Theatre and performance in Greater Manchester & other places.
Review of Too Much World At Once at HOME, Manchester. At the heart of Too Much World At Once is a family struggling to communicate with one another, in a world edging ever closer to catastrophe. It is Noble’s fifteenth birthday, and he’s wrestling with his feelings. He is missing his older sister Cleo who [...]
The Lowry at The Welcome Inn, Salford. News that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, would undoubtedly focus the mind. Whether, as the end of the world approaches, most people would choose to channel that heightened state of mental alertness into pondering some trivia questions down the pub is certainly open to [...]
HOME, Manchester. PUSH Festival 2020. Following its first appearance at PUSH Festival two years ago, PlayBox Takeover (from theatre company Box of Tricks) returns once more to HOME's annual celebration of North West talent. An inspiring way to kickstart PUSH 2020's theatre strand, the day-long programme of workshops and conversations targeting local writers and theatre-makers [...]
26 September 2019. Box of Tricks at The Lowry, Salford. "We're not friends okay, and that's fine, more than, but could you just . . . I don't want to talk, alright?". Paul's desperate plea to Michael to be left alone isn't the most obvious indication that a friendship is about to form, and yet [...]
HOME, Manchester. 14 February 2019. "I've got two dads. One's white. One's black". David Judge's new play unflinchingly explores identity, race and family through the lens of his own experiences, as a mixed-race child adopted by a white man. Performed as a monologue by Judge, the story is told from the perspective of Dave, a [...]
HOME, Manchester. 20 - 27 January 2018. Over the sixteen days of HOME's annual PUSH Festival I saw a total of twenty pieces of work in various stages of development. I've already written about the first week, here are my thoughts on the shows I enjoyed in the second (and final) week. One the strengths [...]
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