Jargon by Open Theatre is a hilarious piece of new writing by Kieran Bose Rosling, showing this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Banham Theatre. Rosling’s experience as a medical student brought this play to […]
Review: Open Theatre’s Being Tommy Cooper
With a live brass band, hosts decked out in fishnets and cocktail-topped cabaret tables, you could’ve been forgiven for mistaking Leeds for Las Vegas with Open Theatre’s last show of the semester, Being Tommy Cooper. […]
That’s Showbiz: The Right Here Right Now Show
The stage lights illuminate to a simplistic bohemian style set, hanging plants from the ceiling, Persian rugs on the floor, a vodka bottle hidden to the hosts left. The Right Here, Right Now Show dazzles […]
OT’s Mojo: ‘rip-roaring, searing black comedy’
First premiered in 1995, Jez Butterworth’s ‘Mojo’ is a rip-roaring, searing black comedy that takes us right to the dark underbelly of gang warfare in late 1950s Soho. The stage is masked by a fug […]
Review: OT Presents Equus
“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.” In Peter Shaffer’s Equus, directed by Andrew Brown and Becky Downing, the nature and effects of passion are analysed. Alan Strang (George […]
Review: The Structural Integrity of a Peach – Life, love and angst
Piecing together short snapshots of intertwined lives, The Structural Integrity of a Peach is an ambitious attempt to unravel the anxieties of love life and death. And it is not all together successful. The play […]
Review: Cloud Cuckoo Land – A humorous re-imagining of an ancient satire for the modern world
Tim McConnell’s debut play is not just an adaption that focuses on birds. True, it is based on Aristophanes’ comedy of that name (“The Birds”), but the satire is be to found in the optimistic […]
Preview: Lysistrata – 3rd and 4th November
The university theatre community has returned with a bang for this semester’s season of student productions, and from Tuesday 3rd – Wednesday 4th November, Open Theatre will return with a new adaptation of Lysistrata. Based […]