John Rylands Library, ManchesterThe actor's controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised It is eerily fitting that a dystopian tale in which books are banned and writers are under threat of having their hands amputated is staged in one of Manchester's most revered libraries. For the Manchester international festival, Maxine Peake, Sarah Fran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AM on July 7, 2023