Even These Things review – mapping Manchester’s history, from a Victorian fist fight to the IRA bomb
Royal Exchange, Manchester Rory Mullarkey’s play, expertly directed by James Macdonald, is a bold attempt to encapsulate a whole city in decisive events from across three centuriesThe theme of the Royal Exchange’s 50th anniversary season is “a homecoming”. But whose home do they mean? Who lives here? Who belongs?Is it, for example, the heavily pregnant Annie Donovan, an Irish immigrant who, in the Manchester …