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 […]
Opera North With Phoenix Dance Theatre – Bernstein
Following Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi‘s shared billing with Haitian choreographer Jeanguy Saintus’ take on Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 2019, Opera North’s joint ventures with Phoenix Dance Theatre are now firmly-established red-letter days in the Leeds Cultural Calendar. Here, Matthew Eberhardt’s production of Bernstein’s Trouble In Tahiti, a valuable and flexible asset to Opera North […]
Opera North and Bizet’s Carmen at Leeds Grand Theatre
The lights dimmed, the auditorium darkened and the orchestra, in full-on life-affirming tutti, burst upon us with the familiar strains of Les Toréadors, its opening, as ever, pulsating with resplendent cymbals, bass drum and triangle, then repeated for good measure, the little detached trumpet figuration a few bars on, observantly quiet, yet nicely in its […]
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 […]
CITHRA – A first solo exhibition by Lauren Gault
The exhibition was first staged in London at the Gasworks but has now transferred to The Tetley in Leeds. These are very different spaces and I was interested to see how Lauren had responded to the challenge of using the historic building. The title of the exhibition has evolved from Gault’s research into the life […]
