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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: Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth Director: Jack Ryder Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: Where better to see the stage version of the story of an incredible group of WI members than in Bradford, the nearest city to the beautiful Yorkshire village where this story is set. The extraordinary story Calendar Girls is one that most [...]

Writer: Tim Firth & Juliette Towhidi Director : Jack Ryder Reviewer: Iris Beaumont The Public Reviews Rating: The film ‘Calendar Girls’ hit the big screen in 2003, directed by Nigel Cole, it was based on a true story about a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Roger Haines Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: Most people will have heard of how in 1999 Rhylstone and District WI produced a ‘nude, not naked’ alternative Women’s Institute calendar to raise funds for a simple plaque and settee memorial that they wanted to place in the hospital that had treated one of [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Roger Haines Reviewer: Ali Lantukh The Public Reviews Rating: For the uninitiated, Calendar Girls is the story of a group of women from a Yorkshire Women’s Institute, who, following the illness and death of the husband of one of their number from leukemia, decide to raise money to commemorate him by posing nude (not [...]