Royal Exchange Theatre
Seven-sided steel and glass theatre in the round, suspended inside a domed former cotton exchange.
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This guide to the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester starts with the odd sight under the dome: a steel and glass theatre hung in mid-air inside an old cotton exchange. It then turns to one Saturday in June 1996, when the company was staging Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes, a play about a mill girl who will not marry the boss's son. Best heard standing in the Great Hall with the columns and dome in view.
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