Phoebe Waller-Bridge is definitely flavour of the month. Sheās an award winner. She has writing credits on the fantastically successful Killing Eve. Fleabag is now a hit BBC TV show in its own right and sheās co-written the next James Bond film, No...
At the opening of his Mythos trilogy, Stephen Fry welcomes the audience and informs us that what we are about to watch is not a play, itās not a show, itās something much older ā itās the ancient art of storytelling. Of course, in 2019 there are a...
Itās hard to create new work – sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnāt. Itās brave for theatres to commission new work – sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesnāt. Itās 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...
I feel lucky to have been at the debut performance of Wolf Hours, Minute Taker, aka Manchester-based Ben McGarvey, superb soundtrack to a series of short-film clips, made by a variety of film makers. The show is designed to give a depiction of the...
Manchesterās 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...
Life is a Dream is a departure from the Rambertās usual touring programme of three pieces, often including at the Lowry a premiered work. This season the contemporary dance company brings its first full-length narrative dance work in almost 40 years...