This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Cookie settingsACCEPT
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities...
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT
    • Politics
    • Transport
    • Lifestyle
    • Community
    • Business
    • Crime
    • Environment
    • Health
    • Education
    • Sport
    • Harrogate
    • Ripon
    • Knaresborough
    • Boroughbridge
    • Pateley Bridge
    • Masham
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts

Interested in advertising with us?

Advertise with us

  • News & Features
  • Your Area
  • What's On
  • Offers
  • Newsletter
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Transport
  • Lifestyle
  • Community
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Education
  • Sport
Advertise with us
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Latest News

We want to hear from you

Tell us your opinions and views on what we cover

Contact us
Connect with us
  • About us
  • Advertise your job
  • Correction and complaints
Download on App StoreDownload on Google Play Store
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Statement
  • Comments Participation T&Cs
Trust In Journalism

Copyright © 2020 The Stray Ferret Ltd, All Rights Reserved

Site by Show + Tell

Subscribe to trusted local news

In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever. By subscribing, you can help us get the story right.

  • Subscription costs less than £1 a week with an annual plan.

Already a subscriber? Log in here.

02

Oct 2023

Last Updated: 02/10/2023

Review: An Audience with Barrie Rutter at Ripon Arts Hub

by Lauren Crisp

| 02 Oct, 2023
Comment

0

barrie-2



Lauren Crisp is a book editor, writer and keen follower of arts and culture. Born and raised in Harrogate, Lauren recently moved back to North Yorkshire after a stint in London, where she regularly reviewed theatre – everything from big West End shows to small fringe productions. She is now eager to explore the culture on offer in and around her home town.  You can contact Lauren on laurencrispwriter@gmail.com 

 




On Sunday evening, celebrated actor and director Barrie Rutter addressed an audience of theatre and poetry lovers at Ripon Arts Hub. This was the finale of a culturally rich season of events in Ripon, and a collaboration between Ripon Poetry Festival and Ripon Theatre Festival.

Yorkshire-born-and-bred theatre legend Rutter received the Sam Wanamaker Award, for pioneering Shakespearean theatre, in 2003, and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for services to drama.

He is perhaps best known as the founder and former artistic director of ground-breaking touring theatre company Northern Broadsides, based in Halifax. The organisation was created to bring together northern casts who would speak in unapologetically northern dialect, delivering Shakespeare to northern audiences to perform in venues that Rutter describes as “non-velvet” – from boatsheds in Hull to cattle markets in Skipton. His work gained him a reputation as a true trailblazer and as an ultimate champion of theatre in the north.

With a career spanning over 50 years, spent on stage, on screen and in theatres across the world, Rutter has a great many stories to tell. He seamlessly interspersed personal anecdotes – from mingling with jazz musicians in 1970s New York, to getting drunk in champagne caves with his friend, Hugh Griffith, of Ben-Hur fame, to his favourite behind-the-scenes Shakespeare stories – with poetry, prose, and musings on language, citing everything from Baudelaire to Bilston, along with his poetry, the poetry of his friends, and that of the north.

An entertainer in the purest form of the word, Rutter is forthright and wry, yet measured and precise in his reflections; in the intimate space of Ripon Arts Hub, his thoughts and tales made for captivating listening. His love for language, the way words work, and the magic of word play were all on resplendent display, and he plotted these, humorously and often poignantly, against the story of his life, career, and the people he has met along the way.




Read More



  • New street food vendor opens in Ripon

  • Harrogate district Wetherspoons to host 12-day real ale festival