“Just wait and I’ll get the others, they’re all here,” says Lily Clark, forward for the Batley Bulldogs Girls Rugby League team as I chat to her outside the Lawrence Batley Theatre before the premiere of The Ruck. As Clark...
Read MoreDirector Joyce Branagh is working on what sounds like the perfect premise for an ensemble piece. Due to open at Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre this month, The Ruck is a fictional tale inspired by The...
Read MoreI thought of a new word yesterday while watching the The Shawshank Redemption at The Lowry: solvation. It’s something you seek but never find. It’s the imagined end to all the past injustices that plague your mind. It came to me...
Read MoreJackie The Musical re-opens old wounds and places a plaster on your broken heart. What becomes of the broken-hearted? They wallow. And wallowing is a great dramatic tool, used here in the nostalgia of old Jackie magazines (a...
Read MoreI’ve loved Baz Luhrmann for a very long time. He makes the magical possible because he made Moulin Rouge. That’s how to spend a budget and give the cinema-goer value for money. Now West Yorkshire Playhouse is staging the musical...
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