Tuesday, December 7, 2010
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAudiences are not exactly left wanting for Dickensian entertainments at this time of year, and though most are appropriately festive, one begins to sympathise …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMThursday, December 2, 2010
Britain's cottonmill workers used to dance it. Then it became a mark of shame. Now clog dancing has returned to where it belongs – the streetsThe streets of Newcastle have begun to echo wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMRoyal Court, LiverpoolFred Lawless has a knack for spinning Merseyside variants of old sitcom formats. Last year's Merry Ding Dong was a fractious update of Love Thy Neighbour, in which an E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMFriday, November 26, 2010
Octagon, BoltonDickens singled out David Copperfield as his "favourite child". It's no coincidence that the book was also Freud's favourite work of fiction – Dickens's autobiographical cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMWednesday, November 24, 2010
Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughAt a time of year when theatres pull out the stops to woo family audiences with the quality of special effects, it is much to the Stephen Joseph theatre's credit t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMFriday, November 19, 2010
Theatre Royal, YorkOne can only hope that higher education has moved on from the bearpit of academic arrogance and militant resistance that David Mamet's 1992 play describes. The story of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMMonday, November 15, 2010
Theatre Royal, YorkSammy's family find it hard to settle in one place. First they live in a blue house, but it makes everyone depressed. Then they try living on a bus, but it costs a fortune…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMFriday, November 12, 2010
Curve, LeicesterIt is sometimes hard to believe that there's only one Brian Friel. On the one hand there is the expansive bard of Ballybeg, the Emerald Chekhov. On the other is the austere m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMThursday, November 11, 2010
Unity, LiverpoolAndy Warhol once declared that he "never wanted to be an artist – I wanted to be a tap dancer". This seems about as likely as Fred Astaire expressing a secret desire to sur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMFriday, May 17, 2002
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