Every year the West Yorkshire Playhouse puts on a family friendly production over the Christmas season. And each year, the aim seems to be to create such a warm, sumptuous and lavish performance as to terrify the next person to take on the task! Credit to photographer Keith Pattison For Ian Brown - the director … Continue reading The Wind in the Willows Review
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Review
SUMMARY from the WY Playhouse Brick and his wife Maggie are gathered on the family plantation in the Mississippi Delta to celebrate patriarch Big Daddy's sixty-fifth birthday. As the evening unfolds, cracks begin to appear in the wealthy family's Southern gentility as tensions mount, secrets are revealed and unpleasant truths emerge. Brimming with emotional intensity, … Continue reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Review
Coffee and cake with Mary Shelley (An interview with Kristin Atherton)
Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft. Lover of Shelley. Author of Frankenstein... From the WY Playhouse website For a woman who achieved so much during her lifetime; it seems almost sacrilegious that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is usually referred to only as she relates to other people. Her mother; one of the pioneers of the feminist movement. Her father; a distinguished … Continue reading Coffee and cake with Mary Shelley (An interview with Kristin Atherton)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Works by Mary Shelley In honour of the upcoming West Yorkshire Playhouse production on Mary Shelley (more details soon!), I'd like to pass on some invaluable links! While not all of this incomparable author's works are available online (for free!) I've found the following for your reading pleasure! Novels: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern … Continue reading Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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