Yara Boustany is a talented young artist from Beirut whose performance crosses boundaries of dance, physical theatre, circus and visual arts. She arrives at The Lowry with Ēvolvō as part of the Shubbak festival, which celebrates Arab culture by...
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, space travel is still the final frontier technology hasn’t mastered. While the globe now feels a much smaller place, space is still the ‘outer’ world the vast majority of us will never get to visit. But...
Billed as a ‘comedy adventure’, I imagined ‘The Three Musketeers’, to be a side-splitting, sword-fighting romp through the French countryside with three, soon to be four, Musketeers in velvet costumes and plumed hats. Le Navet Bete’s...
Manchester’s claim to Nico comes towards the end of her short life, when during the 1980s she made the city her home. Like her earlier, almost nomadic existence, Nico’s time in the city was a chaotic one of sofa-surfing and heroin addiction...
You can approach Trajal Harrell’s new work, Maggie the Cat, as a purposeful critique of the politics of race, gender and class, inspired by (note: ‘inspired by’ not ‘based upon’) Tennessee Williams’s classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; or you can go in...
Bryony Buckle is an average, slightly nerdy girl, working in an office, executing boring administration, her mind flitting between her stomach – lunch and her IBS – and her hungering for Orson Bloom from IT. Following a heady mix of a lightning-bolt...
Liz Ratcliffe takes her first trip to Lanzarote. Won over by the island’s geothermal charms she’s already thinking of going back. I wasn’t sure what sort of week I was going to spend in Lanzarote. I had heard the sayings: ‘Lanzarote –...
Minute Taker – Manchester-based and acclaimed alternative singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Ben McGarvey – returns to Trafford’s 10-day arts-festival Refract with the world premiere of his new audio-visual show, Wolf Hours. He...
One time Spanish resident, Lorraine Worsley-Carter spends a weekend exploring Bilbao. Northern Spain has been on our exploration list for a while, so a couple of days in Bilbao seemed a good place to start. Having lived in south east Spain and...
“Count the clouds and name them…” a voice booms out from a video installation conceived by Yoko Ono. “Listen to the sound of the earth moving”. This is Manchester and the clouds and the number of them draw an unexpected response – more of which...