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 [...]

It felt like cheating. Falling a little in love with Edinburgh felt like I was cheating on Glasgow, where half my family history was made and – though I’ve not spent lots of time there – a place I’ve always felt a strong bond with. Appropriately, for this blog, Glasgow was also scene of one [...]

Meh, it was okay. Just so-so; a bit hit and miss. I sat there, insulted. It made me feel angry. Really preachy, I wanted to leave at the interval. It was one big cynical marketing ploy. These are all things I have said to friends about some of the theatre I have seen in the [...]

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 [...]