Manchester on stage – Annie Horniman at the Gaiety, Henry Irving at the Theatre Royal , Tom Courtenay at the Royal Exchange, Dickens at the Free Trade Hall – with John Alker who once produced William Walton’s Facade at a Rochdale college.

Manchester on stage – Annie Horniman at the Gaiety, Henry Irving at the Theatre Royal , Tom Courtenay at the Royal Exchange, Dickens at the Free Trade Hall – with John Alker who once produced William Walton’s Facade at a Rochdale college.