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Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Next week, in Glasgow, Daniel Sloss will record his first DVD. So this is a try-out, the chance to bring materiel, old and new, to a Salford audience, equally old and new. At twenty-one Sloss is a fresh face on the comedy circuit. And it’s a face that’s selling tickets, [...]

Music: Roger Mills, Frank Naughton, Sion Orgon and Felix Otaola Choreography: Earthfall Film: Steve Vearncombe, Jim Ennis and Gerald Tyler Director: Jessica Cohen and Jim Ennis Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: A highly imaginative production from Earthfall adapts Jamie O’Neill’s tale of sexual awakening set against the background of social unrest and conflict in Ireland and [...]

Reviewer: Cathy Crabb The Public Reviews Rating: Don’t Mind Me was the first piece presented by So Many Words- the leading company for the evening of work from performers/writers with disabilities. The evening also included performance pieces from Lisa Davies, Face Me Theatre Company, and Robin Surgeoner. Jamie Patterson introducing the event explains that Don’t Mind Me takes [...]

Director and Choreographer: Matthew Bourne Music: Peter llych Tchaikovsky Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! is now twenty years old. Nutcracker! was Matthew Bourne’s first full-length ballet, his first attempt at re-staging one of the reliable classics of the classical canon and the first of his trilogy of the great Tchaikovsky ballets: a trilogy [...]

Reviewer: Lucia Cox The Public Reviews Rating: Multi-media theatre can be cumbersome if handled with little to say and much to prove. There was much to prove tonight with nine separate companies involved in a theatre celebration of diversity and disability arts in the North West. The coming together of people from Manchester, Salford and beyond is [...]

Writer: James Martyn Rogers Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Audiences usually have to be thoroughly warmed up before they’ll consent to taking part in a sing-a-long but Boothby Graffoe typically enjoys confounding expectations so we’re singing merrily away for the first number. For most comedians a guitar is just a prop – used to bash out [...]

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Despite being a comedian for over a decade, most people in the UK hadn’t heard of Doug Stanhope until he appeared as a regular contributor on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. With his opening gambit, “I’m Doug Stanhope, and that’s why I drink”, it was clear we weren’t dealing with another Michael McIntyre. [...]

Reviewer: Laura Maley The Public Reviews Rating: Australia based and Irish raised stand-up comedian Jimeoin brings a new tour to Salford’s Lowry. Lovely. That’s what it’s called. Jimeoin has appeared on TV’s Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow; Jason Manford’s Comedy Rocks, Just for Laughs and Best of Edinburgh Comedy Festival and is clearly at home on stage. Jimeoin pays [...]