Of all the best-known European fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is arguably the most problematic. The story of a young mermaid who leaves behind everything she has ever known, changes her appearance, […]
A Chorus Line – hold on to your sparkly golden hats, the West End is coming to Leeds
The Stage Musical society hold a concrete reputation for being one of the best performance societies around, and they certainly maintained that incredible reputation in their latest production of A Chorus Line. Director Sophie Roberts […]
The controversial musical: A new outlet for the offensive?
Since its creation in 2011, The Book of Mormon has wowed audiences both on Broadway and the West End, but what makes it so successful and why do audiences revel in its controversial content? The […]
Get in line for Stage Musical Society’s A Chorus Line
The tremendously talented Stage Musical Society prepare to mesmerise us once again, with their magnificent new production: ‘A Chorus Line’. In connection with Back Stage society, this latest spectacle will take over the stage in […]
Thought can be seen in the tiniest detail in Musical Theatre Society’s Addams Family
Have you ever welled up over a man in a bald cap serenading a parasol? If not, then you must have missed Musical Theatre’s production of the macabre Addams Family Musical. Sleek and comic, the […]
Trespass establishes intrigue and pulls the audience slowly in
Trespass is an original theatre piece conceived, written and produced entirely by the Wonky Spoon Theatre Company, in conjunction with the Little Leeds Fringe. Performed in stage@leeds’ Alec Clegg Room (a smaller, more intimate venue […]
Open Theatre’s Metamorphosis
Open Theatre Society made the most of the title and central theme of their latest production. Metamorphosis is a play by Steven Berkoff based on the novella of the same name by Franz Kafka. It […]
Blue Remembered Hills may have a childish premise, but this production is more than accomplished
When describing the premise of Blue Remembered Hills to anyone that hasn’t seen the play you run the risk of it sounding like the kind of dramatic piece an over-pretentious sixteen-year-old may come up for […]
NT Live’s Treasure Island is driven by moral ambuguity
A treasure hunt with female pirates! Drawing on traditional and contemporary features of childhood adventure stories, the National Theatre recently livestreamed their production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Treasure Island. Yet despite its oft-ludicrous […]
Dark of the Moon’s black humour is truly captivating
We’ve all become accustomed to supernatural beings as the lead protagonist in shows; from TV to film and even theatre too, characters often come in the form of vampires, werewolves or witches, but it is […]
Theatre Preview – Open Theatre’s Metamorphosis
AN all-female production of Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Kafka’s classic Metamorphosis opens at Leeds University’s campus theatre Stage@Leeds next week. Open Theatre’s innovative and thought-provoking new production promises to be an exciting and bold piece […]
The Weather Machine could blow you away – literally
‘A Tiny Light In The Fog – A Hidden Message On The Wind’ – The message on the front of the leaflet is as obscure as the play itself. Surrounded in secrecy and presented only […]