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Why, six months ago, did I download a screenwriting program and decide to write a feature film from scratch? With no training in screenwriting, was I mad to dedicate half a year to this attempt? I can only answer by saying, I had an idea for a story that I wanted to tell, I wanted [...]

Writer & Directors: Madani Younis & Omar Elerian Co-Writer: Jonathan Holmes Reviewer: Scott Clarke The Public Reviews Rating: Today when you mention Britain’s great cities several spring to mind, London, Manchester, Glasgow, etc. One that probably won’t be top of the list will be Bradford. Seen as a typical grim Northern city with empty shops, a building site [...]

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Director: Peter Watson Conductor: Andrea Licata Reviewer: Emily Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Trying to read up on the plot before seeing ‘Il Trovatore’ last night proved somewhat confusing. Having not seen the opera before, I always find it beneficial to read up a little beforehand. However the baby-swapping/burning that occurs makes for a [...]

Writer:  Sarah McDonald Hughes from the memoir by Andrea Ashworth Director: Martin Gibbons Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Monkeywood Theatre’s first adaptation is an ambitious and harrowing look at a family torn by internal strife over a period of decades. Caring but inadequate mother Lorraine (Francesca Waite) is attracted to abusive men. The lives of Lorraine and her children [...]

Devised by: Idle Motion Reviewer: Ali Lantukh The Public Reviews Rating: “A map says to you, ‘I’m the world in the palm of your hands’.” Last night I saw six actors transform the few square meters of the Burton Taylor Studio into a kaleidoscope of lights, a captivating dreamscape of stories decades apart intertwined and enmeshed before my [...]

Writer: Roald Dahl Adapter: Jeremy Dysn Director: Polly Findlay Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Following on from their successful partnership on the marmite show Ghost Stories – The Liverpool Playhouse and the Lyric Hammersmith have once again joined forces to produce another production from the mind of Jeremy Dyson – this time Dyson has decided to [...]