Theatre and performance in Greater Manchester & other places.
Review of Let The Right One In at Royal Exchange, Manchester. Tickets for front row seats for Let The Right One In come with the printed warning “risk of blood splatter” - and wherever you sit, the Royal Exchange’s latest show delivers plenty of spills, thrills and shivers. In perhaps its most shocking twist though, [...]
Review of Electric Rosary at Royal Exchange, Manchester. St Grace’s Convent, the setting for Tim Foley’s new play Electric Rosary, has seen better days. The pleasing symmetry of the chapel’s parquet flooring is now cluttered with cardboard storage boxes, and a bucket sits ready to catch rain drops from the leaking roof. Disrepair isn’t the [...]
Royal Exchange, Manchester. “It starts with a girl called Elle, she’s not your average leading lady as well, she has a heart the size of the moon, she’s far from been brought up with a silver spoon, in her gob” Centre stage, and swigging from a bottle of beer, Lauryn Redding sets the scene within [...]
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