Tag: theatre

Learn ‘How To…’ at Slung Low’s fifth festival

Hallowe’en arrives early in Holbeck on Sunday 2 October as Slung Low join in with the nation’s Fun Palaces by bringing you their 5th How To…Festival : Bride of The Fun Palace of Fear. A day of macabre performances, demonstrations, activities and food with Nunkie Theatre, Harrison Richards, Joe Lidster,

Beryl, The Play (Life story of Beryl Burton)

[slideshow_deploy id=’38254′] The play was Beryl, the life story of Beryl Burton, Champion Women’s Cyclist. The play was by my favourite actress Maxine Peake.  All four actors on stage play different people at times, for instance Rebecca Ryan as a young Beryl and Samantha Power as the grown up Beryl.

Christmas Fayre at the Holbeck Underground Ballroom

Pay-What-You-Decide delicious hot food and mulled wine form the focus of Slung Low’s fifth annual Christmas Fayre on Saturday (6 December 2014). The HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom) will welcome the community by bringing together local artists and craftspersons to celebrate the coming festive season. Craft stalls, home-made goodies and vintage

How to..have fun on a budget at the HUB in Holbeck

On Sunday 27 July we cycled down to Slunglow’s puppet making workshop at the “How to”… Festival at the HUB in Holbeck. The HUB (Holbeck Underground Ballroom) sits under five of the disused railway arches off Water Lane in Holbeck. It is not a venue you’d usually associate with conventional

Fairy discovered in South Leeds

  Would you like to be the next Star from South Leeds to see your name in lights? Joy Hudson hopes to follow in the footsteps of Angela Griffin. I recently had the opportunity to visit the cast of Leeds Children’s Theatre as they put on their Pinocchio costumes for

Slung Low present 15 minute plays at Holbeck WMC

  A theatre experience with a difference is promised by Hobeck-based Slung Low theatre on Sunday afternoon (10 November 2013). 15 Minutes Live is an afternoon of short dramas – radio plays performed in front of a live audience. Slung Low are collaborating with The Writing Squad to present new

Shakespeare in Middleton Park – Comedy without errors

  On Tuesday evening, on what would have been my mother’s 99th birthday, I went to see Oddsocks Theatre Company perform their production of A Comedy of Errors in Middleton Park. The weather was perfect for the outdoor event and families and friends congregated in front of the new bandstand/stage.