With the festival of Hallowe’en fast approaching what better way to spend the weekend before the 31 October than in the grisly comfort of not one but two supernatural horror stories. The Nunkie Theatre Company’s ‘M R James Project’ brings us ‘Dead...
This Halloween HOME and Film4 are teaming up again for the fourth annual FilmFear season – bringing six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests to Manchester. The Lighthouse A special preview of The Lighthouse, director...
Less of a drama and more an exercise in pop culture storytelling, Rick Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran is, in the words of writer/performer Javaad Alipoor, partly about ‘rich people acting like dicks.’ But these aren’t ordinary rich...
Nuclear Future is an austere call to arms. It takes as its base the insecurities of its lead (and only) actor Astrid, played adroitly by Leda Douglas. She stands solitary on stage flanked by two white panels exploding towards the audience, as if...
In a 1994 article entitled, “Discussing the Undiscussable”, New Yorker critic, Arlene Croce, explained her refusal to review a piece by choreographer, Bill T. Jones by accusing him of presenting ‘victim art’. Jones’s show, Still/Here, employed...
If Pam Adams, author of best-selling children’s book ‘There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly’, was still alive, she would have been 100-years-old this year. Adams lived to be a real old lady, aged 91, and her stories have proved timeless. Based...
South African choreographer Dada Masilo’s Giselle brings the ballet into the 21st century. The Soweto-born choreographer and dancer has taken the classic favourite and thoroughly shaken it up so audiences can anticipate the unexpected. The original...
Director William Friedkin is often portrayed as an erratic genius. He’s made some amazing films (The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA) and some outright turkeys (Jade, The Guardian). But the film which most people associate with his name is...
South African choreographer and dancer, Dada Masilo brings her unique interpretation of Giselle to the Lowry as part of a UK tour organised by Dance Consortium, a group committed to showcasing the best international dance from across the globe. Dada...
Hansel and Gretel is the well-known classic fairy tale of two children who get lost in a wood and take refuge in a cottage where all is not quite as it first appears. Here, kids are still centre stage in the narrative. But for anyone expecting to...
Moses Kabunga
Carmel Thomason
Steve Timms
Martin Thomasson
Diane Parkes
Gemma Finkill