Stoller Hall, Manchester; The Lowry, SalfordMaxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand's controversial novelHow can The Nico Project excavate a woman who has been stuck in the mythical permafrost for as long as Nico " and why would it want to? Since her death aged 49 in 1988, the German musician, model and muse has become a footnote in the mid-20th-century avant garde, m…
