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Even These Things review

“Kaleidoscopic circus of life”
ReviewsMay 21, 202609:25 by Matt BartonRoyal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
A member of the community cast in Even These Things at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Photo: Royal Exchange Theatre
A member of the community cast in Even These Things at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Photo: Royal Exchange Theatre
James Macdonald directs Rory Mullarkey’s sensitive but scattershot play about the 1996 IRA bomb in Manchester

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