Are you over 18 and a budding actor or have you ever wanted just to have a go? Then here’s the opportunity for you! The brilliant Red Ladder Theatre Company are holding open auditions for their […]
Halima Mayat interviews Wakefield-based poet, writer and playwright, Michael Yates, for this week’s Big Bookend blog. Why did you decide to write a play about Branwell Bronte? I have a friend Colin Lewisohn who directed a
Lynsey Jones, a Leeds based actor, talks about her work on an exciting new show, Drink with a Chimp. “Once you are free from addiction, you are free from everything.” Spacious Places Client For the past
Escape:CYT is a youth theatre where young people are writers and theatre makers in their own right. Their new show One Plus One Equals Three opens on Thursday and group director Simon Brewis tells us how
With Red Ladder Theatre’s national tour of Nicobobinus heading to Leeds this Friday (27/28 February at the Carriageworks Theatre), Vicky Pointing tells us her memories of reading Terry Jones’ children’s book Nicobobinus. I first read
Leeds playwright, poet and performer, Zodwa Nyoni has her first full length play, Boi Boi is Dead, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, after a Channel 4 writer’s residency. Afro-jazz legend, father, lover, playboy, husband, rule breaker, enigmatic
Leeds author, Anthony Clavane examines Eddie Waring, Rugby League, Yorkshireness, revenge, revolution, betrayal and why trilby hats went out of fashion in his latest play, Playing the Joker, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 19th-23rd November.
