One Day, Maybe Kate Hainsworth 11/09/2017 From the moment Grandma (played by the brilliant Mee-young KIM) shuffles with her trolley into a too-bright lift that takes us up to the world of the ...
The Gaul Kate Hainsworth 12/10/2016 This second work in a Hull Trilogy of plays produced by Hull Truck, examines the mystery of The Gaul, the trawler boat that didn’t call May Day, but d...
Wakefield Mysteries Kate Hainsworth 16/08/2016 Don’t miss this rare promenade performance of the Wakefield Mystery plays, known as the Townley cycle! Centuries old, famed in its day for satire and ...
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis Kate Hainsworth 19/02/2016 A perfect 6! What a treat! When a multi-generational audience giggles, whoops, gasps and cries before leaping up to a standing ovation on a cold ...
Sleeping Beauty Kate Hainsworth 09/12/2015 Hull Truck’s Christmas show is a box of sweets. Candy swirls, dolly mixtures, sticks of rock and twinkling sherbets circle the stage - appropriately g...
The Famous Victories of Henry V Kate Hainsworth 20/06/2015 Royal Shakespeare Company has a cunning plan to attract young audiences to the Bard’s tricky history plays: use headstrong Hal’s path to kingship, an ...
A Taste of Honey Kate Hainsworth 03/04/2014 Wikipedia describes this play as blowing ‘a refreshing wind through British theatre’ when it was first performed by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop...
An August Bank Holiday Lark Kate Hainsworth 13/03/2014 There’s a smell of rushes as you enter the Viaduct theatre and dappled lighting across a traverse arrangement. We’re in a Lancashire Larkrise to Candl...
Ghost Town Kate Hainsworth 17/02/2014 Theatre Royal York’s intimate studio space throbs with RJ McConnell’sabstract soundscape and the scattered sand of Gem Greaves’ set (around which we c...
Blood + Chocolate Kate Hainsworth 08/10/2013 Blood + Chocolate is York’s reaction to the First World War: the call up, women’s work in the local chocolate factories, and Quaker conscientious obje...