Hull Truck theatre
Little Shop of Horrors review – evergreen musical back for another bite
With its irresistible harmonies, this comedy about a blood-guzzling plant has plenty to savour but it lacks satirical punch and menace
Chris Wiegand
05, Mar, 2024 @9:30 PM
Pinocchio review – no wooden acting in an action-packed musical voyage
Eliza Blair plays the puppet-child on an adventure of self-discovery in this slightly muddled yet well-performed version of Collodi’s story
Mark Fisher
29, Nov, 2023 @11:50 AM
Do I Love You? review – laughter and pain in John Godber’s northern soul comedy
Three struggling twentysomethings find solace in dance in the writer-director’s well performed if not quite satisfying new work
Clare Brennan
12, Nov, 2023 @11:30 AM
Around the World in 80 Days review – a stately adventure
This engaging production makes the most of a small cast and minimal staging, but needs more urgency early on
Clare Brennan
14, May, 2023 @10:30 AM
Mumsy review – brilliant bittersweet comedy about the family way
Lydia Marchant’s sparky debut play about pregnancy and the cost of living finds three generations of mothers forced to share a flat
Chris Wiegand
08, Mar, 2023 @11:11 AM
Teechers Leavers 22 review – John Godber’s rowdy comedy graduates with honours
Updated for the era of remote learning, Godber’s 1987 work is still joyously energetic and bitter about systemic inequalities
Mark Fisher
25, May, 2022 @10:52 AM
71 Coltman Street review – the raucous origins of Hull Truck theatre company
One-liners and vernacular idiosyncrasies at the ready, the Hull-born One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean takes us back to 1971 and the founding of a local institution
Nick Ahad
27, Feb, 2022 @12:25 PM
‘I wanted to be a nuisance’: the riotous rise of Hull Truck
From its origins 50 years ago in a clapped-out van and a house with broken furniture and feral cats, the theatre company won accolades and abuse in equal measure
Mike Bradwell
06, Jan, 2022 @12:10 PM
From a joyous Mancunian Wiz to the most charming of Beasts – the best Christmas family shows
The Railway Children reduces our critic to tears, and a topical take on The Wizard of Oz blows her away as festive family shows return with a bang
Clare Brennan
05, Dec, 2021 @10:30 AM
‘You’re looking at the person you love’: the married couple playing Romeo and Juliet
Laura Elsworthy and Jordan Metcalfe, who wed in Stratford upon Avon in 2018, are playing the star-crossed lovers in their home town of Hull
Chris Wiegand
06, Jul, 2021 @9:30 AM
‘We had illicit snogs backstage!’ Love letters to theatres
Kerry Godliman, Genevieve Barr, James Graham and more share memories of the theatres that changed their lives
Compiled by Chris Wiegand
21, Jul, 2020 @12:00 PM
Peter Pan review – Barrie classic staged with plenty of pixie dust
Making Wendy younger gives a different dynamic to Deborah McAndrew’s engaging adaptation, with Baker Mukasa’s spontaneous Peter
Mark Fisher
05, Dec, 2019 @12:33 PM
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