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Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses by Elysium Theatre Company at 53two, Manchester Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Manchester really is a treasure trove of theatres, with new venues popping up...
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Khloé Kardashian - The Arden
Khloé Kardashian - The Arden Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 This is the review for a show called Khloe Kardashian. Sound. Sections of script from Tchekov's Three Sisters are projected onto...
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The Threepenny Opera - Octagon
The Threepenny Opera at The Octagon Theatre, Bolton Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's seminal collaboration, based on John Gay's Beggar's Opera, about the...
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Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Palace Theatre, Manchester Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 First written as a short, 20-minute piece for school children to sing, this was...
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Stay Happy, Keep Smiling
Stay Happy, Keep Smiling at 53two, Manchester Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Presented by Manchester Actors' Platform, and directed by MAP's founding director Simon Naylor, this is a piece...
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Sunset Boulevard - Palace Theatre
Sunset Boulevard at Palace Theatre Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Writing reviews for shows which are practically perfect are always much more difficult somehow because they can come...
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Oliver! Sale Nomads
Oliver! - Sale Nomads at The Waterside Arts Centre, Sale. Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Of all Lionel Bart's Musicals, Oliver! is the only one to have survived, and continues to be...
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Slava's Snow Show
Slava's Snow Show at Lowry Theatre Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 It is quite incredible to think that a devised piece of physical theatre based clowning can have achieved such popularity...
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The Suicide - HOME
The Suicide - at HOME, Manchester by Manchester School Of Theatre Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 As part of their final year of three year's study, students at Manchester School Of Theatre...
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The Haunting of Blaine Manor
The Haunting of Blaine Manor Written and performed by Joe O’Byrne at The Kings Arms, Salford Reviewed by John Waterhouse October 2017 Joe O’Byrne is best known for ‘Tales from Paradise Heights’, a...
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Collision Course
Collision Course by Front Row Theatre at The Kings Arms, Salford Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 Front Row Theatre are from Preston and were established in 2014 by graduates of UCLAN, and...
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Symphony Orchestra - Royal Northern College Of Music
RNCM Symphony Orchestra at Royal Northern College Of Music Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 Welcome to The Royal Northern College Of Music, one of the world's most prestigious music...
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Spamalot - Palace Theatre
Spamalot - Palace Theatre at Palace Theatre, Manchester Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 Monty Python's shamelessly camp Mickey Take of itself rolled into Manchester for a 5 night run this...
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Into The Underworld - RNCM
Into The Underworld at Royal Northern College Of Music Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 RNCM Learning And Participation's Children's Opera Project is now in its tenth year, and provides a...
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J B SHORTS 18
J B Shorts 18 at 53two, Manchester Reviewed by Matthew Dougall October 2017 Manchester's theatrical institution, J B Shorts, a collaboration and collection of 6 15-minute plays written, directed and...
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Dick Whittington
Dick Whittington at Oldham Coliseum By Fine Time Fontayne and Kevin Shaw Reviewed by John Waterhouse November 2017 Panto-season is traditionally the time many theatres clean up financially after...
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Jason Manford - A Different Stage
Jason Manford - A Different Stage at Lowry Theatre Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 Salfordian comedian and actor Jason Manford (actually born in Irlam O'Th' Heights), brought most of his...
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Avenue Q
Avenue Q by University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society (UMMTS) Reviewed by Matthew Dougall November 2017 The University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society (UMMTS) have done it again, and...
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Metamorphosis at The Lowry
Metamorphosis at The Lowry By Franz Kafka, Adapted by Kerry Frampton Reviewed by John Waterhouse November 2017 ‘The Metamorphosis’ was a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 in what is...
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Metamorphosis at The Lowry
Metamorphosis at The Lowry By Franz Kafka, Adapted by Kerry Frampton Reviewed by John Waterhouse November 2017 ‘The Metamorphosis’ was a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915 in what is...
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