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Theatre Review: Paul Auster’s CITY OF GLASS – HOME, Manchester

Jack Tarlton as Stillman in Paul Auster's CITY OF GLASS by 59 Productions. Photo by Jonathan Keenan

Jack Tarlton as Stillman in Paul Auster’s CITY OF GLASS by 59 Productions. Photo by Jonathan Keenan

CITY OF GLASS is a bold, ambitious and high-tech piece of theatre which captures the crazy and claustrophobic nature of Auster’s original novella

If you’ve ever read Paul Auster’s CITY OF GLASS, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this multi-layered, metafictional mystery is too tricky to make the transition to the stage...

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Theatre Review: NARVIK – HOME, Manchester

Narvik presented by Box of Tricks Theatre

Joe Shipman as Jim Callaghan and the cast of Box of Tricks’ NARVIK. Image Credit: Decoy Media

NARVIK is a bold and powerful play about of love, guilt, heroism and betrayal

Over a year after its world premiere at Liverpool Playhouse Studio, Lizzie Nunnery’s acclaimed play NARVIK embarks on a national tour as part of Box of Tricks’ tenth anniversary season.

The enigmatic new play tells the story of Jim, a 90-year-old Liverpudlian who suffers a fall at his home...

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Theatre Review: The Emperor – HOME, Manchester

Kathryn Hunter in The Emperor. HOME

This gripping production of THE EMPEROR is a tour de force of theatrical story-telling

This review was originally written for The Reviews Hub

Following the international success of KAFKA’S MONKEY, Kathryn Hunter reunites with Colin Teevan and Walter Meierjohann to take on Ryszard Kapuściński’s extraordinary tale of corruption, greed and the collapse of absolute power.

Based on the 1978 book THE EMPEROR: DOWNFALL OF AN AUTOCRAT, THE EMPEROR tells the story of the decline and fall of the Ethi...

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Theatre Review: Twelfth Night – HOME, Manchester

Twelfth Night by Filter at HOME, Manchester

Wacky, wild and wonderfully weird, Filter’s wonderfully off-kilter production of Twelfth Night is well worth a watch

Music is most definitely the food of love in Filter’s adaptation of Twelfth Night. In fact, rock music meets Shakespeare head on in this explosive reworking of Shakespeare’s lyrical play.

Twelfth Night tells the story of Viola, a young girl who is separated from her twin brother Sebastian following a shipwreck on the shores of Illyria...

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Theatre Review: WHAT’S DONE, IS DONE – HOME, Manchester

What's Done Is Done CAN Young Artists

Bold, original and innovative, WHAT’S DONE, IS DONE is a thought-provoking piece of theatre by CAN Young Artists

Community Arts North West (CAN) presented their first production WHAT’S DONE, IS DONE at Manchester’s HOME venue yesterday as part of the World Stages Festival.

WHAT’S DONE, IS DONE tells the story of Trish, an outsider who is fed up of watching all her schoolmates having fun from her bedroom window...

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