Friday, 19th April 2024 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nicki Davy writes and stars in this very personal show - Eva - inspired by a box of items her mother found in the attic of Granny Ilse - Eva’s sister. This box proved a treasure trove and prompted historical research into the life of Eva Metzger... Continue Reading →
Review: Diana, The Untold and Untrue Story
Thursday, 18th April 2024 at the King’s Head Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Amassing a cult following from its Edinburgh Fringe 2023 run, Diana, The Untold and Untrue Story solidifies Awkward Productions' uniquely wacky and unhinged formula. As always, they manage to make the audience laugh until they cry through whatever means necessary. Enlisting... Continue Reading →
Review: The Syndicate at Leeds Grand Theatre
Thursday, 18th April 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kay Mellor’s The Syndicate has made its way from screen to stage with this play, with daughter Gaynor Faye directing in her late mother’s honour. Based on Series 1 of the hit TV series, this show follows a number of ordinary folk trying to make ends... Continue Reading →
Review: Drop the Dead Donkey – The Reawakening! (Touring)
Tuesday, 9th April 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Kirsty M Drop the Dead Donkey, the award-winning 1990s satirical comedy has been reimagined for a 2024 audience in the stage play Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! Old enough to remember the original show, I went with my Gen Z daughter, unsure whether the play... Continue Reading →
Review: Bouncers (Touring)
Friday, 5th April 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ John Godber’s Bouncers remains a show which brings in audiences time and again, with a fresh tour launching fairly regularly over the years. With its sharp observations of club culture, gender politics and dynamics within the meat market that is a night on the town, this... Continue Reading →
Review: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Thursday 28th March 2024 at Marlebone Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dorfman Prolific writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man was first published in 1877. It isn’t the most light-hearted tale. Dostoevsky’s work famously explores the human condition in the troubled political climate of 19th-century Russia. It is, however, a story that can... Continue Reading →
Review: Queenz, The Show with Balls (Touring)
Friday, 22nd March 2024 at York Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Five vivacious drag queens rule the roost in this lively and cheeky show with one clear intention: give the audience a top night out. Queenz - The Show with Balls, directed by David Griego and Kieran Powell, feels celebratory and uplifting, bringing the best of drag... Continue Reading →
Review – Austen’s Women: Lady Susan (Touring)
Saturday, 16th March 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jane Austen’s women are some of the most entertaining characters to be found within the pages of classic novels, and the wit and intelligence of her writing shines brightly in Dyad Productions’ Lady Susan. Drawing on key missives from Austen’s epistolary novel and playing every... Continue Reading →
Review: Cluedo 2 (Touring)
Tuesday, 12th March 2024 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️ Cluedo (the stage play) is back with a second instalment, promising a brand new plot and a new take on the characters. This time? Writers Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks take us to a country manor house owned by a fizzling-out rocker, circa 1968. And who’s... Continue Reading →
Review: Northern Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet (Touring)
Friday, 8th March 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Of all of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular choices for adaptations across art forms. The tale of “star-crossed lovers” captures imaginations in ways that few other stories have - and Sergei Prokofiev’s music is a glowing example. Shakespeare’s central threads... Continue Reading →