After much critical success, DV8’s latest production, JOHN arrived at the West Yorkshire Playhouse – the last stop in the UK before taking the dance theatre piece to Poland. JOHN was conceived using stimulus consolidated […]
Review: Call Mr Robeson comes to Leeds
There was only one Paul Robeson. Ranking among the few real renaissance men of the twentieth century he was an accomplished athlete, lawyer, singer and actor. His notable roles include Shakespeare’s Othello and O’Neill’s Emperor […]
Review: We Want You To Watch
The title being no misnomer, We Want You To Watch demanded its audience’s undivided attention for the seventy-five minutes that it took for this liberating piece to thrust its vision on to us: a world […]
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Mouths Of Lions are a young theatre collective hailing from Camden, and on Thursday 8th October they performed their first show outside of London in the university’s own Workshop Theatre, which was a pretty big […]
Review: Richard III at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s adaption of Shakespeare’s Richard III is likely to be one of their biggest draws this season, as it should be. After all, Shakespeare can be argued to be the linchpin of […]
Preview: Leeds Light Night – 09/10/15
Welcome to Leeds. Over the next few weeks you’ll start to find your feet in this artful city. You’ll soon decide where to drink, where to see shows and where to absorb culture. Of course […]
Ed Fringe Review – The Worry Monster
Raymond Noon’s life is full of self-doubt, crippling social self-awareness, and… cardboard. It is within this setting that we explore the impact that social anxiety takes on our washed-up protagonist and on those closest to […]
Ed Fringe Update – Untold Wars
203theatre’s new musical Untold Wars wasn’t something I had planned on going to see at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. I only decided to go halfway through my time up here when I met one […]
Ed Fringe Update – The Five Drinks Play
Dating – at the best of times – is awkward. At least it has been in my experience and it certainly is in the case of Dylan Moon. On a drinks date with self-confident yuppie […]
‘After the End’ Press Release
Image: Camila Castaneda The apocalypse was scheduled for Tuesday at precisely 12 noon, but when the clock finally struck the end did not come. Frances and Zelda hooked up after an office flirtation and were ready […]
Interview ‘The 56’ director, Matt Stevens-Woodhead
Image: Joseph Priestley As Bradford City prepares to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of a fire that killed 56 people, a young theatre company based in Yorkshire is re-telling the tragedy through the eyes of those who […]
‘The 56’ is respectful and compelling
Image: Joseph Priestley 11th May 1985 is a date that will be deeply engraved in West Yorkshire history, for all the wrong reasons. It was supposed to be a day of celebration for Bradford City […]