I have never seen an adaptation of a classic, well loved text before and really felt that the pivotal moments of the story were told better on stage than on the page. So when I read in the West Yorkshire Playhouse programme that...
Read MoreAnya Reiss is doing alright in the North of England. With her adaptation of The Seagull having just closed the Library Theatre’s long, illustrious residency in Manchester, Spring Awakening opens over the other side of the...
Read MoreThere are many journalistic fallbacks, those little turns of phrase employed by writers up against deadline or snowed under with work. These common clichés form a list of staples which, if you read a lot of newspapers and...
Read MoreNot long into the first half of Sweeney Todd, my stomach rumbled and I realised the folly of failing to have any tea before the show. Nearly three hours of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street lay ahead, much of which is set in Mrs...
Read MoreIt’s a crisp, sunny autumnal morning in the canteen of Leeds’ West Yorkshire Playhouse and Alice Nutter is doing her best not to be angry. Yes, she might be the former lead singer of Chumbawamba, the anarcho-punk band whose 1997...
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