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Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Jul 23-29)

Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Jul 23-29)

'Home, I'm Darling' gets the ping. Plus a James Bond mega-star in York (really!) and the best of outdoors and streaming

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Yorkshire Theatre Newsletter: What's On This Week (Jul 23-29)
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Home, I’m Darling at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre. Photo credit: Ellie Kurttz

Last week I found myself chatting to ITV news reporter Kwame Amoah Mensah, as he conducted background research about the great Freedom Day theatre ‘re-opening’.

But as I explained to him — he wasn’t a theatre person, he’s a news reporter — there wasn’t going to be a great theatre re-opening. The re-opening happened, up to a point, in May. July is a time when many theatres are winding down for an August break. Now we can look forward to the Autumn programmes, which are already beginning to go up, but with so many variants around… who can really predict the situation in two or three months’ time?

Meanwhile, legally enforced social distancing in theatre spaces may have ended, but very little in theatreland is back to normal. At least two mainstage shows have fallen victim to the current pingdemic. Six at Hull’s New Theatre has been rescheduled to Apr 5-10 next year due to members of the company testing po…

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