Claire Gaydonâs See Through was voted by Time Out as one of the top 10 weirdest shows at Edinburgh Fringe. The one-woman show examines identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. Quays Life meets Claire ahead of her performance...
We are giving away two tickets to see Claire Gaydonâs weird and wonderful one-woman show, See Through that takes a humourous look at identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. A must for YouTubers, their followers and...
Manchester Jewish Museum in Cheetham Hill is housed in what was the cityâs oldest synagogue, a Grade II listed building built by Jewish textile merchants in 1874. To return the architecture to its original splendour the museum is closed for 18...
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 ÄvolvĆ 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 hasnât mastered. While the globe now feels a much smaller place, space is still the âouterâ world the vast majority of us will never get to visit. But...
Billed as a ‘comedy adventure’, I imagined âThe Three Musketeersâ, 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 Beteâs...
Manchesterâs 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 Harrellâs new work, Maggie the Cat, as a purposeful critique of the politics of race, gender and class, inspired by (note: âinspired byâ not âbased uponâ) Tennessee Williamsâs 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 â lunch and her IBS â 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 islandâs geothermal charms sheâs 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: âLanzarote â...
Carmel Thomason
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Martin Thomasson
Liz Ratcliffe