Mandrake’s Magnificent Machine.
16th – 18th December 2010.
Bradford Playhouse.
Reviewer – Sara Hill.
Mandrake’s Magnificent Machine was billed as the world’s first surrealist, steampunk, absurdist pantomime. Confused? At the very least you’re going to get an antidote to the normal Christmas panto, starring has-been celebrities and X-Factor drop outs, yes? Oh yes.
Steampunk… [...]
January 31, 2011
Mandrake’s Magnificent Machine.
16th – 18th December 2010.
Bradford Playhouse.
Reviewer – Sara Hill.
Mandrake’s Magnificent Machine was billed as the world’s first surrealist, steampunk, absurdist pantomime. Confused? At the very least you’re going to get an antidote to the normal Christmas panto, starring has-been celebrities and X-Factor drop outs, yes? Oh yes.
Steampunk… [...]
If there was a big scam discovered to be killing people, luring youngsters into a life of violence, sucking up taxpayers’ money and corrupting at the highest levels, you would expect a protest. But if it was big enough, older than the Mafia, and based on lies bound into the fabric of the establishment, it could go almost unmentioned.
When the Queen visited South Yorkshire late last year, she… [...]
Next month, Sheffield Council will join the slash and burn revolution. This revolution began with our leaders Dave and Nick, but even Ed is a cutmonger at heart. In their comfortable suits and padded lives, they haven’t got a clue.
You could call them ignorant, or products of their class, or a bit full of themselves, or misguided. I’ll take a middle line and call them fascists. Now you… [...]
The woman was middle-aged and smartly dressed, with well-kempt grey hair and an efficient air. It was a bitterly cold day in the run-up to Christmas, and she was using an HSBC cash machine at Cole’s Corner. From my vantage point at a bus-stop, where I waited in vain for transportation, I saw another woman, altogether more shambolic, bustle up to her and explain busily that the other cash machine… [...]
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