Amanda Stoodley Archives - North West End UK

A shipwreck separates twins Viola and Sebastian – neither knowing whether the other survived. A local Duke is in love with a grieving countess, who in turn is falling for his new emissary. A trio of revellers plot to bring down the steward who seeks to curtail their fun. There is something for everyone in Shakespeare’s 17th century play, which at its heart explores questions of love and identity, all while serving a healthy dose of comedy. This production of Twelfth Night from Sheffield Theatres is brilliantly funny, and director Jamie Glover and his team have led the company to a product that is accessible, and full of energy and interesting character nuance. The maid, Maria (Katie Wimpenny), has an agency and feistiness that I have not seen in previous productions, and which scratc...

To kick off their delayed 50th birthday celebrations the Playhouse team commissioned both experienced and newer creatives to create short monologues boldly trying to meld the history of Leeds and events across the north over six decades since they opened their doors.. They are offering all six as the King Lear of monologues, or two lots of three like tonight’s offering spanning three decades. There may be some obscure artistic reasoning behind this but it seems odd to run them out of sequence as doing so might have added to their power. As a veteran of the eighties Leeds anarchist and squat scene it must have tempting for Alice Nutter to offer a sugar-coated version of that scene, but typically in Nicer Than Orange Squash she offers an often funny indictment of the hypocrisy an...

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Twelfth Night – Crucible Theatre

Decades: 1970s/1980s/2000s – Leeds Playhouse