This is a review from March 2013. Refugee Boy is now on a national tour and is about to start a new run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. So I thought it was an ideal time to dust this review off!! As you know, I’ve been very excited about the West Yorkshire Playhouse production of … Continue reading Refugee Boy at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
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Sherlock Secrets – The game is afoot…keep up!
OUTLINE Two years after his public defeat of his arch-nemesis Professor James Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls; Sherlock Holmes is a shadow of his former self. Retreating from the world, Holmes has by now retired from detection and survives only by selling the details of his past cases to an unscrupulous journalist. However, when Mycroft Holmes is … Continue reading Sherlock Secrets – The game is afoot…keep up!
Interview with Mark Catley
Leeds Book Club is thrilled to be joined by Mark Catley - a scriptwriter for TV (such as Casualty, Eastenders and a Call the Midwife episode here and there) and the stage (Angus Thongs and Scuffer). We discuss his upcoming production at the West Yorkshire Playhouse of Sherlock Holmes - Best Kept Secret (squee!); his … Continue reading Interview with Mark Catley
World Book Night Prizes!
Leeds Book Club is thrilled to announce the following prizes for our World Book Night extravaganza! Waterstones have very kindly provided us with vouchers - perfect for book lovers and emerging readers alike. The Leeds branch is choka-full of enthusiastic staff members who will help you find the ideal treat! Say hi @WaterstoneLeeds Our friends at … Continue reading World Book Night Prizes!
The Wind in the Willows Review
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
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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