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David Threlfall (King Lear) in King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray

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King Lear Royal Exchange 50th anniversary production: Review

Is Lear mad? Or is he driven mad? The genius of Shakespeare is that he leaves this question open for us to decide. Lear may be as ‘mad as the vexed sea’, or it may simply be senescence or the onset...

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The Silence of the Lambs: Theatre Review

When you think about it, within the story of The Silence of the Lambs, grotesque as it is, both serial killer’s Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill are successful in implementing the ‘nose to tail’...

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Art with Heart Banner. Photo by Breige Cobane

Art Reviews

Art with Heart’s banners take Salford’s story on tour

Salford’s community has created a set of banners celebrating the city, and they are now touring the places where the people live who created and inspired them. The Salford Voices Banner...

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Othello directed by Anthony Almeida: Review

“How easily the worlds we build together can be sustained, or quietly undone,” says director Anthony Almeida in the programme notes to his new production of Othello. This new co-production between...

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High Society: Review

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You may not be familiar with the 80’s genre known as ‘sophisti-pop’, though everyone remembers bands like The Blow Monkeys, Swing Out Sister, ABC, The Style Council, and Prefab Sprout. What united these apparently disparate artists was a winning...

Mythic Reinvention: 50 Years of Costume, Craft and Performance. Gypsy Directed by Jo Davies Designed by Gabrielle Dalton Photography Ros Kavanagh

Art Reviews To do & see

Mythic Reinvention: 50 years of Costume and Craft - Review

Amy Corringham

Jersey Boys UK tour. Photo credit: Mark Senior

Reviews Theatre

Jersey Boys 20th anniversary UK tour: Review

Carmel Thomason

To do & see

The Brown Suite (c) Viktor Erik Emanuel - Fundamentally Dance

People To do & see

Inside The Brown Suite: BlacBrik’s Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh on James Brown, friendship and the power of social spaces

Carmel Thomason

Six friends, one night in 1970s New York, and a soundtrack built from James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke — that’s the world at the centre of ‘The Brown Suite’, a full-length dance-theatre show from choreographic duo BlacBrik...

Christine Mackie in IRON Pic credit James Mackie

People To do & see

Christine and Lois Mackie on bringing IRON’s powerful mother-daughter story to life

Carmel Thomason

For the first time, real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will share the stage in Rona Munro’s intense psychological prison drama ‘IRON’. Touring the North West with Best Girl Productions, the play explores the...

Nya, TPE's Pets as Therapy Dog. Photo courtesy of Transpennine Express

Dog's Life People

The dog taking the stress out of train journeys

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

One of my dear friends is Chaplain, Reverend Mike Roberts, Rail Industry and British Transport Police Chaplain whom I have featured in QuaysLife in the past. Earlier in the year, Mike included me in the following email. “Hi Lorraine Meet Steve...

Dean Kirby's walking tour of Angel Meadow. Photo by Dave Porter

To do & see

Angel Meadow walking tour: Manchester’s forgotten slum where kids played football with skulls

Dave Porter

Think you know Manchester pretty well? It may be time to have a rethink. On hand to help adjust your frame of reference is former journalist Dean Kirby and his walking tours of Angel Meadow. Now a local historian and author, Dean’s tours poke around...

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High Society UK tour. Credit: Pamela Raith Photography

People Salford Quays To do & see

Helen George on why High Society is the tonic we need right now

Simon Button

Call the Midwife star Helen George talks Cole Porter, corsets and following Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord in High Society, which arrives at the Lowry, Salford, for two weeks from 22 September. Starring in a splashy new production of the classic Cole...

MBE Insignia Photo courtesy of Elaine Edwards

People

Bolton mum’s MBE journey: how Families and Babies grew from one woman’s struggle into a national charity

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

If someone had told Elaine Edwards back in 2004 — during the sleepless nights and uncertainty of new motherhood — that one day she would receive an MBE at Windsor Castle from HRH The Prince of Wales and see her story featured in a best-selling book...