
Review: HandleBards MacBeth at York Theatre Royal
Handlebards are back. After their hilarious version of Romeo and Juliet the company returns with an all female Macbeth.
Continue reading “Review: HandleBards MacBeth at York Theatre Royal”Handlebards are back. After their hilarious version of Romeo and Juliet the company returns with an all female Macbeth.
Continue reading “Review: HandleBards MacBeth at York Theatre Royal”What joy, traditional pantomime is back at York at the Theatre Royal!
Continue reading “Review: Cinderella at York Theatre Royal”The Phoenix Dance company are internationally renowned and are presenting a programme to celebrate their fortieth birthday. The evening features work by award winning choreographers who can showcase talent and brilliance in a programme of differing and memorable pieces.
Continue reading “Review: Forty Years of Phoenix at York Theatre Royal”What an illustrious history! From novel to film, The 39 Steps has finally become a very entertaining farce. It is a simple tale of the hero’s unwilling involvement in an International spy ring, subsequent mistaken identity and a chase which takes him from London to Scotland. Now this story has become a fast paced slapstick romp.
Continue reading “Review: The 39 Steps at Theatre@41”What did I expect to see at the new Emma Rice production? Humour? Theatricality? Exhilarating style? I got all of those with a large helping of darkness and death. But it was a sense of The Wuthering Heights Experience that I took away with me.
Continue reading “Review: Wuthering Heights at York Theatre Royal”Hailed as a ‘new and unique piece of modern Folk Theatre’ The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff celebrates working-class activism. It is a true story of the struggle against poverty and unemployment beginning in Stockton on Tees but reflects the history of all the country and the suffering felt by those involved in the depression. The tale tells of Hunger marches, the mass Trespass Movement and the battle of Cable Street against Mosley and the British fascists. Johnny Longstaff is the working-class hero of the times and through his personal experiences, gives a terrific insight into the reality of Britain before the Second World War.
Continue reading “Review: The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff at York Theatre Royal”York Theatre Royal’s Haunted Season progresses towards Halloween with a truly Gothic version of this American masterpiece.
Continue reading “Review: Sleepy Hollow at York Theatre Royal”It is a real treat to see Matthew Bourne’s latest production of contemporary dance and I anticipated it with excitement. Described as ‘intoxicated tales from darkest Soho’ and inspired by the novels of Patrick Hamilton it is a multi-layered glimpse of London’s underworld of the 1930s, set in a public house named The Midnight Bell.
Continue reading “Review: The Midnight Bell at York Theatre Royal”I had no preconceptions of this play which is premiering at York theatre Royal from 9 to 18 September. Maybe it would be a resume of what happened in Zimbabwe from 1980, until Mugabe’s fall from power in 2017? In fact, it turned out to be a young man’s search for identity which began in a London bar when he was asked: ‘Where do you come from?’
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