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Review: JB Shorts 13
Now in its 13th season, JB Shorts is firmly established as a cornerstone of Manchester’s independent theatre scene.
Read the full story..Review: The Dumb Waiter, Re:play Festival, Manchester
Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter is not what you’d call a light play. As the curtain drops, you are left in stunned silence, unsure about how you feel about the events that have unfolded over the last hour. It’s a playwright at his most sinister.
Read the full story..One Hand Clapping at the re:play Festival
An adaptation of the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name, One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley’s marriage in the increasingly consumerist Britain of the 1960s.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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