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MusicKelburn Garden Party 2018: Review
From boats on hillsides to art installations and loads of great music paired with probably too much sun, The Skinny, once again, have a bloody great time at Kelburn Garden Party Read more »| 12 Jul 2018 -
ReviewsPaul Mason at Manchester Literature Festival
Journalist and author of PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Paul Mason advocates the emergence of a new, sharing economy at an event as part of Manchester Literature Festival Read more »| 09 Nov 2015 -
ReviewsIn My Bed @ 24:7 Festival
In My Bed’s structure is dazzling. Set in and around the bed belonging to Sarah (Olivia Sweeney), we flash backwards and forwards through a relationshi... Read more »| 11 Aug 2014 -
ReviewsAnonymity @ 24:7 Festival
Anonymity is the murky tale of two gas fitters trapped in a dingy basement, undertaking a task as dark and foreboding as the cellar itself. As the play progr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
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The Box of Tricks @ 24:7 Festival
When they were younger, Mark and Mike were as close as any brothers could be. But when Mark is killed in an accident, how did the pair become so estranged fr... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
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To the Dam @ 24:7 Festival
We meet Lisa stretched out on a warm rock as she stares across “England’s highest beach”. She’s not by the seaside, however. This is ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014
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Afterglow @ 24:7 Festival
All you need is love, The Beatles told us. But unfortunately sometimes love isn’t enough, as the characters find out in Afterglow, a new play from writ... Read more »| 08 Aug 2014 -
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Stuff @ 24:7 Festival, 18-24 Jul
Stuff, from writer Mick Cooper, starts with a seemingly straightforward premise: affluent bachelor Xav (Karl Greenwood) is dying of a brain tumour and has co... Read more »| 25 Jul 2014 -
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Mayfesto: HEART @ The Tron
ZENDEH's latest production, HEART tries to tackle two themes at the same time: the love triangle between an Iranian woman, a Syrian man and an English man, and the revolution in Iran of the 1950s Read more »| 02 Jun 2014 -
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Behaviour Festival: Sam Halmarack and the Miserablites @ The Arches
Having lit up crowds from Edinburgh’s fringe to Australia, Sam Halmarack brings his pop spectacular back to Scotland. There’s only one problem, h... Read more »| 23 Apr 2014 -
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Behaviour Festival: In May @ Tramway
Performed by the Ligeti Quartet with Samuel Rice, Fredrik Holm at the piano, and sung by Leentje Van de Cruys, In May follows a dying man's journey over the last few months of his life Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Behaviour Festival: Hate Radio @ The Arches
The intelligently constructed play is framed on either side - at the start and end - by video testimonies of survivors. While the videos are short, they seem to counter-balance the main body of the live part of the show Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Behaviour Festival Launch: Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Sister @ The Arches
Behaviour Festival 2014 launches with Bryony Kimmings' Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel and Rosana and Amy Cade's Sister Read more »| 25 Mar 2014 -
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Bestiaires @ Traverse
An attempt to describe Dudapaiva's Bestiaires to anyone who hasn't seen it will inevitably fall short of the scale, skill, and thought behind this perfo... Read more »| 12 Feb 2014 -
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Away From Home @ The Lowry, Salford, 30 Jan
Kudos to any actor who begins a play walking on stage stark naked with nothing but a hastily grabbed towel. Such is the entrance of solo performer Rob Ward (... Read more »| 10 Feb 2014