REVIEW: Hamlet, Leeds Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Jonathan Hall reviews Amy Letman’s production Wiliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Leeds Playhouse.
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REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Leeds Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Jonathan Hall reviews Deborah MacAndrew’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
At the interval and the end- especially at the end- the audience, which included a large element of young people, erupted with a spontaneous cheering, whooping enthusiasm- it was the perfect response to this enjoyable production.
REVIEW: Made In Dagenham, New Wolsey Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Director Douglas Rintoul places it in the hands of an exceptional ensemble of actor-musicians, and the result is a joyful and powerful evening celebrating equal rights. Based on the film of the same name, the musical charts the determination, humour, defiance and skills of the women at the Ford Dagenham car plant who strike for equal pay in 1968.
REVIEW: Flare Path, Richmond Theatre (UK Tour) ✭✭✭
Flare Path centres on the fears and frustrations that derive from an interminable war, seen through the eyes of three married couples. Although its central love triangle can be more distracting than compelling, overall this is a fine production with a host of excellent performances and an admirably tense atmosphere.
Flare Path UK Tour Tickets
Based on Rattigan’s experiences as a tail gunner during World War II, Flare Path paints an evocative portrait of life in wartime Britain for the life-and-death existence of the RAF bomber crews, and their wives and sweethearts who were left waiting their return. Set in 1942 against a backdrop of heartache and quiet bravery, Flare Path tells the story of former actress Patricia, the wife of RAF pilot Teddy, whose marriage is tested to the limits by the surprise arrival of Patricia’s ex‐lover and Hollywood idol Peter Kyle. An unexpected and dangerous mission over Germany puts Patricia at the centre of an emotional conflict as unpredictable as the war in the skies. Flare Path combines highly charged drama with a truly authentic taste of the fear, camaraderie and passion experienced by the men and women who fought to save their country, their families and each other. The cast of Flare … Read more
