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Writer: Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Carol Evans The Public Reviews Rating: The true story of the women from a Yorkshire WI who posed to make a nude calendar to raise money for a cancer charity has become stuff of legend. It now looks as if Tim Firth’s play Calendar Girls, based on their tale, is fast [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Vicki Goodwin The Public Reviews Rating: The women behind the story of Calendar Girls could scarcely have imagined the far reaching impact that their journey would have on the world beyond them. Their heart-warming tale of courage in the face of loss has become an inspiration that has touched the lives [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: ‘And did those feet in ancient time. Walk upon England’s mountains green’. Well on the green hills of Yorkshire it’s not feet that concern a group of courageous women but more revealing parts of the anatomy. Baring (nearly) all for a calendar isn’t the normal [...]

Director: Jack Ryder Production Designer: Robert Jones Reviewer: Sue Dixon The Public Reviews Rating: Calendar Girls was first seen as a smash hit film back in 2003, now adapted for the stage by Tim Firth, who wrote the original screenplay. It is unlikely that anyone could forget that both film and play are based on the true and [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Lauren Rare The Public Reviews Rating: The curtain rose to the familiar strains of Jerusalem, a recurring musical motif, being sung as the six core members of the Women’s Institute walked on and the play began. They had interestingly chosen to forgo the use of microphones due to the intimate [...]

Writer: Louise Roche Director: Jack Randle Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: Imagine the scenario: you’re young, at school, and enjoying the best days of your life, and sharing all those important ‘firsts’ with the four best friends you could ever hope to have. Then, at sixteen, you fall pregnant and become a single mother to Candi-Rose [...]

The ‘Calendar Girls’ set a record-breaking date in the Civic Theatre’s History. A star-studded cast has set a box office record at one of the region’s major theatres. Calendar Girls, which has been playing all week and continues until tomorrow has entertained capacity crowds at Darlington’s Civic Theatre and has been the most successful drama in the [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Ian Cain The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Calendar Girls’ has been the fastest-selling tour ever and it has arrived in Darlington with an impressive cast of well-known names and not a spare seat to be had in the house all week! Lesley Joseph (‘Birds of a Feather) heads the cast, as Chris [...]