Bethany Taylor talks about starting a theatre company at the age of 18. Called Cognito Theatre, the company was created with the intention of using performance to tackle and discuss current issues. Their first project […]
Interview | Ekow Quartey – Spring Awakening Star
An exciting and contemporary version of Wedekind’s Spring Awakening is bursting onto stage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse next month. Provocative and unnerving, the play depicts the confusion and intensity of teenage life today. The […]
News | PhD student lands £30k prize
A talented Leeds student has landed a £30,000 fund for his theatre project. David Shearing, a 30 year old PhD student, was among five artists last month who won the Sky Academy Arts prize. Through […]
Film | August: Osage County – Simply works better as a play
Image: Jean Doumanian Productions It’s that time of year again when Harvey Weinstein trots out his chosen few films and frequently leads them to Oscar glory. August: Osage County is his offering this year, where […]
Student Theatre | Stage Musicals Society's Beauty and the Beast is fresh and fun
SMS have delivered another beautifully crafted production with Beauty and the Beast. Popularised by Disney in the early 1990s, it is difficult for a new production to compete with the well-known film our generation has […]
Theatre Group | A Chorus of Disapproval – Flashes of brilliance
image: Theatre Group 3/5 Stars In Alan Ayckbourn’s quirky comedy A Chorus of Disapproval, young widower Guy Jones finds himself thrown into the clash of dramatic arts and sexual politics as he joins a local […]
Theatre | Punk Rock – A Damning Portrait of Ourselves
When someone inevitably tells you that Punk Rock, by British playwright Simon Stephens, is ‘like The History Boys’, don’t listen to them. If you go into Punk Rock expecting it to be like The History […]
Theatre | Architects of the Invisible
4/5 stars stage@leeds April 24-27 Like every other play produced by the PCI this year, ‘Architects of the Invisible’ lacked a clear story. However, if you dissect all of the small extracts from the […]
Theatre | Our Class
4/5 stars stage@leeds Leeds Theatre Group Society April 20 Director Jocelyn Cheek has taken a risk with her first production, choosing not only a foreign play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, but also one about the […]
Theatre | Pornography
3/5 Stars LUU Theatre Group takes another big dive into the deep end with their most recent production. Pornography is the work of winning English Playwright Simon Stephens, who like Sarah Kane, is part of […]
Theatre | Rabbitskin
A slice of new theatre comes to Seven Arts. 4/5 Stars Dominic Grace’s new play Rabbitskin claims it asks its audiences to “consider how easy it is for us to listen to other people’s stories, […]
Theatre | Woyzeck
3/5 stars stage@leeds February 21 Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck follows one man’s descent into the rabbit hole of insanity and remains titanic on the landscape of modern drama through the universality of its central themes. […]