Interviews
āIts kind of like a TED talk with people flying around and doing fire,ā laughs Marisa Carnesky describing SHOWWOMEN, her new performance work which comes to The Lowry this weekend. āIt’s dynamic, it takes you on a journey, we make you laugh...
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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...
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āIt’s such a great healing tonic for myself when I do these gigs,ā Cleveland tells me, āI just find that with VocalSuite thereās a deeper kind of upliftment I get from doing it. I feel like Iām renewed again. “I’m sharing my gift...
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Amina Hussain is Principal Flute Player with Manchester Camerata and the orchestraās newly appointed resident Music Therapist. Last week she won an award at the Association of British Orchestras for demonstrating the unique power of music to improve...
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Following its 2020 online festive show, Humbug and 2021 Christmas show, Not So Ugly Sisters, Wrongsemble Theatre Company return to Waterside, Sale with a musical re-imagining of Snow Queen. Writer and director, Elvi Piper tells us about staging a...
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It was a great loss for the people of Oldham and beyond, when Billingtonās Dance Studio, at 3 Ascroft Street, held its last waltz in February 2016. The building , over a century old started its life hosting āThe Aerated Water Companyā and its...
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Shalisha James-Davis, who plays Nurse Paige Allcott in BBC 1 drama, Casualty, is making her Royal Exchange stage debut in a fiery retelling of Shakespeareās tragic love story. She talks to Quays Life about what it’s like to recreate one of the...
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Drag fans are in for a ball this Christmas at Contact with not one but two Manchester drag queens taking centre stage in this year’s pantomime. But will there be room for Cinderella herself in all this fabulousness? Carmel Thomason meets Lady...
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Comedian Harry Hill and composer Steve Brown have joined forces to create a new musical from Britain’s Britpop era. Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] arrives at The Lowry in October. So, what can we expect? Harry: “Weāve tried to make it...
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In 2019, just before we were in the grips of Covid Pandemic, I alighted my train at Platform 2 in Manchester Oxford Road station, and immediately noticed some wonderful art work on the wall beyond the tracks in front of me. I began my research to...
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Jordon Francis
Carmel Thomason
Lorraine Worsley-Carter