Theatre Review: CRUISE - HOME, Manchester
Set in 1980s Soho, CRUISE is despairing and delightful, heart-wrenching and heartwarming. CRUISE is a two-person, Olivier-nominated play teaming flawless acting with irresistible music. CRUISE shines its fluorescent red, blue and white lights over the backstreets of 1980s Soho, where the scene is grotty and grimy, it’s dangerous, and it’s raucous, it’s beautiful, and it’s […]
Theatre Review: THE MAIDS – HOME, Manchester
Violently deluded yet brilliantly captivating, THE MAIDS is a dark twisted tale that is bold and unforgettable Bringing a whole new pallet of colours to the show, director Lily Sykes refreshes THE MAIDS into a story which changes the notion of gender roles and contemporary ideas and steals our attention with intensity, dark humour and a delusional […]
Theatre Review: OTHELLOMACBETH – HOME, Manchester
OTHELLOMACBETH offers a unique retelling of two of Shakespeare's most brutal plays, highlighting the perspective of the female characters in a very modern way As the Royal Exchange plays host to QUEEN MARGARET, a new play about Margaret of Anjou taken from Shakespeare’s original text, HOME, in collaboration with Lyric Hammersmith, go one step further by […]
Shocking, powerful and darkly funny, JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN is a dark comedy about the contradictory nature of faith
Shocking, powerful and darkly funny, JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN is a dark comedy about the contradictory nature of faith Jake Murray makes a welcome return to his hometown of Manchester to direct the Northern Premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning Stephen Adly Guirgis' play JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN. Set in America in 1998, JESUS HOPPED […]
Inspired by their super fan obsession, DOLLYWOULD by Sh!t Theatre is a bold, bouncy and bonkers celebration of all things Dolly Parton
Inspired by their super fan obsession, DOLLYWOULD is a bold, bouncy and bonkers celebration of all things Dolly Parton Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit of Sh!t Theatre have never really been conventional. Whether it’s tackling the housing crisis in LETTERS TO WINDSOR HOUSE or with shaking up history with SHE BANGS THE DRUMS, the award-winning performance […]
Fusing text, music and movement with dance and design, THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK captivates the soul and ravishes the senses
With its dizzying fusion of text, music, movement, dance and design, THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK captivates the soul and ravishes the senses If you aren’t familiar with Marc Chagall's work before watching THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK, I’d recommend you Google him. Not because you need to have seen his paintings to appreciate Kneehigh […]
Roland Schimmelpfennig's experimental and insightful play WINTER SOLSTICE delivers a timely warning
Roland Schimmelpfennig's radical play WINTER SOLSTICE is a timely warning of how easy it is to be taken in by the deceptive face of extremism I’ll admit that I hadn’t heard of German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig before watching WINTER SOLSTICE its clear to see why he is the most performed playwright in Germany. Written four years […]
Theatre Review: HOT BROWN HONEY - HOME, Manchester
Confronting and challenging perceptions of modern women, HOT BROWN HONEY is unlike anything you will have seen before HOT BROWN HONEY is a group of six women who are out to make some noise - lots of noise! Throughout the show the audience are inspired to do the same. Smoking hot, HOT BROWN HONEY confronts […]
Theatre Review: PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS – HOME, Manchester
If you only see one play this year, make sure it’s PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS When Duncan Macmillan’s PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS first made its premiere at the National Theatre in 2015, the theatre world went wild. The tragi-comic play about addiction and recovery received five star reviews in the press, enjoying sold-out performances at […]
LETTERS TO MORRISSEY is a darkly comic and emotive coming-of-age story
Powerful, funny and incredibly poignant, LETTERS TO MORRISSEY is a darkly comic and emotive coming-of-age story Following its successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Gary McNair brings his one-man show LETTERS TO MORRISSEY to Manchester for a week long run at HOME. LETTERS TO MORRISSEY starts back in 1997 with a lonely teenage […]