4/5 Stars This classic production sees a fresh and lively rework under the direction of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Ian Brown, following the adventures of four distinctive animal characters in an adventure perfect for the festive […]
Theatre | Wind in the Willows
Alan Bennett’s adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows has become as well established as the original novel. I got the chance to speak with Jack Lord, who plays Ratty in this season’s production […]
Theatre | Our Country's Good
5/5 Stars In the post-show discussion of Our Country’s Good, director Max Stafford-Clark says that he has returned to Timberlake Wertenbaker’s stunning play out of ‘pure indulgence’ – and it is easy to see […]
Dance | Beautiful Burnout
5/5 Stars Having seen Beautiful Burnout in 2010 when the production won the Edinburgh Fringe First Award, it was difficult to see how this performance two years on could live up to the memory […]
Theatre | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Review
4/5 stars In this adaptation of ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ everything does what it says on the tin. Heroine Maggie ‘the Cat’ (Zoe Boyle) slinks, purrs and pounces in her attempts to seduce […]
Theatre | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tweet Night
4/5 Stars As part of the Guardian’s open-journalism project, I took part in a Tweet Night for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This experiment attempted to encourage people to re-think how we create theatre […]
Theatre | Steptoe and Son
A theatrical re-make of the famous British Sitcom comes to the West Yorkshire Playhouse, provoking mixed reviews from our writers. 3/5 Stars Kneehigh Production Company have received five star reviews from The Times, and, reaching […]