Review: The Battle
17-03-25 Manchester Opera House by Fio Trethaway & Georgia Cook. Previously performed at the Rep in Birmingham, John Niven’s The Battle chronicles the race between UK bands Oasis and Blur to UK No. 1 in the summer of 1995. What follows is a comical exploration of this North vs South rivalry, with Oasis as the working class underdogs to Blur’s middle-class origins, managing to slowly draw out threads of class consciousness, personal pride, and the empty notions of true fame […]