On a suitably grey Saturday, I retraced the steps of the formidable gangs of the 19th Century known as scuttlers, recently recreated by Manchester’s Royal Exchange in Rona Munro’s play of the same name. Led by Emma Fox of...
Read MoreRona Munro is a playwright of some note, having won a number of major accolades including a Writers’ Guild award for best play of 2014. So it is something of a coup that she has turned her attention to recreating a seldom...
Read More“…parents should be taught their duty, at present they seem either regardless of this or utterly afraid of correcting their children”. This isn’t a quote from Jeremy Kyle. It’s from the Manchester Guardian in 1880. Long...
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