Party Skills for the End of the World review " short on fear, long on balloons
Centenary Building, Salford A doomed attempt to mix disaster survival and party games gets the otherwise promising Manchester international festival off to a shaky startJohn McGrath, founding artistic director of the National Theatre of Wales, has taken over as chief of the essential Manchester international festival. For his first season he welcomes work from Berlin, Cairo, Karachi " and, blimey, women. His programm…