“We tried to make it look like your mum putting on a celebratory show in her living room cabinet,” says Alexandra Cropper, curator of Chess in Shorts – Table Tennis and Growing Up in Jewish Manchester. “Photographs are shown in...
Read MoreIf ping pong strikes you as an unlikely sort of hook on which to hang a play, you might be right. But The Mighty Walzer, adapted from Prestwich boy Howard Jacobson’s 1999 novel, concerns Oliver Walzer, an introverted...
Read More“Why it was that every Jewish boy growing up in Manchester in the 50s played table tennis with some degree of competence I can’t explain,” observes award-winning comic writer Howard Jacobson. Born and brought up in...
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