Cultural Shenanigans

This review was originally written for The Public Reviews. The Public Reviews Rating:  Opera North’s production of Mozart’s last opera, La clemenza di Tito, is the first in its 35-year history. The Lowry plays host to a hyper modern staging of the opera, with a talented cast who do their best with one of Mozart’s [...]

This review was originally written for The Public Reviews. The Public Reviews Rating:  An Auguste Rodin-inspired dance show from award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant and Sadler’s Wells offers glimpses of sculptural beauty, and some astonishing skill at The Lowry, but perhaps too much reliance on statue stillness. The first act of The Rodin Project has obvious [...]

This review was originally written for The Public Reviews. The Public Reviews Rating:  Three men in a boat, and who do you think they are? The posh one, the simple one and the manic one, on the edge. Spike Theatre’s Sink or Swim is an inventive 75 minute marking the company’s 15th anniversary. Director Mark [...]

Mother Courage and Her Children is a fascinating play, with timeless themes which ensures it will be tackled and interpreted for many years to come. Mother Courage and her three children trek the bloody battlefields of the Thirty Years’ War  (1618-48), determined to make profit from war. Under Chris Honer’s direction, the Library Theatre Company’s [...]

This review was originally written for The Public Reviews The Public Reviews Rating:  A double bill of musicals sees two very different productions take the stage at Salford’s Lowry to a nearly full house. Both feature original music, and stories of love which have been well-received by audiences already. And both could not be more [...]