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The Mary Play from the N-Town Manuscript, ed, Peter Meredith. Harlow: Longamn, 1987. A facsimile of the manuscript from the British Library was also published: The N-Town Plays: a facsimile of British Library MS Cotton Vespasian D VIII. Ed. Peter Meredith and Stanley J. Kahrl. Leeds: University of Leeds School of English, 1977.
Sisters of Fortune is the tale of two girls of different financial backgrounds growing up in Leeds, and was republished as Halfpenny Dreams. [11] Her plays include Tressell, about Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. [12] An archive of her literary papers is held by the University of Leeds. [13]
The Mysteries is a 1977 play by Leeds poet Tony Harrison based on the York and Wakefield Mystery Cycles. The York Realist, by Peter Gill, is set around a 1960s performance of the Plays. [6] Anthony Minghella's Two Planks and a Passion is set around a c. 1392 performance of the plays for Richard II.
Live at Leeds is the first live album by the English rock band the Who, recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970 and released on 11 May 1970, by Decca and MCA in the United States [2] and by Track and Polydor in the United Kingdom.
Almost the entire Leeds show was later broadcast in mono by the BBC. A stereo version of the Chuck Berry cover "Let It Rock" from the same concert was officially released on the Spanish edition of Sticky Fingers in 1971. A recording of "Let It Rock" from the Leeds concert appeared on the "Brown Sugar" maxi single in the UK.
It was designed by James Robinson Watson, chief assistant in the office of Leeds-based architect George Corson, and opened on 18 November 1878.It was built as a complex in three parts: the theatre, a set of six shops and Assembly Rooms, all facing onto New Briggate, in High Victorian style of red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof, the whole being a Grade II* listed building.
Leeds has some of the finest theatres in the UK and offers a wide range of entertainment, from music hall evenings and pantos at the City Varieties, to West End plays and musicals at Leeds Playhouse and Leeds Grand Theatre. Leeds is also home to the internationally renowned and award-winning Opera North and Northern Ballet.
His plays are performed across the world, Bouncers (1977) being the most popular. In 2004 he became a visiting professor of Popular Theatre at Liverpool Hope University. He has also been professor of drama at Hull University. In 2011, Godber became creative director at Theatre Royal Wakefield and set up the John Godber Company as its resident ...