Nest, Leeds Year of Culture 2023: Celebrating birds and cautioning about climate change.
RSPB St Aidans was the setting for one of the most ambitious productions of Leeds Year of Culture 2023. Theatre, movement, dance and music combined to tell a story of climate emergency to an audience who followed a 90 minute performance around the reserve’s Bowers Lake. This was an issue-based drama, but not one that […]
The Libraries in Leeds Festival – Until 9 September
Leeds has a rich library heritage. The Libraries in Leeds Festival celebrates the fifty libraries that call Leeds home, including Leed’s 34 public libraries, The Leeds Library (Britain’s oldest operational subscription library) and British Library North. The inaugural Festival has enabled the various libraries: academic, public, health and specialist to connect, with each other and […]
Taxi – A Seamless Combination of Drama and Dance at The Old Woollen
Taxi takes the audience on a dramatic drive, visiting the underbelly of urban Leeds in a collaboration of Red Ladder Theatre, mad dogs dance theatre and Spin Arts. The original concept came from the founder of mad dogs dance theatre, Douglas Thorpe, a former taxi-driver. He has worked with Rod Dixon, in his final role […]
Get Off Your A**e! Festival July 2023
O’Hooley and Tidow at Old Woollen was an intimate performance of very personal songs. The last time I saw Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow in 2019, Heidi and been pregnant and Gentleman Jack was about to hit our screens. A lot has happened since then. Gentleman Jack has aired two series, their tune becoming more […]
Sabroso Street Reviewed
We arrived at 5.30pm on a Saturday evening, without a reservation, following an afternoon concert at Old Woollen in nearby Sunny Bank Mills. It seems we were lucky – by the time our food arrived, before six, walk-ins were being turned away. A few tables were in use even at 5.30pm and there was a […]
