The Best of Both Worlds

Name: The Best of Both Worlds
Start: 2017-03-10T19:30:00
End: 2017-03-10T21:30:00
Location: Waterside

Creative Tourist Last Updated 25 January 2017

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The Best of Both Worlds

Waterside, Manchester

10 March 2017

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From £8.00

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Stealthily scrounging your tax pennies, your guilty scratch card spendings, Matthews & Burtin are funded escapees. She from the cutthroat, self-made, individualist American dream. He from lukewarm, protectionist France. By air and by sea, and both to the best of both worlds: the UK. Meeting in the middle, this show is an opportunity to take stock of what we value and how we go about valuing it.

Expect 1930s French street song and sleazy salesman rhetoric. Part cabaret, part lecture and part participatory experiment, The Best of Both Worlds: A Busker’s Opera is a good old-fashioned music hall for the cash-strapped proles and the accidental gentrifiers.

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