Not with a bang but with a party popper: Catherine Love reviews the world premiere of Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari’s immersive apocalypse show.
Catherine Love
Articles by Catherine Love
19 June 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Bears at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
14 - 18 June 2017
By Catherine Love
Shifting the conversation from the mind to the gut: Catherine Love reviews Powder Keg’s new show about climate change.
10 May 2017
Reviews • Manchester • National • Reviews
Review: How My Light Is Spent at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
April 24 - May 13
By Catherine Love
Magical-realism by way of light yet damning political critique: Catherine Love reviews Alan Harris’ “strange, delicate” 2015 Bruntwood Prize-winner.
2 May 2017
Features
Ellie Harrison: “It’s about embedding care from the very first”
By Catherine Love
In her Grief Series, Ellie Harrison explores mourning in a seven-part cycle of artworks. Here, she talks reinventing rituals, and how art can be therapeutic without being therapy.
24 April 2017
Reviews • Leeds
Review: Guerrilla at Transform 17
21-22 April 2017
By Catherine Love
A low drone of anxiety: Catherine Love reviews El Conde de Torrefiel’s show as part of Transform 17.
23 April 2017
Reviews • Leeds
Review: The Darkest Corners at Transform 17
20 - 22 April 2017
By Catherine Love
A galvanising call to arms: Catherine Love reviews RashDash’s new show as part of Transform 17.
21 April 2017
Reviews
Review: Lessons of Leaking at Transform 17
21 - 22 April 2017
By Catherine Love
It’s all just a game: Catherine Love reviews machina eX’s production linking gaming and politics.
20 April 2017
Reviews • Dance • Reviews
Review: Wellness at Transform 17
April 19 - April 20
By Catherine Love
Shock is their shtick: Catherine Love is at Transform 17 festival to review the UK premiere of Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek’s Wellness
23 March 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Daniel at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange Studio ⋄ 22 March 2017
By Catherine Love
Dangerously charged: Catherine Love reviews Footprint Theatre’s performance of Daniel in Manchester.
22 March 2017
Reviews • Salford
Review: Gaudete at The Lowry, Salford
20 - 21 March 2017
By Catherine Love
Belongs to another place: Catherine Love reviews a stage adaptation of Ted Hughes’ prose poem.
18 March 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Cock and Bull at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange Studio ⋄ 16th-18th March 2017
By Catherine Love
A thing of then and now and whatever the hell might be next: Catherine Love reviews Cock and Bull, two years on from when it was made.
9 March 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Sick! Festival in Manchester
8 - 12 March 2017
By Catherine Love
Death. Illness. Identity: Catherine Love reviews the Sick! Festival in Manchester.
16 February 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: JOAN at Contact, Manchester
Contact Theatre ⋄ 14 - 16 February 2017
By Catherine Love
This is unquestionably about identity: Catherine Love reviews Lucy Jane Parkinson in JOAN.
3 February 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Narvik at HOME, Manchester
HOME ⋄ 31 January – 4 February 2017
By Catherine Love
Somewhere across the icy waters: Catherine Love reviews Liz Nunnery’s WWII play with songs.
20 January 2017
Reviews • Manchester
Review: Morale is High (Since we gave up Hope) at HOME, Manchester
HOME ⋄ 16 - 18 January 2017
By Catherine Love
An uncertain piece of theatre in uncertain times: Catherine Love reviews Powder Keg’s performance as part of PUSH festival 2017.