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By Ian Youngs
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The stage is set for English theatres to reopen from Monday, and venues are banking on crowds returning this summer. Which shows are opening, will audiences return - and could the comeback be short-lived?
If a playwright had written the pandemic, a theatre critic might have struggled to pin down its genre - tragedy, thriller, depressing kitchen sink drama or farce?
But they might have recognised the writer s skill in timing the plot twists.
Just as you think you re finally getting to the happy ending, the suspense, tension and terror begin to build again.
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8:57 AM May 1, 2021
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A show from London-based artist Mel Brimfield includes a constellation of audio monologues, fragmented theatrical sets, moving image work and large-scale drawings
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Real-life events are here at last - let Tony Greenway give your a reminder of what to expect.
until August 30
Mel Brimfield: From This World, to That Which Is to Come, The Tetley, Leeds
A show from London-based artist Mel Brimfield which takes its title from John Bunyan s The Pilgrim s Progress, but reimagines it as a loose allegory for a collapse of mental health and the fraught journey to recovery. Work on display includes a constellation of audio monologues, fragmented theatrical sets, moving image work and large-scale drawings.
From imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse, the creators of last year s critically acclaimed unique shot-for-shot stage recreation of George A. Romero s classic 1968 zombie movie - Night of The Living Dead - Remix comes a radical new adaptation of Bram Stoker s classic gothic horror novel. Dracula: The Untold Story will bring audiences this enduring tale from the perspective of Mina Harker, the novel s heroine.
Written and directed by imitating the dog s co-artistic directors Andrew Quick and Pete Brooks, Dracula: The Untold Story will open at Leeds Playhouse from 25 Sept - 9 Oct ahead of a UK tour.
New Year s Eve, 1965, London, England. Just before midnight, as revellers celebrate the beginning of another year, a young woman enters Marylebone Police Station and confesses to a brutal murder.