Image: Opera North La Bohème Opera North 29th April – 17th May Leeds Grand Theatre Puccini’s La Bohème is perhaps one of the best known opera: an heartbreaking tale of young love and loss set […]
Opera|Girl of the Golden West – The very first spaghetti western
Image: Opera North Critic Sir Christopher Frayling said that ‘…it was Giacomo Puccini who wrote the first Spaghetti Western worthy of the name…’ and it’s a proper old fashioned western of saloon brawls, poker games […]
LIFF | Stranger by the Lake – An erotic thriller that's neither erotic nor thrilling
video: Les Films du Worso Stranger by the Lake has been leaving its mark on the festival circuit. Half thriller, half gay love story, it won the Cannes Best Director Award for Alain Guiraudi and […]
Leeds International Film Festival | Highlights Roundup
photo: Cold Eyes, Zip Cinema Cold Eyes (2013) An adaptation of Nai-Hoi Yau’s Hong Kong crime thriller Eye in the Sky, South Korean directors Ui-seok Jo and Byung-seo Kim portray the chaos and collusions of […]
Theatre Group | Vinegar Tom – Caryl Churchill's '70's play about 17th century witch hunts is still relevant
photo: Jess Macdonald It is symptomatic of the world we live in that a 1970s radical feminist play, set during the craze of witch trials in 17th century England, can be made to feel so […]
Art | Scenery at & Model Gallery – minimalism gone too far
photo: John Skoog 2/5 Stars & Model is quite the trendy contemporary art gallery, you can deduce it from their opening times alone (Wednesday-Saturday, 2-5pm, or by appointment). Spread over three floors this month is […]
The Scribe | Basement Sessions an Underground Hit
Down a dark street in Hyde Park, through a door lit with fairy lights, across a quaint tiled kitchen and down into a room of red walls. Welcome to Sheif’s House. This is the private venue in Hyde Park […]