Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
What more appropriate place and time could there be to stage Dr Korczak’s Example. This moving and powerful piece is not only the first production to be performed at Bramall Rock Void in Leeds Playhouse but also it is set in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 and timed to coincide with National Holocaust Day. There…
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Night of the Living Dead must be the most over-analysed film in the history of cinema. Basically it is a cheaply made, badly acted picture with hardly any plot and an ending you could see coming a mile off, but please do not let this put you off going to see this production at Leeds…
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It is never too early to plan for the run up to Christmas especially so this year as from 24th November until 5th December the Grand Theatre is staging the hit musical Mamma Mia! The reason I am letting you know this early is that tickets go on general sale this Wednesday, 29th January and…
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Street Scene is described in the Daily Telegraph’s preview as being a musical but Kurt Weill insisted it was an opera. This production at the Leeds Grand Theatre treated it as being the latter. It is my humble opinion that this was a mistake. The work is based on Elmer Rice’s play of the same…
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Now that Christmas and New Year are over and most of us are back at work I am sure that we would love something to look forward to to take our minds off a dull January and give a warm glow. What is this I see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!…
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Having been through the gamut of Christmas events on offer in Leeds it was time to indulge in the New Year Festivities, albeit a couple of days early. I never turn down an invitation to see and hear the wonderful Orchestra of Opera North, if I am totally honest I rarely turn down any invitation,…
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On Sunday I went to the Relaxed Performance of Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman. Normally this would have been my idea of torture but I loved every minute of it. I had kindly been invited by Opera North to see the programme and decided that the 4.30pm conventional performance would be just the…
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T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, nothing was stirring, especially the vodka martinis which were obviously shaken. The name’s Graham – Stan Graham. Do you know what I love most about Christmas – of course you don’t. Well, since you ask, it is the way in which everyone tries to include…
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Well, here we are then. The first full season of events at the extensively refurbished Leeds Playhouse, and what a season it promises to be. There are several co-productions in the Spring/Summer programme to enable the best talent in the country to be utilised. On pole position is Night of the Living Dead – Remix…
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For the past six months my fellow reviewers have been urging me to go to the Rock’n’Roll Pantomime at the City Varieties which they all said was a brilliant annual event. Guess what – it is. When I got there the stage looked magnificent and took me back to when my parents would take me…
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Tyke It To The Limit 