Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
The Constant Wife is the name of a play, or, to be more accurate, it is the name of two plays. The first is the one the audience bought tickets for at the Grand Theatre and the second is the fictional drama which was the intended destination for a night out, enabling Constance Middleton (Kara…
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Now that all the children’s television programmes are shown on dedicated channels I don’t stumble across them any more, so no getting sidetracked by Horrible Histories, which is one of the best, funniest and most informative things available for any age group. I mention that because Planet Omar, although aimed at the age range 7+,…
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Top of the Wold kicks off the 55th season of productions from Mikron, who will be touring the country from their base on a narrowboat called Tyseley. It chugs along waterways stopping at various locations allowing them to set up stage and perform one of the two musical plays written especially for the year. 2026…
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In a previous review I said that the most effective way of making sense of statistics and generalities is to humanise them by concentrating on a single example. This play takes that premise and extends it, not only to include the way in which we look at a perpetrator, but the way in which they,…
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So far it looks as though 2026 will go down as the Year of the Dance. I can’t remember seeing so many productions of the genre in such a short period of time, and more are just around the corner. It’s lucky that I have come to enjoy this medium, if not downright love it.…
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If you are a bit short of wedge this summer, why not visit Leeds City Centre where you will be able to collect loads of them. Anyone in town in 2024 would have thought that Waddington’s had the MONOPOLY of board games but they would have reckoned without Hasbro, the makers of TRIVIAL PURSUIT, who…
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This play os a musical based on the real story of Walter Tull, a man whose life was full of incident and tragedy. It was written by Dougie Blaxland, composed by Chris Anthony and directed by Amanda Horlock in conjunction with Show Racism The Red Card. Although a low-key, three-hander with minimal set and props,…
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What an amazing night. This is what a showbiz bio-musical should be. The ups and downs of a star’s career, done with respect, honesty, humour and plenty of banging tunes. Producers of Sunny Afternoon take note! If you were going to write a fictional account of a soul singer turned rock superstar, this would be…
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When trying to tell a story based on a complex set of circumstances, there is no better way than to extract the essence by personalising it. To say that there were 1,027 passengers on HMT Empire Windrush, with over 800 from the Caribbean, on its first sailing from Jamaica to to UK in June 1948,…
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Yet another first for me, not just in the play itself, but also the venue, which I had never even heard of before the visit, let alone been to. It is in the Leeds City College School of Creative Arts, Quarry Hill Campus next door to Leeds Playhouse and is a very intimate room which…
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Tyke It To The Limit 