Dear England, the hit Olivier Award-winning play by James Graham, comes to Lowry, Salford direct from a 10-week run at the National Theatre in London. After scooping the award for Best New Play In 2024 the production has been updated following last...
Combining art forms to create something beyond traditional description has become a hallmark of Factory. Hence why Hamlet Hail to the Thief is advertised not as a play or musical, but as ‘a live experience, fusing theatre, music and movement’. In...
All the hype over the past few weeks is true – A Knight’s Tale is a firework of a show. And I mean literally at points. Figuratively it zings, glitters and explodes. Faux leathering their way through one jukebox banger after the other, the...
Arthur Miller was originally going to call Death of a Salesman ‘The Inside of His Head’, and it’s easy to see why in this lucid and powerful production of the postwar American classic. Willy Loman is a man in disintegration and assailed from voices...
Gizza Job. Welcome to the gig economy. The game may have changed but the rules of a capitalist society remain the same: for the powerful to thrive, the working class must be oppressed. Zero hours contracts usually involve working for companies who...
St George’s day will be celebrated at the end of the April but how did England’s Patron Saint manage to have a castle named after him in Portugal? As our family’s connection to Portugal has grown, so has our fascination with the country’s rich...
It’s been a long time coming. Ever since Yosser Hughes strode onto the screen in 1982 and into television drama history, with his brilliant, heartbreaking catchphrase “Gizza job”, people have been urging Alan Bleasdale to bring Boys from the...
There’s nothing like a bit of sun to lift the spirits. So, as Spring arrives, it feels there couldn’t be a better time for Mary Poppins to fly into Manchester and blow away any last wisps of winter cobwebs. This stage musical, from Cameron...
It is 1997. A train leaves Scotland bound for London. On board, John Josana, a journalist, is reading a book about Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for many years). The train is crowded. A tall man with a backpack takes the seat...
Abigail’s Party was first staged as a play in 1977, and then later screened on television to great acclaim. The play was as much of its time as the Cinzano adverts with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, and like the ad has since filtered down into...
Carmel Thomason
Cathy Crabb
Dave Porter
Steve Timms
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Sarah Hemming
Martin Thomasson