We preview Simon Bent’s witty adaptation of Howard Jacobson’s best-selling novel. “Why it was that every Jewish boy growing up in Manchester in the 1950s played table tennis with some...
The 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winner BIRD has its world premiere at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. “You know what Ava means? Bird. That’s what you are.” Manchester’s cultural scene is...
Hope Mill Theatre’s musical theatre debut transports us to the raw Deep South in Jason Robert Brown’s Parade. “Not much survives of the old hills of Georgia… the land where...
Don Warrington makes for a superb Lear in this subtly political portrayal of power and madness. Director Michael Buffong (artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company) leads the Royal Exchange in...
You know a play has really hit home when it receives a standing ovation, yet everyone leaves the theatre in silence. We review Wit. Margaret Edson’s 1997 Pulitzer Prize winning...
No man is an island – David Neilson and Chris Gascoyne are trapped in each other’s company for HOME’s new staging of Beckett’s darkly comic classic. Two men trapped in...
HOME’s staging of ‘the Scottish play’ promises to be a relentless yet exhilarating ride. HOME goes in for the heavyweight as it stages its first Shakespeare. Collaborating with the Young...
Royal Exchange stalwart Julie Hesmondhalgh launches the theatre’s 2016 season in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer prize winner. Manchester is home to a wealth of acting talent and some of the nation’s finest theatres...
HOME’s first in-house Christmas production is visually stunning, but is missing some of the novel’s original magic. Walter Meierjohann presents HOME’s first in-house Christmas production with a staging of Cornelia...
Matthew Xia’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical takes us deep into woods filled with fairy tales – to spectacular effect. Fairy tales and their revisions are more in vogue than...
Pomona twists together dark and disparate characters – and one of the most fascinating districts in Manchester. If we did stars, we’d give it five. Unforgiving strip lights flicker over...
The Oresteia at HOME has a fifty-strong Chorus and an acclaimed director behind it – so what did our reviewer make of the production? Ambitious is the word for HOME’s...
