Rats' Tales; Arabian Nights " review
Royal Exchange, Manchester; Lowry, SalfordAncient storytelling traditions kaleidoscope to life in two texts by contemporary writers. Rats' Tales sashays out of shadow-fraught European forests in Carol Ann Duffy's new interweaving of folk tales with her own original stories. Dominic Cooke's colourful Arabian Nights shimmer to life surrounded by shifting desert sands. These tremendous productions from the Royal Exchang…