Reviews from Salford Quays
The tale may be as old as time, but this brand-new production of Disneyâs Beauty and the Beast is ever a surprise. Imagine an enchanted castle where youâre served dinner by dancing plates, entertained by a quick-fire candlestick, warmed by a mumsy...
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I love a good show celebrating women, especially when theyâre so rarely done. Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World is a new musical directed by Amy Hodge and based on the picture book by Kate Pankhurst (who is, in fact, a very distant...
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Do you hear the people sing? Yes, I do. And I hear them cry â there are even nose-blowing sobs to the left of me. I also hear the roar of approval with thunderous applause that sees the whole auditorium on its feet as soon the stage goes black. This...
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It was a very smart move of Tim Firth to adapt his 1998 TV comedy, Nevilleâs Island, for the stage in 2013. It has rarely – if ever – been out of production since. It looks like being another smart move for him to realise (or be...
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Old Etonian, Eric Blair – better known to us as George Orwell – walked-the-walk rather more determinedly than most bourgeois left-leaning artists and intellectuals. His early works of social criticism (Down and Out in Paris and London...
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âWhere did all the happy endings go? Where can all the good times be?â asks Eglantine Price. Is there an adult in the audience who isnât thinking the same? As the song goes, many of us are at âThe Age of Not Believingâ but Disney always has the...
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Northern Broadsidesâ As You Like It is the first production Iâve seen staged in the round at The Lowryâs Quays Theatre, and itâs a layout that certainly suits both venue and play. It feels more novel and intimate than a proscenium arch staging...
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We take our seats for the second act of The Hound of the Baskervilles (hereafter ⊠Hound) and Jake Ferretti, playing Holmes (alongside a mélange of other characters) berates the audience for a Tweet he claims to have seen during the interval, from...
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Comedy is all about timing and it feels like ‘The Play What I Wrote’ has chosen the perfect moment to land at The Lowry. Not only are we waving goodbye to January â statistically the most depressing month â but for the first time it...
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Thereâs a magic in childrenâs classics that canât be explained by the story alone. The wise, Professor Kirk reminds us of this towards the end of The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe on stage when he talks about a certain look we recognise in those...
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Carmel Thomason
Niamh Melody
Martin Thomasson
Georgina Wells
Simon A. Morrison
