Circa – Humans is the brain child of Yaron Lifschitz. Creator. Artistic Director. Empresario. A native of Australia, this is his Salford helping of jaw-dropping, mind-numbing, acrobatic excellence. Tonight’s offering sees his troupe of skilled...
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He’s dressed from head to toe in black Javier Jarquin pounces on stage as the eponymous Card Ninja. To his right is a table stacked with sealed packs of normal sized playing cards. Is this a magic show? A stand-up routine? Or a children’s...
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The first thing that strikes you about this National Theatre of Scotland production is Simon Kenny’s set, the centrepiece a 30-foot high wooden picture frame, with the top corner a wild, untreated tree branch. Initially, this appears to be something...
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is definitely flavour of the month. She’s an award winner. She has writing credits on the fantastically successful Killing Eve. Fleabag is now a hit BBC TV show in its own right and she’s co-written the next James Bond film, No...
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After a run out at the Edinburgh Festival, a reworked version of ‘Everything I See I Swallow’ has come home to the Lowry, its commissioning theatre. Written and performed by Tamsin Shasha and Maisy Taylor (with assistance in the devising from Helen...
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How would you survive in prison? ‘The Jumper Factory’ provides the audience with insights into that very question. This production, written by Luke Barnes, was created in collaboration with eight inmates from HMP Wandsworth. During this...
Circus fans are in for a treat this autumn as Circus 1903 arrives at The Lowry with some of the most spectacular acts from around the world. The show promises to transport audiences back to the turn-of-the-century, shortly after the time of Greatest...
Mrs Lowry and Son tells the story of Salford artist, L.S. Lowry’s relationship with his controlling mother, Elizabeth. Carmel Thomason meets its stars, Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave. In the Lowry galleries a short film, made in 1957, runs on a...
TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is a passionate advocate of the benefits of getting out and about in the great outdoors. Living with autism he understands sometimes there can be barriers to accessibility that aren’t always obvious...
Playwright Daniel Kanaber talks to Carmel Thomason about his new play Under Three Moons, produced by Manchester Theatre Company Box of Tricks and written after a terrifyingly macho stag-do: Without giving away any spoilers, what is the story of...
As someone who is about to enter her 30s, Emily Atack knows only too well about the contemporary pressures and expectations on those in their 20s. She describes her live tour of Talk Thirty To Me as “a stand-up show for 20-somethings who are trying...
Choreographer Bo Jackson talks to Quays Life about her new dance fusion theatre venture, the Z Bo Jackson Company, ahead of its gala night launch at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. Can you tell us more about Z Bo Jackson and where the idea came from...
Moses Kabunga
Steve Timms
Martin Thomasson
Liz Ratcliffe
Carmel Thomason
Brian Donaldson
