Image: Kate Tempest Kate Tempest’s spoken word epic takes its audience on an intense journey, exploring the influence that love, hatred and regret play in creating modern day heroes, villains and victims. Intricately designed lighting […]
Theatre | Refugee Boy – a seamless production
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse At the level of individuals, politics can be a prison. It binds ethnicities to boundaries, families to states and its victims are those who remain caught between its narrowly and neatly […]
Theatre | Paper Birds – Leeds graduates explore what it means to be a woman
photo: Paper Birds Leeds University graduates, The Paper Birds, celebrate their tenth anniversary as a theatre company by exploring the passage of time in the lives of different women, in their production of On the […]
Theatre | 1984 – Great production, but only for book readers
photo: West Yorkshire Playhouse Big Brother. Room 101. The images and concepts established by George Orwell in his dystopian novel, 1984, have entered popular culture and become so incorporated into our everyday lives that it’s […]
Theatre | Footloose – Let's Hear it for the Boy
photo: LAOS 4/5 Stars The first thing that strikes you about this show is its sheer relentless energy. The cast are dancing almost constantly from start to finish and the most energetic actor of all […]
Arts | The Lookout Post – Upcoming Cultural Highlights
The Secret Agent @ West Yorkshire Playhouse, September 24–28. From £12. After a hiatus of five years, Theatre O return to the stage in partnership with the Young Vic. Together they adapt Joseph Conrad’s timeless […]
Preview | WYP – A Play, a Pie & a Pint
Taking after Glasgow’s string of short plays at the Oran Mor theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse are launching a tasty new treat this term. Not only will a £10 ticket whet your appetite with a selection […]
Theatre | Refugee Boy
5/5 Stars Unsurprisingly the cast of Refugee Boy took their bows this Wednesday to thunderous applause. With their raw, forceful, yet incredibly human performances, Alem (Fisayo Akinade) and his supporting actors completely blew us away. […]
Theatre | Dr Faustus
Alice Rafter gives us her views on this innovative remaking of Marlowe’s 400 year old play. 3/5 Stars West Yorkshire Playhouse’s new production of Dr Faustus gives a classic play a clever modern twist, with […]
The Zero Hour
3/5 Stars UK Theatre Company Imitating the Dog explore a fusion of live action, recorded footage and animation in their perplexing piece The Zero Hour. Blending cinematic qualities with live theatre, The Zero Hour explores the different accounts of three […]
Interview: Colin Teevan
With rehearsals at the West Yorkshire Playhouse underway, Alice Rafter caught up with Colin Teevan, scriptwriter for Dr. Faustus, and got an exclusive insight into some of the ideas behind the production. When it comes […]
Dance | Particle Velocity
4/5 Stars Phoenix Dance Theatre are a company born and raised in Leeds. They returned to the West Yorkshire Playhouse this month to showcase their latest enterprise in contemporary dance, before taking the performance to […]