Reviews
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FestivalsMIF15: Neck of the Woods @ HOME, Manchester
Prior to the performance of Neck of the Woods, an announcement is made that anyone uncomfortable with complete darkness should swiftly leave the auditorium. ... Read more »| 13 Jul 2015 -
ReviewsTorn @ Tron Theatre, Glasgow
Faux Theatre's Torn has created a unique and imaginative way of portraying the intricacies of heartbreak. The 50-minute performance, which is entir... Read more »| 10 Jul 2015 -
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The Driver's Seat @ Lyceum Theatre
Is Lise a victim? This question haunts The Driver's Seat, with Laurie Sansom’s superb rendering of the balance between power and vulnerability which dr... Read more »| 09 Jul 2015 -
FestivalsMIF15: The Skriker @ Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
The Skriker opens with a verbal assault. In some nightmarish netherworld, the title character, played by a pixie-haired, wild-eyed Maxine Peake, delivers a b... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
FestivalsMIF15: Tree of Codes @ Opera House, Manchester
Tree of Codes does what Manchester International Festival does best: bring together several interesting artists and set them loose on an unusual project, in ... Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
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MIF15: wonder.land @ Palace Theatre, Manchester
It is notoriously difficult to represent the virtual world in physical art. A new musical scored by Damon Albarn and premiering at Manchester International F... Read more »| 03 Jul 2015
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The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
Adapting one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous works was never going to be an easy task, but Morna Pearson’s reimagining of his classic sto... Read more »| 11 May 2015 -
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Whisky Galore @ Sunart Centre
Iain Finlay Macleod’s new Gaelic adaption of Compton MacKenzie’s Whisky Galore (with English surtitles) captures the spirit of storytel... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
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BEHAVIOUR 2015: Lippy and O is for Hoolet
Dead Centre’s Lippy is a play in three acts. The first is humorous and wrong-foots the audience, and while the second and third acts are much dark... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
If art, by its very nature, is political, then Mark Thomson’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 parable for the ages, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, ... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
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The Fair Intellectual Club
The Fair Intellectual Club, directed for Stellar Quines by Marilyn Imrie, is a force of strong females, both in and out of the production. The first play pen... Read more »| 07 Apr 2015 -
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Autumn Portaits
Autumn Portraits begins as one might expect, with puppeteer Eric Bass donning a mask and silently bending the will and the actions of one of his many, many p... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
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Dance of The Magnetic Ballerina @ Traverse
From an achromatic gloom, the figure of Andrea Miltnerova materialises, on a contained platform adrift in the middle of the enormous Traverse One stage. Evok... Read more »| 06 Mar 2015 -
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Trouble in Tahiti @ RNCM Studio Theatre
More than 50 years on, Berstein’s Broadway-inspired, one-act opera is still refreshingly direct. In this production at the Royal Northern College of Mu... Read more »| 16 Feb 2015 -
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Educating Rita @ Liverpool Playhouse
To take an iconic, Liverpool-based play – 35 years on from its original staging – and produce it in its home city, while making it as fresh, invi... Read more »| 16 Feb 2015