‘consummate stagecraft’ Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Lowry, Salford
One of the things about being a reviewer is that you can appear to be extremely knowledgeable when...
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‘dusted by the magic of artistry’ Flower Fairies, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral
Beloved does not seem too excessive an adjective. The Saturday afternoon day-trippers thronging Port Sunlight’s delightfully self-contained Lady Lever Art Gallery seem borne along the thoroughfares of its exhibition space...
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‘a committed rawness’ Peter Hook & The Light, Albert Hall, Manchester
It is, to pilfer the most shop-worn of footballing clichés, a game of two halves. For the opening...
Read More‘slithering duplicity’ Richard III, Liverpool Playhouse
Is it possible to make an audience empathise with Shakespeare’s tyrannical Richard III? Adjoa Andoh gives it a good go in her fresh new adaptation for Liverpool’s Playhouse and the Rose Theatre in Kingston, in which the...
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Manchester Literature Festival: In Conversation…Eleanor Catton, Waterstones
In a literary sense, at least, Eleanor Catton is adept at shedding her skin. Each of her three...
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