The one strand of programming for children and young people in this year’s Manchester International Festival programme is a collection of four new works for different age groups from Belgian cross-disciplinary (dance / theatre / performance art) director Inne Goris. Goris’ work is experimental in form, always with a strong musical presence (from composer collaborator […]

One of the most anticipated events of this year’s Manchester International Festival, this collaboration between Adam Curtis and Massive Attack brings together the renowned documentary maker with some of the most innovative musicians of the last twenty years. As is the case with all his films, the research Curtis and his team have undertaken is […]

Walking out of the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night, a young chap in front of me looked up at his father and asked: ‘Can I fly when I’m a hundred, dad?’ Such was the wonder and joyous enthusiasm created by Cirque Alfonse with their London debut of Timber – an all-singing, all-dancing, banjo-fuelled hoedown with […]

‘I wish everyone could see this bank, so that they could learn from it, like I have’ reads a little note inside an illuminated glass jar – part of an installation of wishes that is the final image of Theatre-Rites’ Bank On It. As the young audience leaves I loiter, reading more and more of […]

Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival for the third year running, the Greenwich Fair event showcased UK and international outdoor arts of the past year, presenting both new and proven street arts work in various locations around the town. The format revives a historical fair that used to fill Greenwich’s streets with sideshows, booths […]