Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
Since its premier in February 1991, this production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Christopher Gable CBE and choreographed by Massimo Moricone, to the score by Prokofiev, has had more than its fair share of ups and downs, to say the least. On the up side it has become Northern Ballet’s greatest success, being performed…
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Why, I asked myself, would anybody want to organise a bear hunt in Leeds City Centre, where there seems to be a distinct lack of the creatures. It then struck me that this could probably prove how successful the pursuit has proven to be. It was then that the conspiracy theorist in me kicked in,…
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At a running time of an hour and twenty minutes, it has taken me longer to type the heading than to watch the show! I’m not complaining, mind, as this was an action-packed evening celebrating the achievements of some truly remarkable women who changed the world by varying degrees, some are household names, whilst others…
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In the words of that esteemed philosopher and New York Yankees baseball catcher in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Yogi Berra, ‘It’s like déjà vu all over again.’ My last visit to a lunchtime concert at Dewsbury Town Hall was to see ‘Baritone, Soprano and Piano’ during which we were treated to a vocal version…
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I am often astounded by where artists get ideas for their work but this exhibition had even me surprised. The name for the branch in question is Bioart and is a marriage between art and science, with, as its name suggests, a leaning towards biology. As Edward Appleyard, Chief Executive of Thackray Museum of Medicine,…
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As I have said before, dance is a language that has always been a mystery to me. When the beat hits my feet I am always the first on the floor and the last one off it, but that is a more primitive version of physical expression than the amazing performances I witnessed in this…
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imitating the dog have made their name by staging productions which do not conform to the norm, even their name has no upper case letters. I find that last fact extremely irritating but the first one usually compensates by stretching the audience’s intellectual boundaries. This piece was no different in that the telling of the…
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As a Yorkshireman I do like a bargain, and here we have a buy one, get one free from Opera North. Cavalleria rusticana is only a short opera, lasting just over an hour, so it is usually twinned with another concise work, normally Pagliacci, but tonight it was given a change of partner and performed…
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As someone who takes more than a passing interest in interior design, I was looking forward to seeing this exhibition of the books bequeathed to Leeds University by John Bedford, an antiques dealer who made his name in London, where he began his career in the 1960s by opening a stall in a Kensington Antiques…
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I think that I have found my favourite opera so far, and this is it! OK, the work itself is the usual bonkers story which is so daft as to make you wonder what exactly Mozart was on when he wrote it, but the music, staging, singing and acting were so amazing that I could…
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Tyke It To The Limit 