Win! A family ticket for Peter Pan at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
October 28, 2008
Peter Pan
West Yorkshire Playhouse
22 November - 31 January
To mark the return of whatsonstage.com’s Yorkshire site, we’re running a competition with the West Yorkshire Playhouse to win two family tickets for a performance of seasonal classic Peter Pan.
Review: Animal Farm
October 23, 2008
Date reviewed: 23rd October 2008
Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse
Animal Farm isn’t a great book in spite of being a plain-speaking one; it’s a great book partly because it is so forthright and precise. From Orwell’s perspective, it would only have hindered his aim to have made his analogies opaque, while, from the reader’s, its cutting humour is mainly a result of the doggedness with which the plot tails (no pun etc) events during and following the Russian Revolution. Read more
Armitage’s Medieval translation to debut at Lawrence Batley
October 22, 2008
Distinguished Huddersfield poet Simon Armitage’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is to debut at the town’s Lawrence Batley Theatre tomorrow before beginning a six-month national tour. The production is a collaboration between Lawrence Batley and New Perspectives Theatre Company, and performances at Lawrence Batley will take place between 23 and 25 October. It is to return to Yorkshire mid-tour, with performances at The Carriageworks (18 and 19 February), Harrogate Theatre (20 and 21 February) and Rotherham Arts Centre (6 March).
The Medieval poem, which has also been translated by JRR Tolkien, recounts the tale of the sudden appearance of an unknown knight at the court of King Arthur on New Year’s Eve, his open challenge to which the intrepid Sir Gawain responds and the eventful journey that Sir Gawain undertakes to try to make sure that he keeps his agreement with the Green Knight a year later. Full of romance, humour and chivalry, it is one of the core works in the canon of English literature. Read more