Sex, Sorcery, and Suckers⊠The tagline promises exactly what âUnfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the sea witchâ delivers. The production offers crude jokes, amateur charm, and a proper parody that pokes fun at all those clichĂ©s in your typical...
In 1991, the artist, Cornelia Parker enlisted the help of the British army to blow up a garden shed. She and her team then collected the scorched and twisted fragments of the shed and its contents (purposefully curated to echo the horticultural and...
In the Convent of the Three Fâs, Mother Superior (Katy Owen) runs a tight ship of fun activities and a safe, if uneasy space. She tells a tail of Bluebeard (Tristan Sturrock), a dark and alluring magician who holds terrible secrets. Three characters...
Reunions rarely work, whether school reunions, band reunions or â this case â resurrection of a much-loved comedy classic. For many people the iconic series Drop the Dead Donkey was synonymous with associated with alternative programming Channel 4...
âIt’s such a great healing tonic for myself when I do these gigs,â Cleveland tells me, âI just find that with VocalSuite thereâs a deeper kind of upliftment I get from doing it. I feel like Iâm renewed again. “I’m sharing my gift...
‘American Star’ is a great example of how a beautifully shot movie, with grounded acting and superb cinematography, can also suffer from minimalist substance and pacing issues. Following aged hitman Wilson (Ian McShane), as he awaits his...
Amina Hussain is Principal Flute Player with Manchester Camerata and the orchestraâs 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...
Ellen Kent has been touring operas for donkeyâs years (32 years, to be precise), and Iâve been watching them throughout that time. There are certain things you can bank on with this company. If you start out fearing opera is pretentious, an Ellen...
Louisa May Alcottâs Little Women was the first âclassic bookâ gifted to me at a Christmas long ago. It was therefore, with slight trepidation that I entered Theatre One at HOME Manchester last evening. I was pleased when film-maker Greta Gerwig...
With the Emma Rice adaptation of Noel Cowardâs Brief Encounter this Christmas, the Royal Exchange has become an oaken art deco music box, playing songs of love’s young dream, heartbreak, hope and the sass and sadness of a brief and beautiful...
Olivia Howlett
Martin Thomasson
Cathy Crabb
Dave Porter
Jordon Francis
Reece Donlan
Carmel Thomason
Lorraine Worsley-Carter