Cultural Shenanigans

This review was originally written for The Public Reviews The Public Reviews Rating:  On arrival at The Lowry’s Studio theatre, the audience finds three young men on stage. Two sit quietly, one deep in concentration, one more brooding, maybe dreamy, and the third paces the stage like a boxer pumped up for a fight. The [...]

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 [...]

Check any news site, pick up any paper or listen to any news broadcast, and you’ll quickly find a mention of an environmental story. It’s not a topic that immediately lends itself to black comedy but The Heretic presents some big ideas: a climate change naysayer, militant activists, and the murky world of academic research, all [...]

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 [...]

12 June – 7 July. Number One First Street, Manchester, M15 4FN Manchester Lines audiences will find themselves in a lost property office when they reach the fifth floor of Number One First Street for the Library Theatre Company’s new production. The Transport for London lost property office in Baker Street sent a van full of [...]