Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Shakespeare rewrite sets the court intrigue in a modern call centre
Headsets replace heralds; the verse still lands.
A touring company relocated a Shakespearean intrigue to a night-shift call centre, using headsets and KPI whiteboards without discarding verse.
Young audiences laughed first, then recognised the surveillance.
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