Independent journalism that cares less about right and left and more about right and wrong. Max Capacity 100 Facilities; Send Lawrence Batley Theatre an enquiry to check venue availability VIEW MORE LOCAL VENUES View all. “I’m absolutely committed to keeping going and coming out of the other side of the pandemic as strong as possible and if that means I sleep next year, then so be it.”. The building was formerly a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1819 by Joseph Kaye. There is a Cellar Theatre or cabaret space in the basement. Filloux-Bennett has also, impressively, been producing his own work during lockdown. The technical apparatus and ventilation ducts are all frankly exposed to view. Visit the website and you will see a host of different shows being offered up on the stage, starting last week with an evening of variety that invokes The Good Old Days, hosted by Huddersfield’s own drag star Miss Dameana. In Toast that sense of autobiography which filters through his recipes became explicit in his account of his childhood and adolescence. There’s a recipe in one of his very early books, Real Cooking, for “A creamy, colourful, fragrant chicken curry” which he candidly admits is “seriously unauthentic”, with ingredients that will leave some purists “really pissed-off”. Conversion to the present theatre took place in 1994. It is not completely clear whether Kaye was architect or builder but he should not, in any case, be confused with the Joseph Kay (no ‘e’) who was surveyor to Greenwich Hospital and author of St Mary-in-the-Castle, Hastings. Slater remembers for instance when his father attempted the then exotic dish of spaghetti Bolognese, only for them to throw it away because the strange powdered cheese they added – called Parmesan – smelt “like sick”. The original plan of the chapel dictates that not only the auditorium but the back wall of the stage are convex-curved on plan. I knew what a Howard Hodgkin painting would look like before I ever saw one because of Nigel Slater. Studio Wayne McGregor, Northern Ballet and Gary Clarke Company unite in a triple bill titled Locked down. (see below). But it’s a wonderful recipe, and as ever this is partly to do with the words he chooses to describe it. All the food crimes of the Sixties and Seventies are revealed here as Michelin-starred memories. Jonathan Coe’s satirical novel What a Carve Up! But living. “I don’t know. There is also a ghost walk, and a triple bill of work by Wayne McGregor, Northern Ballet and Gary Clarke all filmed in the empty theatre and screened to audience members on their chosen date. It’s a format that works very well for Slater’s intimate evocative style. Now Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre has reinvented it as a new form of theatre for the age of Covid. I don’t have weekends or days off or evenings off is basically how it works at the moment, but that’s the deal,” he says. Tonight highly regarded performance poet Luke Wright is bringing his show The Remains of Logan Dankworth to the theatre and next Thursday and Friday, September 24 and 25, Power, the story of a circus Strong Lady is brought to the stage in a one-woman show. lessees. Yet ultimately the food in his life proves both redemptive and transformative. Auditorium lifts permit a variety of configurations dictated by the brief (possibly too many for long-term economy and convenience) and the effective capacity depends partly on the effect each arrangement has on sightlines. Even his stepmother could create a lemon meringue pie that was “one of the most glorious things I had ever put in my mouth”. The Lawrence Batley Theatre, Queen's Square, Queen Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2SP Registered Office: Kirklees Theatre Trust, C/O Legal Services, 2nd Floor, Civic Centre III, Huddersfield, HD1 2WZ Company No. It then served from 1978 as a squash club and disco. From Tuesday 5th to Sunday 10th March, A Festival will take over the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield.. How is Filloux-Bennett managing to make all this while helming a theatre through the choppy waters of Covid? In a particularly nice flourish, this Lawrence Batley Theatre production provides its weblink accompanied by a recipe card, so you can get a more three-dimensional experience than usual through cooking food suggested by Slater. In return, you'll see fewer ads on site, get free access to our app and receive exclusive members-only offers. The building was originally built in 1819 as a Methodist chapel, called the Queen Street Chapel. Early Excellence. Your subscription will help us to continue to bring quality news to the people of Yorkshire. “As the weeks and months passed, the question became more when we re-open, what will we be able to do? Simply enter your email address in the box below, Slater's account fuses love for his mother with burnt toast and his father’s restrictive attitude to sexuality with sweets, Cooking is the prism through which Slater views the world. 510693 | Kirklees Theatre Trusts is a company limited by guarantee. “Operationally the biggest challenges have been how can we make it safe in terms of customers coming in and out of the building, ordering drinks, using our toilet facilities, entering and exiting the auditorium – things that up until recently we’d all taken for granted, but now we have to think about every possible aspect of what we do.”. I take full advantage of the national platform to be as Northern-centric and Yorkshire-championing as I can be, which is why one of the five highlights I chose to talk about was Romeo and Juliet performed in the courtyard of Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley Theatre by the irreverent theatre company Handlebards. The auditorium is on three levels with straight-sided balconies.
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