Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Somebody, somewhere, must be taking notice of the stuff I write because, after complaining about the inability to catch the names of a lot of the pieces played in concerts due to their being in a foreign language or the lack of a programme/set list – neither being the fault of Howard Assembly Room –…
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I admit to having approached this evening with more than a little apprehension. I have seen productions by Phoenix Dance Theatre in the past, but they were either short works or composites. Inside Giovanni’s Room, however, was a full length adaptation of the 1956 cult classic novel, Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin, so, the question…
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Now here’s a trip down Memory Lane. I was taken by my mum and dad to see the film when it first came out and all I can remember was being bored! I have just looked it up and the release date is 1954, but it would have been a bit later than that by…
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After my overdose of The Magic Flute, it is folk music which seems to have filled the void. I pointed out that the artists on last week’s gig were individual performers, being support and main act, here we had two artists who were a duo, but also appeared singly as their own warm-up. Kerching! Aidan…
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Just to get things straight from the start, these are two separate acts rather than one ensemble. They are, however, both folk artists and their music of Celtic influence. Hannah Rarity is a Glaswegean who has had the good taste to make her first visit to Leeds, and I certainly hope it will not be…
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I wish that the internet, Google and AI had been around in the Sixties. If you wanted to appear as someone with wide-ranging intellectual prowess, you really needed to have seen the film, artwork or play before you could discuss it. I have just made myself familiar with the drama, Miss Julie by Johan August…
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As you may have gathered from the title, this show is based on the brilliant comedy series of the same name. It does, however, merit a Trigger Warning. If you get that, you will love the evening, if you don’t, you will still enjoy it, but there are an awful lot of ‘in’ jokes, both…
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For once I went to a concert at the spectacular Howard Assembly Room knowing what I was going to get, rather than opening myself up to a form of music with which I was not familiar. I have always enjoyed the music of Django Reinhardt and his long-time musical partner, Stéphane Grappelli, co-founders of the…
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Well, that’s that then. I have completed the Grand Slam of The Magic Flute. I have seen the September 2024 production, the February 2025 one, which was the same but with a few cast changes, the free, 40-minute pop-up version performed in Holbeck Working Men’s Club in June, 2021, The 30-minute rendering in County Arcade,…
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I must admit to being at a disadvantage here, as I have never seen Shakespeare’s original version of this play, although, as I have often said, it is difficult to see the original version of any of his works. When I was at school doing my GCE ‘O’ Level English Literature we studied Hamlet, well,…
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Tyke It To The Limit 