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Writer: Simon Stephens Director: Clive Judd Reviewer: Poppy Helm The Public Reviews Rating: The Library Theatre’s Re-Play festival provides another opportunity to see some of Manchester’s best new theatre. Herons, winner of five awards at the 2009 National Student Drama Festival, sits indisputably within this category. This is a play that feels long, not because it is uninteresting [...]

Writer: Aillis Ni Ryan Director: Paula Simms Reviewer:Katherine Kirwin The Public Reviews Rating: Cell is an intense and disturbing look into a day of a bright but disturbed young Irishman who is living as a recluse in his bedroom in his parent’s house, with an imaginary alter-ego questioning each of his decisions. He has not left his bedroom [...]

Writer/Director: Billy Cowan Music: Jamie Summers Reviewer: Katherine Kirwin The Public Reviews Rating: Truant Company are a company which focus upon creating new theatrical work which examines the world from the perspective of queer identity and sub-culture. Care Takers was performed at The Lowry, The Oldham Coliseum and The Unity in Liverpool as part of homotopia and was [...]

Writer: Alistair McDowall Director: Clive Judd Reviewer: Val Peets The Public Reviews Rating: Written by Alistair McDowall, Presented by Cheap Seats and Directed by Clive Judd at The Library Theatre, 5.30, was both funny, uncomfortable and compelling in equal measure. Staged as part of the Re:Play Festival 2010 and described as, “A compelling and at times terrifying piece charting [...]

Based on The tales by The Brothers Grimm Adaptor: Carol Ann Duffy Dramatised: Tim Supple Composer: Conor Mitchell Director: Rachel O’Riordan Reviewer: John Roberts The festive season always seems so full of happy go lucky productions, which leave you feeling slightly sick and fed up with being so merry and cheerful, so it is a [...]

Writer: Bertolt Brecht Adaptor: David Harrower Director: Chris Honer Reviewer: John Roberts The Library Theatre over the past decade has gained a name for itself in carving out excellent and well thought out productions of some of Brecht’s most classic plays, and so in 2009 it is time for The Good Soul of Szechuan to [...]