Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Here I am, back at Leeds Grand Theatre for a second tv show transfer to the stage. Unlike Drop The Dead Donkey, this is not a case of getting the band back together, rather a play based on the original idea of a group of supermarket workmates winning the lottery. Having said that, it is…
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Slung Low Warehouse is a comparatively new performance space in Holbeck, having moved from Holbeck Working Men’s Club, where they used to put on shows on a Pay What You Decide basis. This philosophy is continued here and at their other new space, Slung Low at Temple. It is very basic being – surprise, surprise…
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For some reason I never quite got into the television series of Drop The Dead Donkey. It ran from 1990 to 1998 which meant that I was in my forties and possibly a bit above the age for the target audience. I did catch a couple of episodes but they didn’t register. When I knew…
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When I saw this play billed as being aimed at ‘Anyone who’s put on or lost weight.’ I thought that it would be rude not to go and see it. It is written and performed by Rachel Sockdale who hails from Middlesbrough and has gone from size 8 to 18 in the past few years.…
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I was going to begin this article by concocting something about me being in a future time-frame, but I changed my mind as I have just read all the other reviews which were published next month, and they all did that. When I received the stock images of the production, I must admit to being…
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If things are getting a bit hectic and fraught over the Easter holidays, why not treat yourself to some space. You can even include the family and friends as well, as the Leodis Space Agency has taken over the city centre until 14th April. Everything is free but, as some features are only on at…
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Now here’a a first. After musicals based on films and tv shows, here is one based on a radio programme. It was a documentary by Charles Chilton which used people’s memories of the First World War, interspersed with facts, statistics and songs of the period. A lot of the numbers were either hymns or show…
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This is the second show I have seen performed by deaf artists to mark BSL (British Sign Language) Week. By sheer coincidence I had been for a hearing test that morning when I was told that I would now need to wear hearing aids, as that particular sense had deteriorated markedly since my last check-up.…
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During the Noughties I lived in Sowerby Bridge and on the last Friday of the month would get the bus to a pub called Stubbing Wharf at Hebden Bridge with my boozing buddy for their Story Night. It was held in an upstairs room where a professional storyteller did their thing and, after a break…
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When anyone mentions the name, The Drifters, two people spring to mind, no, not Johnny Moore, the longest serving member, or even Ben E. King, the most famous one, but Cliff Richard and Trigger from Only Fools and Horses. The reason is that the Shadows, the Peter Pan of Pop’s backing group, were originally called…
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Tyke It To The Limit 