Theatre and performance in Greater Manchester & other places.
Review of Private Lives at Royal Exchange, Manchester. On honeymoon in the south of France, Amanda discovers that her first husband Elyot is staying in the hotel suite next door, celebrating his recent marriage to new wife Sibyl. It is hard not to feel that Amanda’s description of the situation as a “little unfortunate”, fails [...]
Review of A Taste Of Honey at Royal Exchange, Manchester. “Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.” At times, director Emma Baggott’s sure-footed revival of A Taste of Honey feels as if it is summoning up the ghosts of Shelagh Delaney’s Salford. In its opening moments, Nishla Smith’s stylish jazz singer [...]
Circles & Stalls 