Manchester international festival 2019

Ibrahim Mahama: Parliament of Ghosts; David Lynch: My Head Is Disconnected – review

The Ghanaian artist resurrects the detritus of his nation’s post-colonial struggles

Tim Adams

28, Jul, 2019 @8:00 AM

The Nico Project; The Fountainhead – review

Maxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand’s controversial novel

Claire Armitstead

21, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM

Maggie the Cat review - wit and passion abound

Trajal Harrell’s thrilling take on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stands apart at the Manchester international festival

Sarah Crompton

21, Jul, 2019 @6:59 AM

The week in classical: Tao of Glass review - an extraordinary exploration of creativity

Royal Exchange, Manchester
Philip Glass makes a surprise appearance at Phelim McDermott’s astonishing tribute show

Stephen Pritchard

20, Jul, 2019 @11:00 AM

Skepta: Dystopia987 review – flat energy in nightclub of the future

Craft beer replaces ecstasy at this meeting of immersive theatre and rave, which lacks the abandon of a regular gig by the MC

Daniel Dylan Wray

19, Jul, 2019 @6:00 PM

Thank You Very Much review – disabled dancers strut Elvis moves

The King’s unique physicality is the source for Claire Cunningham’s compelling and illuminating show

Anna Winter

18, Jul, 2019 @12:01 PM

'People think I'm very odd': how Ibrahim Mahama brought Ghana's past to Manchester

From second-hand train seats to old school cupboards, the artist has transported discarded objects from his west African homeland to create a ‘parliament of ghosts’

Stuart Jeffries

16, Jul, 2019 @5:00 AM

Trajal Harrell: Maggie the Cat review – Tennessee Williams sashays away

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with voguing sounds interesting, but Trajal Harrell’s parade of dancers modelling soft-furnishings to free jazz is more vague than vogue

Sanjoy Roy

15, Jul, 2019 @10:23 AM

Re:Creating Europe review – voices from history echo through Brexit

From Henry V’s speech to Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry, this illuminating production explores the ‘flawed family’ of Europe

Mark Fisher

14, Jul, 2019 @12:27 PM

The Nico Project review – Maxine Peake digs deep into a nightmare

With fascinating – and frustrating – results, the actor plays a woman seemingly possessed by the ghost of the late Velvet Underground singer

Mark Fisher

14, Jul, 2019 @11:33 AM

The week in theatre: Tree; Invisible Cities; Peter Gynt – review

Tree is less exciting than the row about its authorship

Susannah Clapp

14, Jul, 2019 @7:00 AM

The Fountainhead review – Ivo van Hove hypnotises with Ayn Rand's nonsense

Internationaal Theater Amsterdam present a constantly inventive, four-hour staging of the overheated 1943 polemic

Michael Billington

11, Jul, 2019 @9:29 AM

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