like nothing you'll have ever seen before. In fact, watching anything from the theatre company 1927 is likely like nothing you'll have ever seen before. I discovered them back in 2013 and they instantly worked their way into my mental list of favourite theatre... Continue Reading →
Saturday 10th June, 2017 at Birmingham Pizza Express Live. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From Belfast to Birmingham Rachel Tucker has delighted audiences on the 12 date UK leg of her first solo tour, which went out with one hell of a belt and a cheer yesterday evening in Birmingham. Directed by Guy Retallack and joined on stage by... Continue Reading →
Thursday 8th June, 2017 at Harrogate Theatre (studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Uncanny Theatre's Something Terrible Might Happen explores the things that frighten us, and does so with buckets of fun. It touches briefly on emotional fears and anxieties but excels in its Fun House approach to the irrational and the adrenaline-filled fears that we have. Relying heavily... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th June 2017 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Elephant and Castle is a gig-theatre show which explores the humour, the confusion and the darker side of sleep walk and sleep talk. Real-life couple Tom Adams and Lillian Henley use recordings from three years of sleep talk as the catalyst for songs and narrative snippets... Continue Reading →
Saturday 3rd June, 2017 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ La Cage Aux Folles is the work of creators Arthur Laurents, Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman and this production of the long-standing classic is directed by Martin Connor - the show has enjoyed huge success since the 1980s and I hope to see more... Continue Reading →
