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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: Rachael Martin The Public Reviews Rating: Upon hearing the words ‘Calendar Girls’, most people will think about the 2003 film release starring Julie Walters and the now Dame Helen Mirren. However a current theatrical production of the Calendar Girls story, directed by Roger Haines, has taken London’s West End by storm, [...]

Writer: Tim Firth Director: Roger Haines Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: When the WI ladies of Cracoe, North Yorkshire, tastefully bore all for an alternative calendar they couldn’t have imagined what an international phenomenon their story would become. They had no idea they’d raise £3m, firstly for their local hospital and then for Leukaemia and Lymphoma [...]

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 [...]