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ReviewsDance @ THAT Festival
A youth festival would be quite poor without dance in it; after all, it is how many young people interact – in clubs, or in dance classes (or dare I sa... Read more »| 21 Oct 2013 -
ReviewsFrightFest 2013: Round-up 2 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
A round-up of the second day at Film4 FrightFest, where there were ghosties, zombies, beasties, time travel, guys making prime manure out of other guys... well, most things, really Read more »| 25 Aug 2013 -
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FrightFest 2013: Round-up 1 – Dispatches From The Dark Heart of Cinema
We lock ourselves in Empire Leicester Square for five days of death and dismemberment with some of the most fervent genre fans around. We escaped the baying throng long enough to deliver this, the first of our roundups... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
ReviewsTemper @ Three Minute Theatre, Manchester, 24 Jul
In an everyday drama that explores an all too common problem in the world – depression – Calum is trapped by his circumstances in a dingy flat in... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
ReviewsBump @ Three Minute Theatre, Manchester, 19 Jul
A church is the unlikely setting for an awkward reunion between two old school acquaintances in Bump, a new play from Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young ... Read more »| 30 Jul 2013 -
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The Masque of Anarchy @ Albert Hall, Manchester, 12 Jul
Maxine Peake entrances in a haunting presentation of Percy Bysshe Shelley's epic evocation of the Peterloo Massacre, The Masque of Anarchy Read more »| 30 Jul 2013
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THAT Festival @ The Macrobert
It's THAT festival again...THAT festival returns with some of the freshest performances in theatre. Read more »| 19 Oct 2012 -
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Crime Pays – Bloody Scotland Literary Festival
Last month at the inaugural Bloody Scotland literary festival, the cream of Scottish and international crime fiction writers descended on Stirling for a weekend of debates, signings and discussions. The Skinny was there to investigate... Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
ReviewsAppel D'Air @ The Traverse
Up Up and Away Read more »| 01 Mar 2012 -
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Mayfesto: The Irish Connection
Andy Arnold makes good on his promise to include work from across the Celtic nations through the return of Blue Raincoat Company and Fishamble's Forgotten. B... Read more »| 21 May 2011 -
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Mayfesto: It's a Dead Liberty and Everything Between Us
If we want to rescue politics from the political classes, go to the theatre Read more »| 21 May 2011 -
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Jerk @ Traverse
Puppets are violent things, as any British audience must surely be aware, having been raised on the slapstick of Punch and Judy and the domestic dramas of So... Read more »| 09 Feb 2011 -
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Bad Behaviour
Margaret Kirk heads underground to enjoy the experiment Read more »| 15 Aug 2009 -
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Latitude Festival 2009 - Sunday: Part II
I am lost in the woods. There are neon signs on the trees, above my head, proclaiming PURITY, TRANQUILITY, PEACE and TRUTH. There are faeries from the Royal ... Read more »| 20 Jul 2009 -
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Latitude Festival 2009 - Sunday: Part I
My campsite neighbor has painted his entire body blue, and has the expression of a man who has lived to regret the decision. Every morning as I walk down to ... Read more »| 19 Jul 2009