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The Truth Is Can't Stop Telling Lies

TAM Hinton is the creator of such brain-boggling solo performances as the award-winning The Naked Soul Of Kirk Godless and his new show is equally extraordinary, mind-bending and exhilirating.

I don’t mind admitting I don’t really have a clue what it was about, but still found it utterly compelling as Hinton hurled himself through the minds of a multitude of characters, not one of whom could be relied on to be telling the audience the truth.

Thus, we were treated to a giddying narrative which was just as likely to touch on Baudrillard and Goethe as it was Boris Johnson, the poetry (who knew?) of Radovan Karodich, and the comedy of Tommy Cooper!

Meanwhile the music veered from the searing Johnny Cash version of Hurt to the most idiotically banal pop tunes.

At one point, Hinton, remarkably, transformed himself into a terrifying, salivating dog but even that almost seemed par for the course in this strange but rather wonderful show.

The Truth I Can't Stop Telling Lies is on at Studio Salford until Saturday, May 9. £5, £7.

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