Library Theatre, showing as part of the Re:Play Festival 27 January 2010 No Wonder is the examination of a family disturbed by tragedy. The plot is littered with would-be fairy-tale circumstances; a young boy bursts out of what could be a magical cupboard and his father, dressed as Peter-Pan, appears to fall out of a […]
This weekend two Manchester arts venues are holding special nights to raise funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee HAITI Appeal.
Throughout the third annual Re:Play Season, new local writing which has already been premiered in non-traditional venues will be revived for another showing at The Library Theatre, bringing the work to new audiences. Spotlighting the best talent from festivals including 24:7, Re:Play is designed to encourage emerging local talents.
New queer cabaret-cum-variety Mother’s Ruin returns to greenroom for their third outing of the year with their alt take on the Christmas Special. Theirs is a 80s-tinged Yuletide Ding Dong, replete with shoulder pads, big hair (tantalisingly “available on the night”) and dragged up soap pastiche “Stark Dallas Naked”. Never has the description “Variety Show” […]
Propelled by the blistering, multi-role performance of writer-actor Ali Gadema, Contradictions takes the audience on a dark, intimate and occasionally distressing journey through early-1990s Manchester on the number 42 bus route.
Manchester’s diverse art scene is one not to be sniffed at, especially when it reveals gems like the Exodus Festival, a unique celebration of arts and culture from Greater Manchester’s refugee communities.
