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Royal Exchange

June 2024

  • Set among today’s idle rich … The Importance of Being Earnest.

    The Importance of Being Earnest review – Algernon et al get a 21st-century makeover

    Director Josh Roche’s new perspective – complete with smartphones, Instagram and Whitney Houston – breathes fresh life into a familiar classic

May 2024

  • Carla Henry and Chris Jack in Sweat.

    Sweat review – chilling vision of a divided, alienated America

    This timely return of Lynn Nottage’s 2015 play that anticipated Trump’s presidency has powerful performances despite never finding the right rhythm

March 2024

  • Lives threatening to collapse … Rowan Robinson and Jill Halfpenny in A Taste of Honey.

    A Taste of Honey review – Shelagh Delaney’s grenade explodes again

  • ‘Unapologetically herself’ … Rowan Robinson as Jo in A Taste of Honey.

    ‘Unbelievably relevant’: what can the explosive 1958 play A Taste of Honey tell us today?

February 2024

  • Shed<br>SHED: EXPLODED VIEW by Eclair-Powell, , Written by: Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Directed by: Atri Banerjee, Designer: Naomi Dawson, Lighting Designer : Bethany Gupwell, Sound Designer: Max Pappenheim, Movement Director: Sung Im Her, The Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester, 2024, Credit: Johan Persson/

    Shed: Exploded View review – love, loss and horrific male violence

    Phoebe Eclair-Powell’s prize-winning play is about three related relationships which seem increasingly characterised by powerlessness, menace and dislocation

October 2023

  • Conor Glean as Romeo and Shalisha James-Davis as Juliet.

    Romeo & Juliet review – slow jams, Asda bags and trackie tops in a Manchester love story

    Nicholai La Barrie’s production edits out some of Shakespeare’s characters, but amps up the modern-day relevance of this play about a divided community

September 2023

  • Esh Alladi as Pipli and Giles Cooper as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations.

    The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

  • Cecilia Appia, slightly smiling, faces a serious-looking Esh Alladi in Great Expectations

    Great Expectations review – Bengal in 1905 is tailor-made for Dickens

June 2023

  • Rehearsal images for Untitled F*ck M*ss S**gon play, Royal Exchange Manchester. L-R Rochelle Rose (narrator) Roy Alexander Weise (Director) Jeff D'Sangalang (Afi) Mei Mac (Kim) Kimber Lee (writer)

    ‘Miss Saigon is offensive’: the satire savaging the ‘racist, imperialist and misogynistic’ musical

    Playwright Kimber Lee was so shocked when she first saw the musical, she wrote a vitriolic sendup, called untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play. As it finally hits the stage, she warns: ‘This is no soft pedal’

May 2023

  • Katherine Pearce and Samantha Power in No Pay? No Way!

    No Pay? No Way! review – a bubblegum drama of despair

  • ‘Purloining the weekly grocery shop’ … Katherine Pearce as Margherita

    No Pay? No Way! review – rising food prices lead to theft and farce

April 2023

  • Ntombizodwa Ndlovu (Maggie) and Bayo Gbadamosi (Brick) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – giving Tennessee Williams new scope

    A mainly black cast and modern setting inject this new production with a dose of symbolic power

March 2023

  • Brooding … Bayo Gbadamosi as Brick and Ntombizodwa Ndlovu as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof review – Succession-style scheming in the deep south

    Modern-day version casts Tennessee Williams’s steamy melodrama in a new light, with a focus on the corruptibility of wealth

February 2023

  • Erin Shanagher and Gerard Kearns in Beginning.

    Beginning review – touching after-party tale of the last two left standing

    David Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up at the end of the night is relocated for a funny and moving revival

January 2023

  • The Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester, photographed in 1999.

    ‘Is that a theatre?’ How Manchester built a dream space to leave the world behind

    The former artistic director of the Royal Exchange reveals its extraordinary history – and the dramatic opportunities and unforgettable moments its unique design gave him

December 2022

  • Performance politics … Maxine Peake in Betty! A Sort of Musical at Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester.

    Betty! A Sort of Musical review – Maxine Peake brings Boothroyd’s story to the stage

    A slightly wonky meta structure involving a team of amdram actors muddles this show about the former MP but it has abundant charm

November 2022

  • Josie Rourke and Nica Burns at @sohoplace.

    Josie Rourke: ‘If Shakespeare was alive now he’d be under commission to Nica Burns’

  • Kimber Lee

    Play ‘born of rage’ over Asian female stereotypes lambasts Miss Saigon

October 2022

  • David Tennant in Hamlet, 2008

    David Tennant on stage: kings, lovers and mate of the Muppets – in pictures

    As David Tennant returns to the West End in CP Taylor’s play Good, revisit some of his theatre performances from the last 25 years

September 2022

  • Isobel Thom (holding arrow) and company in I, Joan at the Globe.

    The week in theatre: I, Joan; The Glass Menagerie; Silence – review

    Isobel Thom is a candid, non-binary Joan of Arc in Charlie Josephine’s eye-opening new play
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