Hyde Park Book Club Book Club is a great spot for either a chilled pint with friends or a great opportunity to pick up a book from their selection of great non-fiction and fiction. Over […]
Review: Around the World in 80 Days at Leeds Playhouse
Around the World in 80 Daysis showing at the Leeds Playhouse Pop Up Theatre, until the 28th April. As well as offering a thoroughly entertaining rendition of an old classic, whilst maintaining an impressive resemblance […]
Hamlet Review: Tessa Parr inspires in a re-gendered production
Hamlet can often seem like a play in danger of being over-done. With that said, through change and adaptation, this production achieves a fresh reinvigoration that is essential for a modern take on the classical […]
Random Review: Commonplace to Catastrophe
Debbie Tucker Green’s emotionally charged one-woman show Random came to Leeds Playhouse last week, over a decade after its first publication. Random is a response to the anxieties of a nation where mundane human experience […]
A Christmas Carol at Leeds Playhouse
Online Arts Editor Hannah Stokes reviews Deborah McAndrew’s theatre adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which is on at Leeds Playhouse until 13th January 2019 Although going to see Deborah McAndrew’s theatre adaptation of A Christmas Carol in […]
Greig’s Play Europe WIll Make You Reevaluate What Home Means
Set in a train station without any trains, David Greig’s border-town drama delves into issues of global conflict and local identity. Through the exploration of relationships and borders, those that are new, old, secure and […]
A Memorable Debut: Blackthorn Returns to Leeds Playhouse
‘What you think’s a completely different plant on surface – it’s all from the same roots.’ What is it about your first love? That overwhelming intensity that makes you feel as though you own one […]
A Modern Classic: Mother Courage and Her Children at Leeds Playhouse
Bertold Brecht’s 1939 play, Mother Courage and Her Children, is regarded as one of the greatest anti-war plays of all time, and in the midst of Europe facing a refugee crisis, Brecht’s tale of traumatic […]