Carmel ThomasonIn ‘Who Cares’, writer and director Matt Woodhead shares the inspirational stories of young cares in Salford. What is the story of Who Cares? Matt: ‘Who Cares’ is a verbatim play adapted from over 200 hours of interviews with young...
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, HOME Manchester is hosting a one-off, pay what you can, screening of the 2018 film, Peterloo followed by a Q&A with director, Mike Leigh. PETERLOO featuring Rory Kinnear as Henry Hunt...
Gemma FinkillThe true test of a children’s show is the reaction of the little ones watching and from start to finish my four-year-old daughter was mesmerised by We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Were Going on a Bear Hunt Live. Credit: Lesley Cook The stage-version is...
Circus fans are in for a treat this autumn as Circus 1903 arrives at The Lowry with some of the most spectacular acts from around the world. The show promises to transport audiences back to the turn-of-the-century, shortly after the time of Greatest...
Paul ThomasonThe Jules Verne classic novel, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ is so well known that it’s only after reading the title of this new show multiple times you eventually realise something isn’t quite as expected. The addition of what appears at first...
Few French films have truly captured the imagination of a mainstream British audience on the scale Amélie did in 2001. The critics loved it too, showering it with 9 BAFTA nominations and awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Production Design...
Martin ThomassonIt’s hard to create new work – sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s brave for theatres to commission new work – sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s hard to review a piece written/devised to honour a dear friend...
The struggle of the Luddites against mechanisation fuelling the Industrial Revolution is often used to teach us, change is inevitable and resistance to it is futile. Both statements have their truths. But is there another truth we still often...
Moses KabungaGrowing up in the 1980’s I remember the arrival and subsequent demise of much of the ‘must have’ technology that tantalised us all back then. So, I hotly anticipated FaxFiction, a performance of new short stories by six writers, incorporating now...
It’s 10 years since National Theatre Live launched with a satellite link from National’s Lyttelton Theatre to broadcast a production of Phèdre with Helen Mirren to 70 cinemas in the UK and 200 internationally. A play on the big screen...