8 stories by "Steve Clarkson"
Wife. Mother. Yorkshirewoman. Cyclist. Legend. Beryl Burton was perhaps the greatest sportswoman this country has ever produced, and we ought to be ashamed of the fact that many of us will h…
Some people say that, in the age of theatrical consultants, narrative deconstruction, and the so-called "multimedia performance", conventional theatre no longer cuts the mustard. But there a…
A spiralling stage, horned with two raised prongs. A circular display, mounted on the back wall, which presents the buildings and coastline of a seaside town from a bird's eye view. Subtle b…
It takes a particularly hard heart to fail to be moved by the sheer scale of community fragmentation around the time of the Miners' Strike " for many, the single most devastating period in t…
The best bit is the Wagon Wheels. Frisbeed, they are, towards the audience's outstretched arms and expectant faces, with the precision of a man who's been doing it for the past 35 years, wit…
Never before has "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" been a more fitting opening gambit. This sprawling wartime spectacle knew few bounds as it marched across…
It's not easy bringing the Mississippi delta to Leeds city centre " yet here its hanging moss and tea-coloured waters fill out every inch of the expansive Quarry stage. Indeed, all that's mi…
Is it the greatest story ever told, or the most indulgent nativity ever staged? The return of the York Mystery Plays " this summer's blue-ribbon theatrical spectacular in the North " begins …
