There’s a bumper crop of marvellous festive family shows around this year, and West Yorkshire Playhouse’s version of James And the Giant Peach is right up there with the very best. Thrilling, moving and funny for adults and...
Read MoreIn 1993 at the pliant age of 17, I went to Bury flicks with my cousin Claire to watch Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I’d never read the book nor had a particular penchant for the romantic storytelling which thrusts through this gothic...
Read MoreIt seems appropriate that a play about an unbeatable Yorkshire cyclist was penned by a similarly driven actress from across the Pennines. Bolton’s Maxine Peake has successfully adapted her Radio 4 play focusing on the life of...
Read More‘Dark’, ‘strange’ and ‘disquieting’ are not descriptions you tend to hear in reviews of Alan Bennett plays, whereas alarmingly clichéd phrases like ‘cuddly’ and ‘National...
Read MoreI have never seen an adaptation of a classic, well loved text before and really felt that the pivotal moments of the story were told better on stage than on the page. So when I read in the West Yorkshire Playhouse programme that...
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