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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The hardest part of writing reviews as far as I am concerned, is staring at a blank screen and wondering how I can find a theme to make what I am about to key onto it interesting. One day I might actually get it right. From the moment, some time last year, I saw that…
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You wait years for stage productions to begin with a period of silence and then we get two in a week! Although adhering to the Mafia code of omertà, and the indication that what followed was going to be out of the ordinary, the opening scenes of Peter Grimes and A Midsummer Night’s Dream could…
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In 1975, Fawlty Towers was required television for those of us in our mid-twenties, as it provided what would now be called water cooler conversations at the office, the day after broadcast. There were only three channels so the odds were that the vast majority of colleagues would have seen it. Although not a great…
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I saw this play when it last came to Leeds and so enjoyed it that I thought I would see if it had changed over the past three years and, if so, how. It was obvious that the cast had changed, but what about the show? Having just read my original article I realised that…
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This is the day that Christmas truly arrives for me and quite a few other reviewers, as it is our version of the office party; an event when we can get together and, for those so blessed, let our hair down. It is a pantomime like no other, as it is aimed at the more…
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It is years since I spent a Saturday afternoon in a library, in fact I was probably still at primary school having just enjoyed a swim in York Road Baths before nipping next door to take out a couple of books to see me through until the following week. Ah, the memories. Today I was…
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Here we go with pantomime number two of the season, and this one is in Harrogate which means that like all good children, I should be home for bedtime. Are you listening, Santa! Like most pantos it is based on a fairy tale, a term coined in France by Madame d’Aulnoy in the late 17th…
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Tyke It To The Limit 