Blackhouse – All The Right Ingredients
When I visited Blackhouse I was determined not to just eat meat. As a city centre restaurant that attracts office workers, a range of tastes needs to be met. So I was pleased to see a reasonable number of vegetarian and fish dishes alongside the grilled meat. Our orders were taken promptly, a bottle of […]
My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored
A Red Ladder Theatre Company production with support from Leeds Playhouse and Oldham Coliseum Theatre Leeds-based Red Ladder interrogates the situation that plays out when 15 year old Reese confronts Gillian, his black teacher, who saw him accosted and held on the ground by police, but did nothing to help him. I have fond memories […]
The Trial at Seven Arts – Reviewed
Proper Job Theatre Company and Chris O’Connor have delivered an interpretation of Kafka for the digital age. The Trial is a story about alienation and power. Franz Kafka presents Joseph K as an individual who is ground down by a system he doesn’t understand, arrested for a crime that is never revealed to him. Chris […]
Bab Tooma – Tastes of Syria
The brightly lit interior of Bab Tooma was welcoming on a dismal autumn evening. The restaurant has had a complete make over, following its many years serving curry as Nawab. The Middle Eastern motif includes beautiful coloured glass lamps, fabric covered benches and sturdy wooden tables. We were quickly seated. A carafe of fresh water […]
Dracula – The Untold Story
The play starts just before midnight, on New Year’s Eve 1965, seventy years after the death of Dracula. A woman enters a police station and declares herself to be both a murderer and Mina Harker. Initially dismissive, the two interrogating police officers are drawn into her tale, as is the audience. Multimedia innovators imitating the […]
