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The Lowry restaurant overlooking Salford Quays is completely packed. An attractive young waitress whose nametag reads ‘Rachel’ seats me at a table with eight strangers. The small talk commences – everyone is excited about this experimental play, one of six to be selected for the Library Theatre Company’s Re:Play Festival which features the best of [...]

Ian Winterton’s gritty drama about a prostitute trying to hide her shady career while caring for her younger sister was first seen at last summer’s 24:7 festival before moving onto the Edinburgh fringe. The play’s title Sherica is taken from the false name assumed by the leading role as she goes about her secret life [...]

When I told my friends that I was going to see The Wind in the Willows, a few asked with disdain, “Is it a Christmas production?” They warned me that ‘tis the season for haphazard affairs thrown together for children who don’t know better and their desperate parents. I went to The Lowry with rather [...]