‘poignant and celebratory’ Liberation, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels...
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Review: Cotton Panic! at Manchester International Festival
Upper Campfield Market in Manchester’s Castlefield is a great space. Built in 1882, it was a market hall for many years but is now a huge empty shell used occasionally for concerts and exhibitions. Manchester International...
Read MoreReview: Fatherland, Royal Exchange, Manchester International Festival
In school, I was taught that the most convincing arguments address their own pitfalls before someone else raises them. The writers of Fatherland must have had a similar lesson somewhere between the drawing board and the curtain...
Read MoreReview: What If Women Ruled The World? Manchester International Festival
I’m struggling to put my thoughts about Israeli artist Yael Bartana’s ground-breaking film and performance project What If Women Ruled the World? into coherent sentences. But a good sign of a thought-provoking piece is...
Read MoreWhat is the City but the People? Manchester International Festival 2017
Google maps does not recognise Mayfield. According to the internet, the abandoned railway depot near Piccadilly station doesn’t exist. As we congregate on a gravel path, surrounded by the kind of fence that hems in building...
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