You know there are A-listers in town when there's an army of autograph hunters at Stage Door at Manchester Opera House. The theatre plays host this week to Poldark star Aidan Turner and Doctor Who's Jenna Coleman - two of showbusiness's hottest properties - on stage in a new production of Sam Steiner's Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.
They are the considerable star pulls for this show. And it perhaps explains why there is such feverish interest in what would otherwise be a quite unusual play to see on an Opera House stage more accustomed to hosting blockbuster musicals and family-friendly stalls fillers.
This production arrives here in Manchester fresh from the West End where it has been described as a "tender and funny rom-com about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can’t say anything anymore". I'm not entirely convinced on the tender or funny description, but it's certainly a thought-provoking play nonetheless about a world where only 140 words a day are allowed to be uttered.
