Cultural Shenanigans

Tales of magic and wonder from the Middle East, north Africa and India bring top quality entertainment to The Lowry thanks to Dominic Cooke’s Arabian Nights, presented by the Library Theatre Company. Arabian Nights is a wonderful family show, with as much for adults to enjoy as children. As the audience enters, there is no [...]

The second site-specific promenade performance from temporarily-homeless Library Theatre Company is Manchester Lines, specially written by adopted Mancunian, award-winning poet, playwright and novelist Jackie Kay. Although, I don’t think it’s really site-specific, rather it’s in a ‘found’ location. And it’s not really a promenade performance either; the story is contained within makeshift stage walls. Anyone [...]

This is a guest blog post I wrote for Manchester’s Library Theatre, about their Hard Times production (currently still in rehearsal). I’ll be blogging again for Library Theatre once I’ve seen the production, in June. This guest blog post originally appeared on 13 May 2011 on the Library Theatre’s website. Comfortable Times! Our third guest blogger [...]