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Alica MacDonald's 'Finding Emily' provides an inventive spin on the rom-com for a modern audience thanks to a strong sense of place – and UoM's campus
Insidious is back with nothing further to say, leaving in the wake of the Lamberts a 'fresh' start only aiming to parrot its ghastly blueprint
Family, love, and cultlike faith unspool together in this new undersea drama, ‘Divine Wave’
Benedict Zephyr and Neeyati Singh offer an isolated tale of colonial cabin fever in ‘Juturna’
In ‘A Vacuum at the Centre’, Elisabeth Hughes and Ruby Coyte produce an eclectically eccentric comedy that comes directly from heart to stage
Hattie Wood and Martha Pardue’s ethereal production of Sarah Ruhl’s Greek tragedy never looks back
UMDS shine a light on a pair of forgotten queer artists and activists in ‘The Beauty of It’
UMDS put an elegant spin on the classic comedy of errors
UMDS kick off the MIFTAs with a searing exploration of masculinity, loss, and pest control in ‘We Know the Rats’
In Start Swimming, its final Autumn Fringe show, UMDS proves that it is not going anywhere
Playback brings sibling conflict and a deeply haunted house to UMDS’ Autumn Fringe
Daniel Grady and Maisy Nichols’ It Speaks in American is a striking take on quintessential Americana
UMDS’s corporate comedy of errors offers slapstick, wordplay, and baked goods
In The Candidates, Harry Petts and Dan Greenwood deliver a strong satire that drips with both farce and melancholy
Alfie Pullum and Maisie Bayliss’ The Postcode Lottery offers up a cutting commentary on hunter and hunted
The Mancunion sits down with co-presidents Mili and Nitheeshan to talk everything UMDS
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UMDS’ campy, farcical comedy still knows exactly when to twist the knife
UMDS’ Cliffs is a sappy but sweet study of a family across generations
In New Leeds, Jake Turner Chan paints a striking vision of a future shaped by climate change, and the ties that keep us afloat
UMDS’ adaptation of The Duchess of Malfi manages to revive a powerful depiction of Jacobean misogyny
Pavel Kushnir in Concert is an astonishing tribute to a lost political activist
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