Phillip Breen’s adaptation honours D. H. Lawrence’s overriding reach for tenderness in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, the love story that scandalised the western world after thirty-two years of whispering under the sheets of Italian, French and Australian publishers. Continue reading
Love of family, partners and theatre itself are beautifully conveyed and deconstructed in Wildgoose Theatre’s adaptation of Gates of Gold. Continue reading
York Theatre Royal Youth Theatre’s performance of The Witches was a nostalgic mix of comedy, horror and pantomime tropes. Continue reading
Damian Cruden’s Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles is an original family-oriented devised musical dressed handsomely in an appropriated Victorian circus-theatre aesthetic. Continue reading
Pilot Theatre delve into a world where humans live underground in their adaptation of E.M. Forster’s post-apocalyptic tale of human dependency upon technology, The Machine Stops. Continue reading
A gender-fluid take on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream comes to Friargate Theatre. Continue reading
Bryony Lavery proves to be a master of matters of the heart with her tender adaptation of Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh’s examination of young love, family and faith. Continue reading
Humour collides with medieval mise-en-scene in Tales of Bacon, a delightful new web series. Continue reading
York Shakespeare Project go from strength to strength in celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with their 29th play, this truly heart-warming rendition of one of the bard’s lesser (co-written) plays. Continue reading
Marina Carr explores the hope and disappointment of romance, the comfort and frustrations of sisterhood and the question of women’s freedom of identity within their relationships. Continue reading