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performance Is This Thing On?
Contact | 17 – 20 April 2024

Meet flatmates Mary and Liz, one a musician and the other a poet, as they battle over integrity, ownership, the spotlight and whose turn it is to buy the f*cking toilet roll.

performance The Bell Curves
Ascension Church | 18 – 20 April 2024

An all-female cast confronts the topic of science experimentation against the backdrop of a gospel church rehearsal.

performance Blue Beard
HOME | 13 – 24 February 2024

Emma Rice brings her own brand of theatrical wonder to this most beguiling and disturbing of tales with Wise Children’s Blue Beard.

performance From England with Love
HOME | 6 – 8 June 2024

Playful and poignant, full of pride and paradox, From England with Love plays like a ‘Dear John’ letter… a farewell note to old England

performance Tender
HOME | 9 – 11 May 2024

Drawing on the personal narratives of its company of refugee actors, Tender explores the true cost of the migration journey for young people.

performance The Promise
HOME | 25 – 27 April 2024

This striking world première is inspired by the extraordinary experiences of deaf people living with dementia.

performance We’re All Just Wasps in Glass Houses
HOME | 19 – 20 April 2024

We’re All Just Wasps in Glass Houses, is a thought-provoking journey into Manchester’s apocalyptic streets, where you will laugh, cry, riot and even dance.

performance Rewind
HOME | 10 – 11 April 2024

Rewind is a multi-award-winning show inspired by recurring facts from human rights abuse in Latin America.

performance No More Mr Nice Guy
HOME | 21 – 23 March 2024

No More Mr Nice Guy is a new experimental gig-theatre chronicling the life of a British Caribbean Music Teacher caught in a love cube.

performance A Family Business
HOME | 29 February – 2 March 2024

A show about how not to blow up the planet. About diplomats, activists, and a journey to change the world.

performance Big Finish (It’s the End of the World, But Not Now)
HOME | 21 – 24 February 2024

Big Finish is a show about endings, and beginnings, and middles, and endings…wait… it’s a cycle.

theatre Museum of Austerity
HOME | 8 – 11 November 2023

English Touring Theatre, National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio and Trial & Error Studio present Museum of Austerity.

literature Louder Than Words Festival
INNSIDE by Meliá Hotel | 10 – 12 November 2023

The UK’s biggest music-literary Festival returns for its eleventh year with a huge line-up, from Will Sergeant (Echo and the Bunnymen) to Nick Banks (Pulp), Napalm Death’s Shane Embury, and Penetration’s Pauline Murray.

literature Portrait of a Poet 
The Whitworth | 5 October 2023

An evening of live performance art about the ways we perform for love and acceptance, mixing opera, poetry, and art instructions.

performance Arlo Parks Presents The Magic Border
Contact | 9 September 2023

In The Magic Border, Arlo Parks shares twenty original poems, song lyrics and intimate images from collaborator, photographer Daniyel Lowden

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