Carmel ThomasonChoreographer, Emanuel Gat originally created Works two years ago as a collaboration between his company, Emanuel Gat Dance and Le Ballet de Lyon. In this version performed at The Lowry, as part of Re:generations 2019 (an international forum...
‘What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine’ (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1). While we may be familiar with many lines from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure most of us are less familiar with the play. Quays Life talks to RSC Artistic Director...
Director Justin Audibert reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, in a new production for the RSC where the women hold the power. He talks to Quays Life about playing with conventions to turn gender on its head. RSC The Taming of...
Moses KabungaHe’s dressed from head to toe in black Javier Jarquin pounces on stage as the eponymous Card Ninja. To his right is a table stacked with sealed packs of normal sized playing cards. Is this a magic show? A stand-up routine? Or a children’s...
Playwright Daniel Kanaber talks to Carmel Thomason about his new play Under Three Moons, produced by Manchester Theatre Company Box of Tricks and written after a terrifyingly macho stag-do: Without giving away any spoilers, what is the story of...
Circus duo, Tamsin Shasha and Maisy Taylor are another of the Lowry’s Week53 Festival successes. Their show ‘Everything I See I Swallow’, which debuted at last year’s festival, went on to win a Fringe First award at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. Quays...
In ‘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...
Early Doors, the stage show of the BBC2 pub sitcom, returns to the Lowry for a limited run, and even the hottest day of the year can’t keep its punters away. The theatre is packed to the top, and it’s no surprise given the size of the Arena venues...
Martin ThomassonWhen 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...