Review: Northern Bullits: More than Words****

At Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

With a second showcase for new writers in less than a month, this Bradford theatre really is becoming a hotbed of new writing.

Northern Bullits is a temporary theatre company set up by Mark Catley to present the work of emerging talent in Yorkshire.

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Giving five new writers a chance to show off their wares is to be applauded and when the writing is of this standard it is something we can all celebrate.

Morgan Sproxton, Mike Nelson, Emma Jackson, Fiona McKinnon and Dominic Yeates are the five Catley has chosen and drilled and by the evidence of the scripts on show this week, drilled and drilled again. You won't find sparser scripts in many theatres in Yorkshire.

Catley is all about stripping work back to the bone and the writers have clearly heeded his lessons. It made for five very different, but equally compelling pieces of theatre.

In staging the work, directors Catley, Simone Lewis and Dominic Yeates don't only break the fourth wall, but smash the whole theatre apart with the action bleeding into the audience.

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Dominic Yeates' Ofgur was a high point – although a little over-long, but the standard really was impressively high.

It's impossible to do justice in this space to a theatrical venture that is bold and brilliant, does hugely inventive things with the stage and absolutely deserves your support.

To Nov 26.