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Hobson's Choice review " saris, acid house and a Salford Cinderella story by Mark Fisher

Royal Exchange, ManchesterRelocating Harold Brighouse's classic to Manchester's Hindu community, Tanika Gupta finds some sharp political parallels and a very funny new cultural context It is 15 years after Idi Amin expelled 70,000 Asians from Uganda. Acid house is playing in Manchester's clubs and everyone is taking ecstasy. Working in a tailor's in the city's Northern Quarter, the two younger Hobson sisters only nee…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM on June 6, 2019

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