Reviews from Salford Quays
When Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company takes on Shakespeare and a classical ballet score by Sergei Prokoviev, we are primed to expect the unexpected. If Bourne is to be believed (and he’s a knight of the realm, so he ain’t gonna lie, is he?)...
I recently read an article on a contemporary dance forum which argued that narrative dance (that which seeks to tell a story through music and movement) has had its day, and that the future belongs entirely to abstract choreography. I was not...
After our rather mixed weather bag of a Bank Holiday, there’s sun all the way in Little Miss Sunshine from Tony Award-winners James Lapine and William Finn. Based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, this fun musical road trip introduces us...
LipService duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, are masters of the literary spoof. Since 1985 the Chorlton-based comics have produced no fewer than 20 stage shows, turning their unique surreal gaze on genres ranging from James Bond to Norwegian crime...
Being close to the same age as Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ I thought it was about time I joined the throngs of people who, since October 1952, when the play opened, have kept the best secret in theatre history. The origins of the play have a...
Flapper girls, jazz and the decadence of the 1920s in New York are the setting for the Northern Ballet’s sensational production of The Great Gatsby. We were invited to the most glamorous party in town, and were certainly not disappointed. The Great...
Battlefields, love, masked-balls and laughter – Shakespeare’s greatest romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing is creatively brought to life in this innovative and witty adaptation from Halifax touring company Northern Broadsides and Staffordshire’s...
In Woven, choreographer and dancer, Subhash Viman Gorania weaves an eclectic mix of dance styles in four contrasting pieces, playfully fusing Western and Eastern cultures, and traditional and modern moves. Morph Dance Company: Woven In the first...
In the past year Pamela DeMenthe has gone from nuclear scientist to publishing guru. Together with her polyamorous husband the couple has set up a publishing empire for her erotic fiction. Pamela likes to sell herself as the thinking woman’s E.L...
The stage version of The Girl on the Train follows the huge success of Paula Hawkins’ 2015 novel and the 2016 Hollywood movie featuring Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson. Oliver Farnworth and Samantha Womack Photo by Manuel Harlan It’s probably fair...
Martin Thomasson
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Carmel Thomason
Liz Ratcliffe
