Review: Guy Fawkes at York Theatre Royal
The title tells us all this is a comedy. Sometimes riotously funny and always fast-moving. I think there is another play in there trying to get out.
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Review: Frantic Assembly’s Othello at York Theatre Royal
You know to expect something innovative and amazing when at a Frantic Assembly production and their version of Othello is no exception. We entered the auditorium to loud drum and bass music and were thereby prepared for a street version of a play written 400 years ago.
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Review: A Room Of One’s Own at York Theatre Royal
I wasn’t sure quite what this performance would be. Based on two lectures given by Virginia Woolf in 1928, I knew that I would learn about the struggle of women writers to be published and accepted in Literature’s history. What I wasn’t expecting was the range of material and examples that Rebecca Vaughan referenced.
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Review: Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d at York Theatre Royal
I’m sorry I can’t help it, I love a murder mystery! The setting of the scene in an English country village, the introduction of stereo-typic characters, the following of clues and red herrings to an unmasking finale, all fills me with a reassuring warm glow.
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Review: Girl From The North Country at York Theatre Royal
How do you review an experience? Girl from the North Country written and directed by Conor McPherson, using the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan is just that.
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Review: The Ronnie Scott Story at York Theatre Royal
I was lucky enough to see Ella Fitzgerald live at Ronnie Scott’s Club in the 1970s; an event which has always stayed with me. Tonight was an opportunity to relive that time and I wasn’t disappointed.
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Review: The Coppergate Woman at York Theatre Royal
After an uncertain and rather slow start The Coppergate Woman gathered momentum and burst into life, using stunning effects: lighting, sound and AV which matched anything I have seen on stage, outside the West End.
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Review: The Play What I Wrote at York Theatre Royal
On tour at York Theatre Royal this week is a West End success: The play what I wrote. Naturally, we know this must be about Morecambe and Wise, mustn’t we?
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Review: Yorkshire Kernel at Theatre 41
This is a story of a journey across England to locate the trees planted after the war, by protagonist James’ grandad, in memory of his WW2 comrades. James’ mission is to bring back an acorn. His grandad is dying and he wants James to plant an acorn in Yorkshire, at a site where his ashes will be scattered.
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