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Writer: Don Evans Music: Emma Laxton Director: Dawn Walton Reviewer: Tiffany Shepherd The Public Reviews Rating: ‘I’m just human!’ Cried the Preacher, agonisingly putting down his Bible and reaching for his son’s book, ‘The joys of Sex’ instead. This was the kind of hilarity which dispelled the myth that anyone can really be as respectable as the Harrison [...]

Director & Conductor: Dora Hristova Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: Leeds International Concert Season brought to us a spectacular performance from the Bulgarian female vocal choir, ‘Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares’ (The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices). Originally known as the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir, the group was formed in Bulgaria in 1952 [...]

Music: Sumeet Chopra Lyrics: Dougal Irvine Writer & Director: Pravesh Kumar Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Aj Bhangra Paun Noo’n Jee Kardaa’ - ’Today I feel like doing Bhangra dance’ (Malkit Singh, 2001) ‘Britain’s got Bhangra’ was brought to the Yorkshire stage by Rifco Arts, a British Asian Theatre Company that aims to embrace the multicultural world in [...]

Writer: Gary Edwards Adator: Les Rowley Directors: Rayner Bourton& Alun Lewis Reviewer: S.E. Webster The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Paint it White’, based on Gary Edward’s biography of the same name about his years as an avid Leeds United football fan, was naturally going to meet with a warm reception at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, in Leeds. As theatre-goers [...]

With Halloween just around the corner, it’s time to carve your pumpkins, practise your spookiest ghost stories and buy fake blood by the bucket-load in preparation for the scariest night of the year. Head to the theatre for some more chills and thrills with this week’s top tips – though you might want to take [...]

Music: Tchaikovsky Novel: Alexander Pushkin Libretto: Tchaikovsky & Modest Tchaikovsky Director: Neil Bartlett Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Life treats us with shadows, like a puppet master. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us, with bitterness and disappointment in its train.’ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ‘The Queen of Spades’, op.68 is in three [...]

Music: Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky Conductor: Sir Mark Elder CBE Soloists: Nelson Goerner – Piano, Katherine Baker – Flute. Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: The Halle was founded by Pianist and Conductor Charles Halle in 1858, making it the fourth oldest Orchestra in the world. The orchestra are currently resident at the impressive Bridgewater Hall, [...]

Music: Stanford, Haydn & Schubert Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Chamber music – a conversation between friends.’ Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) Leeds International Chamber Season was premiered by spectacular performances from Opera North Ensemble. With a carefully designed programme that utilised all the instruments and genres of music in the intimate setting of The Venue at Leeds [...]