Celebrating The Matrix’s revolutionary visual effects, mind-blowing storyline and iconic action sequences, Free Your Mind is a sprawling adaptation with its own iconic imagery that flows through the three-room Aviva Studios space.

Extending his joy to the Lowry audience and promising to send all the feel-good vibes you can handle, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a teen bop musical that injects a fusion of self-reflection and self-confidence into its storyline.

You don’t need a magic mirror to predict the delight that Shrek the Musical’s live adaptation will bring to younger audiences, but its humdrum soundtrack may dim its shine for the big kids amongst them.

Weaving a simply mesmerising production of humour and lightness around liberation and the HIV/Aids crisis. Cruise tells the story of Michael Spencer as he continuously flirts with death after being diagnosed with HIV and told he has only four years to live.