Friday, December 19, 2014
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: Here's a toast for the downtrodden and all who have ever felt marginalised. Mike Kenny's adaptation of Cinderella is a plea from below the stairs - under …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
York Theatre Royal, York: In the war against panto cliche, Berwick Kaler makes for an impressive, if unlikely, general. With his wandering fake bust - alarmingly unmoored during one "wa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Hull New Theatre, Hull: There's a lack of sparkle about this year's Hull New Theatre panto, despite the bling of the props.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMThursday, November 27, 2014
The streets of York and 17 Colliergate, York: There can't be many places better suited to a Dickensian tale than York, and so it proves with Nightshade Productions' take on A Chris…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Hull Truck Theatre: There is something charmingly quirky, and particularly British, which persists throughout Idle Motion's drama, which roams back and forth across five decades: it is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMThursday, August 14, 2014
The Guildhall, York: After successive reinventions as a muscular, action-hero type (Guy Ritchie's two films) and as a present day otherworldly genius (the BBC's series, starring Be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMThursday, July 17, 2014
York Mansion House: Theatre Mill's site-specific production of Earnest, with its greetings from immaculately dressed flunkies and Pimms in the drawing room disturbing the discreet charm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMMonday, May 12, 2014
KC Lightstream Stadium, Hull: It might be slight in running time, but Anthony Clavane's Playing The Joker packs a lot into 50 minutes.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Hull Truck Theatre: The Kitchen Sink has had a polish and this new production of Delaney's play has made something altogether more hopeful from this gritty 1950s drama.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
York Theatre Royal: Rachel Wagstaff's script reworks her West End production as a memory play and fits together with great ease.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, January 21, 2014
York Brewery: In a small room above a York brewery a revolution's being staged.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMTuesday, December 24, 2013
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: It might be pure Victoriana but there's something imperishable about The Schoolmistress.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMMonday, December 23, 2013
De Grey Rooms, Theatre Royal, York: The birds are knotted scraps of cloth, the cat a bundle of wool.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Grand Opera House, York: Muddles looks a little surprised at the muted "aaah" from the audience. "The sympathy levels are low tonight," he says.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Hull New Theatre: As Dame Trott, Christopher Biggins' wardrobe includes a milk-maid themed number - with two sheep strapped to the front - and a cake tray with a giant iced bun as a hat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: Here the phrase 'lost in a book' is made flesh - Mick Martin's comedy, which follows unemployed dreamer Chris McCann, is a delight.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
York Theatre Royal, York: It might date from the dark days of the Second World War but there's something imperishably fresh about See How They Run. The appeal of seeing the humiliation …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMMonday, July 29, 2013
Theatre Royal, York: This Arthur is far from the knight of old in Mike Kenny's delightful play. The future king starts out as a high-spirited youth who, having bunked off from a school …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMMonday, July 8, 2013
York Theatre Royal, York: That this will be a bloody, vengeful epic is signalled in the opening scene of Nick Bagnall's production.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: There aren't many dramas which capture as honestly, or as amusingly, the struggle towards happiness. For Frank, it's the distant - very distant, judging b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
York Theatre Royal, York: There's an anguished cry from one character during the first half: "What's the point of it all?"
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: Mike Bradwell promised something "dirty and dangerous" for his directorial return to Hull Truck Theatre, and this new comedy delivers, as holidaying frien…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
York Theatre Royal: Truth is a slippery concept - in Angels and Insects, an adaptation of two novellas by AS Byatt, there are different truths, about science and religion and about relations…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThursday, March 14, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: The cast arrive as if they're in transit - striding purposefully on stage with travel cases in hand.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Hull Truck Theatre: There's a carnival atmosphere to Hull Truck's Christmas production. Featuring a cast of actor/musicians - playing instruments including guitars, keyboard and a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Hull New, Hull: Close to 50 years in the business, the Chuckle Brothers remain endearingly boyish. The duo blunder through a cooking routine (the oven explodes) and moon over Sleeping Beauty…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMThe Spa Bridlington, Bridlington: With its beastly lead character, secluded in his dark and dingy castle, there's a pleasant chill to the Spa Bridlington's panto.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:49AMMonday, November 26, 2012
The Spa Bridlington: Tice Oakfield might be a young Scrooge but he's an effective one. Stooped with weariness, he exudes bleakness like a fog - though you can't help being fond of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThursday, October 11, 2012
York Theatre Royal: Susan Watkins has described it as the "miracle of ward three". And while the playwright's drama doesn't shirk from the horrors of war, it creates some…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMThursday, September 27, 2012
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: The cobweb-fringed set, backed by a red curtain, hints at a theatrical, Victorian pastiche.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMThursday, September 20, 2012
York Theatre Royal, York: Colin Smith, the road-pounding athlete of the title, is bombarded with questions.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AM 
