PREVIEW: Manchester International Festival 2015
This piece was originally written for The Public Reviews, 5 March 2015. In its fifth presentation in a decade, Manchester International Festival 2015 features commissions which cross, and even defy,...
View ArticleWhat’s On? April 2015
Wednesday 1 – Sunday 5 April Historical dramas usher April in, with Anna Karenina (Royal Exchange Theatre, 19 March – 2 May) and the joint Chichester Festival Theatre and Birmingham Repertory Theatre...
View ArticleAnything Goes – Opera House, Manchester (review)
This review was originally written for The Public Reviews, 8 April 2015. After an acclaimed festive run at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, director Daniel Evans’s energetic and stylishAnything Goes...
View ArticleWhat’s On? June 2015
Monday 1 – Sunday 7 June On 16 December 2012 a young woman and her male friend boarded a bus in urban Delhi heading for home. What followed changed the lives of these two people and countless others...
View Article#MIF15: Tree of Codes – Opera House, Manchester (review)
I’m sitting in my car after seeing the public preview of Wayne McGregor’s new contemporary ballet Tree of Codes. The air con blasts out almost as loud as my music, but actually what I need is silence...
View ArticleWhat’s on – March 2016
1-6 March With two nights already sold out, be quick to book for the first night of wholly unconventional Reckless Sleepers: Negative Space (1-3 March, Contact), a wordless performance built from an...
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