Saturday, 13th May 2023 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️ John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, once a GCSE text staple (remember the spoilers helpfully left behind in the margins by the outgoing Year 11 students?), is currently finishing up its tour at Leeds Playhouse. Following an unlikely pairing of itinerant workers during the Great Depression, this... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 11th May 2023 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️ Billed as “a company of flea-bitten actors” who “try and fail to live up to their on-stage personas” in 1687, Bang Average Theatre’s Dirty Corset offers a loose but fun premise with early signs of the hygiene-averse brand of humour awaiting us. This is a tongue-in-cheek,... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 9th May 2023 at York Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s catty, there’s bitchy, and then there’s Heathers The Musical: “mythic bitch” central. With book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, and based on the 1988 film by Daniel Waters, this show is a darkly comic look at the sacrifices... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 4th May 2023 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The world of modern dating: connection online, awkward first meetings and the inevitable gamble taken on whether or not anything will come of it. Gus Gowland’s warm-hearted new musical, Mayflies, follows a pairing who are meeting up for the first time after two years of chatting... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 2nd May 2023 at Southwark Playhouse, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Note: mild spoilers ahead! All too often, when we introduce both the personal and the political into a piece of theatre, it can come across as self-serving and undeniably cringe-worthy. Blanket Ban, without a doubt, is not that show. Through this verbatim 2-hander... Continue Reading →
Friday 28th April 2023 at the Finborough Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Retreat is reminiscent of much of the realist dramas that North American audiences seemingly couldn't get enough of in the early 2000s. Most of the time, it reads less theatrical and nearly slice-of-life. As much as the 4-person cast and the... Continue Reading →
Mayflies is a new musical by Gus Gowland – a contemporary love story that tells the story of a romantic relationship from its first flourish to its final goodbye. Three actors – Nuno Queimado, Rumi Sutton & Emma Thornett - alternate the roles of May and Fly, with each pairing providing a different perspective on... Continue Reading →
Iqbal Khan is an Associate Director of Birmingham Rep, an Associate Artist of Box Clever Theatre Company, and was Artistic Director of the 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. He is also the director of Of Mice and Men, which runs at Leeds Playhouse from 11-27 May 2023. Here, Iqbal talks to Kerry Endsor about how... Continue Reading →
Monday, April 24th 2023, at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ To date, this fabulous show has had quite a journey and some impressive success. Way back in 2018, Isobel McArthur penned a lively, playfully irreverent adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic with Glasgow audiences in mind. Fast-forward to 2023, and the show (with a... Continue Reading →
Friday April 21st 2023 at Harrogate Theatre (Studio) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Forget About The Dog’s latest show returns their top notch inventiveness to the stage in a quirky ride through personalised simulations of “happy places”. In this vision of the future, the disenchanted general public are invited to step inside a street-side booth and spend a half... Continue Reading →
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