Author: Chris Wallis
Review: The Global Playground, Theatre-Rites, Manchester International Festival, Great Northern
If Manchester International Festival (MIF) has any raison d’être, this has to be it.
Theatre Review: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Bolton Octagon
This is extremely silly.
Review: Inviolable – Joy as a form of resistance by Linnet Panashe Rubaya, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
It’s rare for me to visit a gallery and immediately think ‘oh, these are good’. More often, it’s ‘hmm’ or even ‘what?’.
Food Review: Habas Restaurant and Bar, Manchester
Times are hard for restaurants.
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, HOME, Manchester
To my everlasting chagrin, I never saw Peter Brook’s famous 1970 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in a white box with trapezes.
Online Theatre Review: Dream, The Audience of The Future Consortium
Last night I dreamt I went to watch live theatre again.
(Online) Theatre Review: Duckie, HOME, Manchester
These are difficult times. Rehearsals are problematic with social distancing and theatres are largely making it up as they go along.
Online Review: David Hoyle – A Grand Auction of My Life, HOME, Manchester
Theatres have adapted to COVID-19 restrictions in all sorts of ways.
Theatre Review: Alone in Berlin, York Theatre Royal
More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’
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