AGENDA

The Agenda THE BEST EVENTS IN YORKSHIRE

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DANCE The Bodyguard

7-11 FEBRUARY, ALHAMBRA THEATRE

The international, award-winning smash-hit musical The Bodyguard is back, starring Pussycat Doll, and multi-platinum Grammy nominated, Melody Thornton as Rachel Marron. Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – but what they don't expect is to fall in love.

FILM

The Whale

From 3 February CITY SCREEN, YORK A reclusive English teacher su ering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. The latest fi lm from acclaimed director, Darren Aronofsky, stars Brendan Fraser like you have never seen him before. The fi lm is generating plenty of Oscar and awards buzz, so make sure you catch it at one of Yorkshire’s fi nest cinemas. picturehouses.com

ART Samra Mayanja

10 February-4 June 2023 THE TETLEY Samra Mayanja presents The Living and the Stale, her fi rst solo institutional exhibition. Exploring the idea of lostness, Samra presents a new body of work in the form of a novella, installations, drawings, a score and moving image work. The exhibition brings together her poetry and images made whilst travelling around Uganda searching for bark cloth and Ham Mukasa’s archive, but also being met by her father’s history. thetetley.org

THEATRE

BIRDS AND BEES

Until 11 February PLAYHOUSE, SHEFFIELD Click and it’s gone — too far, too fast. Leilah is wondering if her Instagram is more of a burden than ‘living her best life’. Billy’s queer and proud, but ignored by the education system; they’re tired of feeling invisible. Aarron is learning how to be a man online and it’s starting to feel toxic. And Maisy… well Maisy’s not that into sex, thank you very much. Thrown together, these four confront their di erences and realise their power to make change. she eldtheatres.co.uk

MUSIC

Florence + The Machine

4 February FIRST DIRECT ARENA In a gig rescheduled from last year, Florence and her brilliant band are back on the road, no doubt showcasing the brilliance of their latest album, Dance Fever. Expect a thrilling live show, with some truly lung bursting moments and top, top songs that you just can’t help but sing along to. fi rstdirectarena.com

This Month’s Must See DAISIE JACOBS

UNTIL 6 MARCH, THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD

Hepworth Wakefi eld’s 2022 Print Fair Prize winner, Daisie Jacobs, takes over the Café exhibition space.

Through the mediums of moving image and photography, Daisie works with themes of the physical human form; the obscured; and the less frequented underside of life. The works on display are cyanotypes, one of the oldest photographic printing processes. hepworthwakefi eld.org

THE HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD PHOTO: HUFTON CROW

CINEMATIC MAGIC

A unique book brings together unseen photographs of Hollywood’s biggest names

A book that has caught our eye recently is Film Noir Portraits from Reel Art Press, which includes unseen images and previously unpublished outtakes from Night of the Hunter and Sweet Smell of Success, and classic stills from fi lms like Gilda, Double Indemnity and Lady From Shanghai. Subjects range from A-list superstars (Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart) to the fi nest character actors of the period (Gale Sondergaard, Jean Brooks, Dolores del Rio, George Raft).

A collaboration between Paul Duncan and Tony Nourmand, two of the UK’s most renowned experts on fi lm noir and fi lm art, respectively, the book also features images from celebrated B-noirs like Gun Crazy and The Hitchhiker to delight the most ardent cinephile. The photographs are handpicked from the collection of mptv, one of the world’s most exclusive archives of entertainment photography, and every page has been printed in Reel Art Press’s exceptional quality. reelartpress.com

RITA HAYWORTH IN GILDA

THE BIG SLEEP