3/5
These separately authored mini-dramas, set in the 1970s, '80s and '90s in West Yorkshire, provided some genuinely powerful writing
20 May 2021 • 5:13pm
Connor Elliott as Wilf in Simon Armitage's The Bodyguard, one of the highlights of Decades
Credit: Zoe Martin
As Covid-19 restrictions are eased, tentatively, in England’s theatres, Leeds Playhouse (which is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary) has been quick out of the traps with Decades, a series of six newly created monologues for small, physically distanced audiences. The collection of mini-dramas, by six different writers, including Simon Armitage and Maxine Peake, are a diverse collection of tales set in Leeds and West Yorkshire in each decade from the 1970s forward.