Author: Desmond Bullen
Theatre Review: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Octagon Theatre, University Of Bolton Stadium
Much like Dorothy, Bolton Octagon has been cast adrift from its moorings, although in a manner less dramatic than cyclonic updraft.
Read the full story..Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter
Appearances can be deceptive.
Read the full story..Book Review: These Northern Types, edited by Oli Bentley
Ambitious in the best sense of the word, These Northern Types is nothing less than a frequently discursive disquisition on the nature of Northernness as unapologetically contrary as the North itself.
Read the full story..Review – Martin Parr: Return to Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery
Martin Parr has the subtle knack of locating the delightful in the mundane, the unlikely in the familiar, inviting us to look twice where we might long since have failed to notice.
Read the full story..Review – A Celebration of Muriel Spark: Jackie Kay, Alan Taylor & Louise Welsh, Manchester Literature Festival
It’s cosily disorientating.
Read the full story..Review – Drawing The Modern: The Work of Gordon Hodkinson, Manchester Metropolitan University
Over the past decade, there’s been a parabolic swell of a very particular appreciation for modernist architecture, best exemplified by Manchester’s (and now Sheffield’s) Modernist Society.
Read the full story..Review – William Kentridge: Thick Time, The Whitworth, Manchester
Crossing the threshold into William Kentridge’s puzzle box of a touring exhibition, presently awaiting discovery at the edges of Manchester’s Whitworth, is a subtly, if pleasurably, disorientating experience, as though its terrain was the lens of a kaleidoscope at the moment a determined shift of the instrument brings the same fragments into a different focus.
Read the full story..“If the city had a voice, where would you hear it?” Northern Soul chats to author Ben Webster
Ben Webster finds himself in a curious position.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
The Northern Soul Awards 2018 took place at the stunning Manchester Cathedral on November 15. Here’s our list of winners, along with the Highly Commended and Special Mentions for each category. Congratulations!
https://awards.northernsoul.me.uk/the-2018-awards/the-2018-winners/
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