Amadou and Mariam - review

New Century Hall, ManchesterThe biggest-selling act to have emerged from Africa this century first met at a school for the blind in Mali in the early 1970s. Subsequently married, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have since received support from the likes of Manu Chao and Damon Albarn, but this show – or rather "sensory experiment" – took place very much on their own terms. Part of the Manchester international festival, it was staged in total darkness, to the point at which it was imposs...

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