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Unhinged for Push Festival at Home Mcr

Unhinged for Push Festival at Home Mcr

“Unhinged” is a further event at HOME, as part of their Push Festival 2025. It’s an extended monologue in which we meet Hazel, whose life has hit the buffers metaphorically and physically. The performance takes us on an extended tour of how she came to be in a...
Review: Maz Hedgehog shines as Medea at Home Mcr

Review: Maz Hedgehog shines as Medea at Home Mcr

The Push Festival 2025 season continues at HOME, and last night I saw “What is Love to a Goddess”.  It’s an extended solo retelling of the Greek myth of Medea (the Goddess) and Jason (of Argonaut fame) and captures the combined themes of love, betrayal, and vengeance...
Bad Science at Home Mcr

Bad Science at Home Mcr

HOME are running a week’s worth of miniature productions under the “Push Festival 2025” umbrella, and tonight (Monday 27th January), I attended a 40-minute event called Bad Science. It didn’t work, going for cheap laughs rather than developing what could have been a...
Review: Animal Farm at Bolton Octagon

Review: Animal Farm at Bolton Octagon

Bolton Octagon Theatre has revived its savagely successful co-production of George Orwell’s book “Animal Farm”, which, in the early 1970s was a regular set piece at O-Level English. What we were not taught way back then, and as the programme notes acknowledge, was...
Manchester Camerata at The Monastery

Manchester Camerata at The Monastery

Well what a treat on a bitterly cold and gloomy Sunday afternoon, to be all cosy in the magnificent surrounds of The Monastery at Gorton, listening to a captivating concert of a modern piece by Caroline Shaw followed by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, which was...