Articles relating to: Hope Mill Theatre
Theatre Review: Spring Awakening, Hope Mill, Manchester
“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was the man goes on top, the woman goes on the bottom. I bought bunk beds.” – Joan Rivers
Read the full story..Review: The Replacement Child, Hope Mill, Manchester
Visceral yet moving, The Replacement Child is a production that – literally in certain places – screams authenticity.
Read the full story..Review: The ToyBoy Diaries, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Despite the team behind Hope Mill winning twice at last year’s Northern Soul Awards (Small Theatre of the Year and Fringe Production of the Year), I’d still not visited this Manchester theatre. It was time to put that right.
Read the full story..Review: BE//LONGING, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Manchester Theatre Award-winning collective Take Back Theatre, set up by actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, writer Rebekah (Becx) Harrison and visual artist Grant Archer in October 2015 as “an artistic response to the politics of austerity” has proved to be an astonishing Northern powerhouse of political theatre in its two years of life.
Read the full story..Review: Edward And Eliza and the Smashing of the Van, Hope Mill Theatre
Written by Rochdale-born Eileen Murphy to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the real events around the public hanging of the so-called ‘Manchester Martyrs’, this touring play from a new Rochdale-based company manages with surprising success to humanise what Murphy rightly characterises as “a huge, tragic and complicated event” whereby the struggle for Irish independence from the British Empire was played out in an English city, with consequences both national and international.
Read the full story..Review: PIPPIN The Musical, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
On the face of it, it’s difficult to see why PIPPIN The Musical is not better known on this side of the Pond given it boasts music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, whose stage hits include Godspell and Wicked as well as a latter-day stint as a composer on such Disney animations as Pocahontas.
Read the full story..Win tickets to The Ugliest Woman in the World/All I Want is One Night at Hope Mill Theatre
Northern Soul has teamed up with the Watershed Productions to offer readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to not one, but two brilliant plays showing at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre at the beginning of July.
Read the full story..Review: The Angel of the House, Hope Mill Theatre, Ancoats, Manchester
The Angel in the House is a popular Victorian poem – a terrible set of verse – extolling the virtues of the submissive woman who exists solely to cater for her husband’s needs.
Read the full story..Win tickets to Angel of the House, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
WIN TICKETS TO ANGEL OF THE HOUSE AT HOPE MILL THEATRE, MANCHESTER
Read the full story..Life is a cabaret. Or is it? Cabaret Voltaire, Hope Mill Theatre Café, Manchester
Cabaret Voltaire 101 is a new group celebrating Dadaism more than 100 years after its inception.
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