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SWEAT, Pooky Quesnel (Tracey), Jonathan Kerrigan (Stan), Lewis Gribben (Jason), Kate Kennedy (Jessie), Abdul Sessay (Chris) - Photo Helen Murray

Reviews Theatre

Sweat at The Royal Exchange Theatre: Review

It has been a particular gripe of mine that middle class writers often present the poor as a subhuman genus, pouring neat vodka on their morning cornflakes. Determinedly bucking this trend, we now...

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Manchester Composer Carmel Smickersgill on her Radical New Work

Carmel Smickersgill is a Manchester based composer whose recent work includes Enter Vivian, part of the Philip Glass Referactions EP; and Birthday Card for a Stranger, a joint commission to mark the...

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Georgia Lennon as Paula Pokrifki & Luke Baker as Zack Mayo in An Officer and a Gentleman, credit Marc Brenner

Reviews Theatre

An Officer and a Gentleman the Musical: Review

We can say it now – anything set in the 80’s has become a period piece and The Curve’s production of An Officer and a Gentleman, the Musical, is as 80’s as legwarmers in shoulder pads. Douglas...

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SIX UK Tour 2023 Pamela Raith Photography

Salford Quays To do & see

SIX the Musical inspires major new exhibition

‘What kind of Queen are you?’ That’s the question posed by a new exhibition based on the hit musical, SIX, which opens at The Lowry this autumn. In SIX each of Henry VIII’s wives are turned into a...

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Rambert in Ben Duke's Death Trap (Goat) photography by Camilla Greenwell

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Dance Reviews

Rambert Dance Death Trap: Review

Carmel ThomasonAdd comment

The 2020s is blazing a trend for all things meta. So, it’s not surprising to find Rambert leading the charge for dance by staging a meta dance comedy. But what on earth does it mean? Death Trap is a new double-bill from Ben Duke, which links two of...

Cluedo 2. Play performed at Richmond Theatre,London, UK

Reviews Theatre

Cluedo 2: Theatre Review

Steve Timms

Solem Quartet and Alice Zawadzki at The White Hotel. Left to Right: Amy, William, Stephen, Stephanie. Image by Reece Donlan.

Music Reviews

Solem Quartet and Alice Zawadzki: Review

Reece Donlan

To do & see

Games Reviews

Taskmaster – The Board Game: Review

Paul Thomason

Paul Thomason spends a creative, fun and competitive afternoon playing Taskmaster which brings all the silliness of the TV show to your front room. It must have been the ultimate task for board game producers, Ginger Fox but somehow they’ve...

To do & see Travel

The only swing bridge aqueduct in the world

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

Lorraine Worsley-Carter stumbles upon a unique wonder of the canal age in Salford After taking a short cut to our favourite Trafford DIY store, our sat-nav suggested a route which took us over an old bridge which we had not traversed before...

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Discovering Fleetwood’s heritage with a Fisherman’s Friend

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

One day in June, taking advantage of the ease of lockdown, we decided to have a day out in Thornton Cleveleys. We took a wrong turn and found we were actually heading for Fleetwood and so decided to visit. I would expect that most Northerners...

Lifestyle Salford Quays To do & see

Top tips for novice runners at Salford Quays

Hayley Smith

Hayley Smith gives her top tips for novice runners and finds Salford Quays a wonderful place to start. I am not a natural born runner. In fact, I didn’t believe I was a natural born exerciser for many years (thank you, school PE lessons) – then, out...

People

Marisa Carnesky Show women Photo Credit Sarah Hickson

People Salford Quays To do & see

“It’s really important that women with physicality are still out there being physical in midlife” – Marisa Carnesky

Jordon Francis

“Its kind of like a TED talk with people flying around and doing fire,” laughs Marisa Carnesky describing SHOWWOMEN, her new performance work which comes to The Lowry this weekend. “It’s dynamic, it takes you on a journey, we make you laugh...

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Composer James Weatherly-Buss on his new work and finding his place as a musician

Carmel Thomason

RNCM Original Voices Festival celebrates new perspectives on music that has filled the concert hall for centuries alongside new orchestral works. Composer James Weatherly-Buss, one of Manchester Camerata 360 Ruth Sutton Fellows for 2023/24, is...