“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” So says Malcolm of the Thane of Cawdor in Macbeth. If only the same could be said of Great Britain abandoning its Empire. Somalia, Palestine, Sri Lanka, Burma,...
Read MoreTransform started life back in 2011 with a bold objective: to re-imagine what theatre can look like, what it can do and to ‘reflect the socially conscious and radical North’. Initially set up by the West Yorkshire...
Read MoreThere was a celebratory feel about the opening night of Triple Bill 2016 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. At 35-years-old, Phoenix Dance Theatre is the longest standing contemporary dance company outside of London, and...
Read MoreI’ve loved Baz Luhrmann for a very long time. He makes the magical possible because he made Moulin Rouge. That’s how to spend a budget and give the cinema-goer value for money. Now West Yorkshire Playhouse is staging the musical...
Read MoreCyrano de Bergerac had a very big nose. So big in fact that Edmund Rostand immortalised it in his 1897 comic masterpiece, written almost 250 years after his eponymous hero’s death. Apart from the nose, and Cyrano’s position...
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