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Music & lyrics: Boff Whalley Director: Rod Dixon Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Just ignore the party leaders, With all their dirty fingers in the pie.’ This musical comedy, brought to us by the Red Ladder touring theatre company is on tour from 22nd November to 22nd December 2010. Red Ladder has been producing entertaining and [...]

Book: Charles Dickens Adaptor: Bryony Lavery Music & lyrics: Jason Carr Director: Nikolai Foster Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘…a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner.’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ was first published by Chapman & Hall in December 1843. It was written in early Victorian Britain at a time when past Christmas traditions were [...]

Writer: William Nicholson Director: Sarah Esdaile Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: This new play by acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and Academy award nominated author of Shadowlands William Nicholson has tapped into a rich seam of anger, as many people question how the financial bubble burst. We are taught as children that those who do good work will [...]

Music: Steve Brown Book and Lyrics: Steve Brown & Justin Greene Director: Craig Revel Horwood Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Spend Spend Spend! is the story of the Castleford pair, Viv and Keith Nicholson, who in 1961 scooped the then largest pools win ever, comparable to five million pounds today. The story was first dramatised in [...]

Music: Jonathan Dove Libretto: Alasdair Middleton Director: Martin Duncan Conductor: David Parry Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: This opera, premièred in December 2007, was commissioned by Opera North and Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Carlo Collodi’s traditional story about the wooden puppet boy began life in the 1880s and has been used as inspiration for many works including [...]

Writers: Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall Director: Nick Bagnall Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Billy Liar’ began life as a 1959 novel by Leeds lad Keith Waterhouse. This was later adapted into a play by Waterhouse with Willis Hall, first produced at the Cambridge Theatre in 1960. It has also been made into a film, a [...]

Writer/Director: Pravesh Kumar Music: Sumeet Chopra Lyrics: Dougal Irvine & Bittu Denowalia Reviewer: Laura Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: As soon as I approached the theatre I knew my evening was going to be uplifting, entertaining and leave me whistling catchy tunes due to the music and energy I could hear radiating from the building. West Yorkshire Playhouse [...]

Writer: Hans Christian Andersen Adaptor/Director: Teresa Ludovico Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this exquisite production features one of Italy’s leading theatre companies, Teatro Kismet. Originally created by Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo, it now is touring the UK in association with Warwick Arts Centre. The story is told [...]