The truly transformative nature of Graeae’s approach can’t be underestimated: Joe Turnbull from Disability Arts Online reviews a new production of Lorca’s play using an all-female, D/deaf and disabled cast.
Venues: Royal Exchange
15 September 2016
Reviews • Manchester • National • Reviews
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire at the Royal Exchange Theatre
Royal Exchange ⋄ 8th September - 15th October 2016
By Catherine Love
Catherine Love reviews Maxine Peake’s “compelling and impressively fresh” performance as Blanche DuBois.
11 April 2016
Reviews • Manchester • National • Reviews
Review: King Lear at the Royal Exchange
Royal Exchange ⋄
By James Varney
The oldest hath borne most: James Varney reviews Michael Buffong’s production of Shakespeare.
26 February 2016
Reviews • Manchester • National
Review: Husbands & Sons at the Royal Exchange
Royal Exchange ⋄ 19th February – 19th March 2016
By James Varney
This play is a gallery exhibition of femininity, striving in the face of that hugely broken thing – masculinity – to which even today we seem to have no cure.
16 February 2016
Reviews • Manchester • National
Review: The Solid Life of Sugar Water at The Royal Exchange
Royal Exchange ⋄ 9th - 13th February 2016
By James Varney
Trauma and love hold together Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life of Sugar Water.
29 January 2016
Reviews • Manchester • National
Review: Wit at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange ⋄ 21st January - 13th February 2016
By James Varney
‘Wit is as tired of thinking about cancer as Vivian is; Hesmondhalgh drags us through Vivian’s treatment and death, and all we learn about is life.’
14 December 2015
Reviews • Manchester
Into the Woods
Royal Exchange ⋄ 5th December 2015 – 16th January 2016
By James Varney
Fairytales within fairytales within fairytales.
18 October 2015
Reviews • Manchester
The Crucible
Royal Exchange ⋄ 18th September - 24th October 2015
By James Varney
Butting heads.
6 July 2015
Reviews • Manchester
The Skriker
Royal Exchange ⋄ 2nd – 18th July 2015
By James Varney
The earth will one day swallow us.
22 May 2015
Reviews • Manchester
The Ghost Train
Royal Exchange ⋄ 14th May – 20th June 2015
By James Varney
The illusion of playing fast and loose.
30 April 2015
Reviews • Manchester
The Rolling Stone
Royal Exchange ⋄
By James Varney
A lifted imprint.
12 February 2015
Reviews • Manchester
Scuttlers
Royal Exchange ⋄ 5th February - 7th March 2015
By John Murphy
Gangs of Manchester.
16 December 2014
Reviews • Manchester
Little Shop of Horrors
Royal Exchange ⋄ 5th December - 31st January 2015
By John Murphy
Feed me, Seymour.
17 September 2014
Reviews • Manchester
Hamlet
Royal Exchange ⋄ 11th September - 25th October 14
By Andrew Haydon
Elsinore, so much to answer for…
22 June 2014
Reviews • Manchester
Billy Liar
Royal Exchange ⋄ 13th June - 12th July 2014
By John Murphy
Tall stories, soft stories.