Pests, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange, Manchester: When theatre descends from its lofty position of comfort to wallow in the lives of society's most deprived and most vulnerable, the results, however well intentioned, can often feel forced and heavy-handed. But Vivienne Franzmann's raw, visceral, painfully funny and sometimes uncomfortably intimate drama - co-produced by Clean Break, which has been telling the stories of women wh…