Theatre | A Play in a Day
5/5 Stars As one might expect, staging a play with only 12 hours of rehearsal time is no mean feat. However, I have to say Theatre Group managed it with such incredible style, they may have even beaten Oscar Wilde at his own game. The Importance of Being Earnest was a fantastic choice – being [...]
Theatre | Pornography
3/5 Stars LUU Theatre Group takes another big dive into the deep end with their most recent production. Pornography is the work of winning English Playwright Simon Stephens, who like Sarah Kane, is part of the in-yer-face generation of writers. The play certainly delivers on its promise with a deluge of shocking material that leaves [...]
Theatre | Do You Expect Me To Talk?
Do You Expect Me to Talk? begins by questioning our societal obsession with the verb ‘should’, setting up some intriguing thoughts and light-humour before moving onto much darker questions. Presented to us by both Leeds and York students, is a series of monologues and sketches that unveil the stigmatized truths of mental health. Depression, anorexia, [...]
Theatre | Jesus Christ Superstar
4/5 Stars The Music Theatre Society‘s presentation of Jesus Christ Superstar was an astoundingly accomplished and impressive performance, easily destroying any false preconceptions about student productions, and showcasing remarkable talent and vision all across the board, from the acting and music, to the dancing and visual effects. All blended together with fluency and notable skill, creating a performance that [...]
Theatre | Rabbitskin
A slice of new theatre comes to Seven Arts. 4/5 Stars Dominic Grace’s new play Rabbitskin claims it asks its audiences to “consider how easy it is for us to listen to other people’s stories, but how difficult it is to tell our own”. If you haven’t read this on the back cover of the [...]
Theatre | Dr Faustus
Alice Rafter gives us her views on this innovative remaking of Marlowe’s 400 year old play. 3/5 Stars West Yorkshire Playhouse’s new production of Dr Faustus gives a classic play a clever modern twist, with additional theatrical magic. When a seemingly normal bed starts to move and a ‘demon’ arises from within it, when pearls [...]
Theatre | Woyzeck
3/5 stars stage@leeds February 21 Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck follows one man’s descent into the rabbit hole of insanity and remains titanic on the landscape of modern drama through the universality of its central themes. Büchner’s damning social critique is a working-class German tragedy worthy of its Sophoclean predecessors, making it a challenge for any [...]
Preview | A Servant to Two Masters
Seven Arts, March 12 – 14th A Servant to Two Masters is the latest full-scale production from LUU Theatre group. The show will start it’s three day run on March 12th, and, for the first time, is being produced entirely by level one students. I asked the directors Sammy, Lucy and Ben a bit about [...]
Preview | A Play in a Day
The Workshop Theatre, March 10th Comic Relief kicked off in style today with the cast of Fresh Meat appearing to deliver an impromptu comedy lecture on Leeds University Campus. With Red Nose Day only two weeks away, I met with Cordi Morrison and Tess Schofield to discuss LUU Theatre Group’s unique contribution to the national [...]