âMothers tell their kids this is a special day ⊠on this day youâll become a woman. All you have to do is â be brave.â Cuttinâ It by Charlene James is that very rare event that takes a multitude of subjects and condenses them into meaningful and...
âTo die would be an awfully big adventure,â muses Peter Pan, uttering one of the most famous lines in J.M. Barrieâs story. âDonât talk daft!â comes the abrupt Lancastrian rebuke from Christinaâs Meehanâs mermaid princess. Quite right, too! Peter Pan...
The Slightly Annoying Elephant is the worst and funniest house guest rolled into one.He eats all the biscuits, hogs the TV, snores loudly, gets water all over the bathroom floor, breaks your bike and your bed, invites all his friends to join him and...
If I invited you to an evening out to watch 14 plays, what would you think? Marathon? Shut eye? Breakneck speed? Well, this production of âThe Manchester Project at Christmasâ, by the Manchester-based âMonkeywoodâ theatre company, is exactly that...
For a show listed among the greatest American Musicals, Gypsy certainly doesnât get staged nearly as often as it deserves. After an absence in the West End for 43 years it was famously revived in 2015 with Imelda Staunton as Mama Rose, a role thatâs...
The trouble with zeitgeist drama is it goes out of date rather quickly. Right now, David Hare is probably in the middle of an earnest drama about the fallout of Brexit â but is that what people want from a night at the theatre? Given the current...
In todayâs digital age societies are more connected than ever before. This hyper inter connectivity means that wifi, broadband, smartphones and tablets allow those with access to click, post, share and like at the drop of a hat. Everything is...
Bryony Kimmings is back – back with a vengeance. On stage, sheâs dressed in an orange ASOS sequin dress and a blonde wig â Dolly Parton would be jealous. This is a flashback. Our protagonist fills us in on events since she last trod the boards...
The Shadow is Company Chameleonâs first full-length work to be produced from its new Openshaw-based dance studio. And there was a warm reception at Home for the premiere, its first in the city for more than a decade. The Shadow presented by Company...
Dementia, loneliness and social isolation are huge problems affecting todayâs society, and yet they arenât often the focus in theatre, dance and other art forms. So itâs refreshing to see Lumo Company address these issues in their contemporary...
Moses Kabunga
Martin Thomasson
Carmel Thomason
Steve Timms
Georgina Wells