Reece Dinsdale Archives - North West End UK

2Dec

By Paul ClarkeNo Comments

Yorkshire & Humber

A Christmas Carol – Leeds Playhouse

The festive extravaganzas at Leeds Playhouse have become a must see for Yorkshire theatre fans, and this year for A Christmas Carol they have thrown their big guns at yet another version of this hoary old favourite. This is director Amy Leach’s fifth go at Dickens’ classic tale of a damaged man’s redemptive journey, and it’s her biggest yet. She joins forces for the 22nd time with set and costume designer Hayley Grindle as they cleverly move the action from Victorian London to the cotton mills of Leeds. That works really well as it’s a reminder this great city’s wealth was also built on ruthlessly exploiting the working class. Unusually for a Playhouse festive show we are not in the round on the huge Quarry stage. Leach’s typically dynamic and witty direction makes the most of Grindl...

Reece Dinsdale returns to Leeds Playhouse to play Scrooge

24Nov

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Interviews

Reece Dinsdale returns to Leeds Playhouse to play Scrooge

Reece Dinsdale is Yorkshire acting royalty and is once again back at his spiritual home Leeds Playhouse taking on the iconic role of Ebenezer Scrooge in their festive version of A Christmas Carol. The Normanton born actor played Jack Rover in what was then the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s very first production when they opened with Wild Oats, and since then he has starred in eight more shows at the Leeds theatre. Away from the stage, where he also worked at the National Theatre, Reece began his successful TV career opposite John Thaw in the hit sitcom Home to Roost. He’s also appeared in Threads, Spooks, Life on Mars, Murder on Mind, Silent Witness and Ahead of the Class with Julie Walters. He has the rare distinction of being killed off in both Corrie and Emmerdale, but both soaps hav...

Through It All Together – Leeds Playhouse

29Jun

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Yorkshire & Humber

Through It All Together – Leeds Playhouse

In theatrical circles stories from the world of football seem to be very much in vogue at present, already in 2025, I have reviewed “Red or Dead’ at Liverpool Royal Court and the smash UK touring production of ‘Dear England’ in Salford. Completing my personal hat trick is ‘Through It All Together’ a poignant and funny new play from local Leeds writer Chris O’Connor, which explores the subject of dementia through the lens of a family's passion for Leeds United and their manager Marcelo Bielsa. We join the action in the Summer of 2018 with Howard (Reece Dinsdale), Sue (Shobna Gulati) and their daughter Hazel (Natalie Davies) struggling to cope following Howard’s recent diagnosis with Dementia. Howard forgets little things, like where the milk is in the kitchen; he also constantly repeats ...

Leeds Playhouse has announced a Premier League line-up for the world premiere of football play Through it All Together

20May

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NEWS

Leeds Playhouse has announced a Premier League line-up for the world premiere of football play Through it All Together

It’s a love letter to Leeds United’s eccentric former boss Marcelo Bielsa as Shobna Gulati and Reece Dinsdale play Sue and Howard, a Yorkshire couple navigating a diagnosis of dementia. As they deal with the traumatic aftermath of that news, they find comfort cheering on their beloved Leeds United as they returned to the Premier League during the Argentinian’s glory days in his first two years as he developed a style of flowing football that became known as ‘Bielsaball’. Shobna Gulati is best known for iconic roles including Anita in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies and Sunita Alahan in Coronation Street. Shobna also portrayed Mari Hoff in the UK tour of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Ray in the West End production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie. Reece Dinsdale is a Yo...