Ellen Leslie

I am Theatre News Editor for The Indiependent and I have written for Dundee Courier, The List and The Focus. I hope to break into local news.

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RNIB Launch New Initiative To Make Games More Accessible For People With Sight Loss : The Indiependent

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) has launched a new initiative to help video game developers make their games accessible for people with sight loss.The initiative, known as Design for Every Gamer, will include a player testing panel. The panel is made up of gamers with sight loss. They have a wide range of experience and interests, and the charity hopes they can help developers and academia to make their games and studies more inclusive to those with sight loss.As part of the...
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Theatre Round Up: What To Watch In December 2024 : The Indiependent

It’s time to dust off the decorations, crack open the mince pies and don your glitteriest clothing, because December is finally here. If you find yourself with some free time between Christmas shopping and present wrapping, here are our top theatre picks for December.Oor Wullie: Dundee Rep, running until 30 December.Scotland’s cheekiest scamp Oor Wullie is back to Dundee Rep in their annual December show. Featuring favourites from the beloved comic strip like Primrose, Boab and Soapy Soutar, the...
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A Unique Musical Showcasing Brilliant Talent: Technically A Musical Review : The Indiependent

★★★★In this unique musical, Technically: A Musical takes us behind the curtain, placing the backstage crew in the spotlight. It is show week, and the crew is already swamped with all the work that needs to be done before curtains up. When the Director announces that the lead actor has quit an hour before the show is due to start, it is up to the crew to save the day. After all, the show must go on, right?Like any good musical, it is packed with a variety of songs from upbeat tempos to slower one...
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Long Distance Reveals The Intricacies of A Queer, Distanced Relationship: Review : The Indiependent

★★★A long-distance relationship may sound like a difficult concept to portray well on the stage, but Long Distance does it with ease. A queer love story, the show is told through the texts between a young couple (Lewis Merrylees and Jonathan Rubin) as they fall in love, fight, and ultimately break up. Two actors stand on the stage meters apart, never touching and rarely looking at each other, but they have fantastic chemistry, and manage to paint a vivid picture of their relationship.Unfortunate...
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A Masterclass In Acting: Rita Lynn: Life Coach Review : The Indiependent

★★★★Louise Marwood’s semi-autobiographical show Rita Lynn: Life Coach is a darkly comic tale depicting the nature of addiction. After Louise’s ambitions of becoming a dancer do not reach fruition, she becomes addicted to drugs, and gets trapped in a toxic relationship with her boyfriend Dexter. In a desperate stint to get her life back on track, she applies to be a PA for a rich housewife, only to end up as her life coach after she invents an alter-ego—Rita Lynn, named after her drug of choice—i...
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Unseen Shines A Light On The Work of Broadway Dressers: Review : The Indiependent

★★★★Using just a few laundry baskets and hand props, Kimberly Prentice reveals backstage secrets from Broadway in her one-woman show Unseen. Based on her experiences of working as a dresser when she moved to New York to pursue a dance career, it is a humorous yet inspiring play detailing some of the highs and lows of the theatre industry.Unless you’ve ever been backstage while a performance is happening, you probably haven’t given much thought about what goes on. A vital role, the dresser’s main...
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'Two Point Museum' To Be Released March 2025 : The Indiependent

Two Point Museum is set for release on 4 March 2025, it has been confirmed.Created by SEGA, Two Point Museum will allow players to create and manage their own museum while dealing with a range of interesting challenges. To succeed, players must send experts to find new artifacts, while keeping guests and staff happy. Two of the museum themes available to play—marine life and prehistory—have also been confirmed.A special Explorer Edition is available to purchase, which provides five days of Early...
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100% My Type On Paper Is An Interesting Concept That Doesn't Quite Hit The Mark: Review : The Indiependent

★★Sammy and Clyde are on their first date. Complete with oversharing, sweaty palms and cringey jokes, it could quite easily rank in the top ten of most awkward dates to ever occur. Luckily for them, they get the chance to repeat it over and over again until it is almost perfect: they are starring in a reality TV show, complete with a director who is never pleased. 100% My Type On Paper is an examination of how love is falsely presented on reality television.Despite the interesting concept, the p...
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The Book of Mountains and Seas Is A Captivating Play About Love and Loss: Review : The Indiependent

★★★★Written by Yilong Liu, The Book of Mountains and Seas is an examination of grief and loss. Archie’s dad meets up with his late son’s boyfriend Andrew to enlist his help on a mission: visit all 179 places that Archie reviewed on his Yelp page. At first Andrew is reluctant to help: Archie has been dead for almost as long as they were dating, and he wants to move on. However, after some compromise (and a little bit of blackmail in the form of a negative review left for Andrew’s photography busi...
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Villain Era Highlights Trolling And Online Misogyny: Review : The Indiependent

★★★When aspiring actor Star Stone saw an ad looking for vegans to audition for a YouTube sketch show, she jumped at the chance. Little did she know that the clip would go viral, and she would become an internet villain overnight. Villain Era is a comedy multimedia show that tells Stone’s story of being viciously trolled for years after she was perceived as being aggressive, and the long-lasting effect it has had on her life.The concept of the show, she explains, was to find out who was the meat...
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