Review: The Roses of Whitechapel at Theatre 41 Monkgate

Saturday, 20th April 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Five women have their stories forever intertwined with Jack the Ripper: Mary Ann ’Polly’ Nichols, ‘Dark Annie’ Chapman, Elizabeth ‘Long Liz’ Stride, Catherine Eddows and Mary Jane Kelly. In The Roses of Whitechapel, writers Jonathan Kaufman and Martin Stiff give the murdered women a platform... Continue Reading →

Review: Rabbit at Theatre@41, York

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 →

Review: Beyond Caring at Theatre @41 Monkgate

Tuesday, 6th February 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angie Millard directs this production of Alexander Zeldin’s 2014 drama with a keen focus on the sympathetic elements of Zeldin’s characters. Beyond Caring is a pointed, well-observed glimpse at an undervalued workforce, and The York Actor’s Collective do well to stage such a static piece... Continue Reading →

Review: And Then There Were None at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York

Wednesday, 27th September 2023 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️ In this particular “whodunnit” from the great Agatha Christie, ten strangers find themselves thrown together (by invitation) at a rural estate on an island. Each has done wrong and each must pay a price. Gradually, they begin to drop like flies and in line with... Continue Reading →

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