Reading Time: 5 minutesTo press play on Levina’s second album, Invincible Summer, is to simultaneously bear witness to an essential journey towards healing, connection and self-discovery, and to accept the extended hand of a friend. **What did the major-label system…
Reading Time: 5 minutesFREE(HOLD) is a devotional live artwork at the junction of dance, performance, and ritual created by n:u (melissandre varin) and commissioned by Future Ritual and Fierce Festival. Dedicated to the practice of trying again and again, n:u…
Reading Time: 4 minutesViolinist Stella Chen joins ASMF to open the new season with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, following her widely acclaimed recent recording of the work with the orchestra. The programme includes Caroline Shaw’s Punctum, which draws on…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile Benjamin Cain gives an excellent performance, Private Peaceful loses some impact in the transition from page to stage Private Peaceful, based on the book of the same name by beloved author Michael Morpurgo, made its way…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA visually and sensory stimulating piece of theatre Turn of the Screw directed by Nicky Allpress and written by Morgan Lloyd Malcom is a visually and sensory stimulating piece of theatre. Entering into the dimmed theatre, the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs much a stress-test for the viewers as the characters, this brutal depiction of life in the American Frontier is a spectacular presentation of acting and cinematography Initially released in 2015 and now showing at BFI IMAX,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot your typical improv show! Talking People brought their one-night only, improvised performance of The Interview to the Bush theatre on the 19 of September. The concept is simple, three women are about to be interviewed by…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEclectic, chaotic, fun and silly. The Dirty Thirty seems to exist in the space between a scratch night and an improv-athon – I’m tickled pink that it exists Not your typical night of fringe theatre. Upon receiving…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA swirling carousel of music through time On Friday night, the Manchester Camerata presented The Expansion of Sound, as part of their Here we Are festival running from 15-20 September. Performed in the Great Nave of their…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are interesting ideas buried within Don’t Hate the Player but rather than leaving the theatre challenged or wanting to debate its themes, I simply left confused. Walking into the Old Fire Station for Don’t Hate the Player, I was…