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Dateline: 1st November, 2009 News from the North West
Lowry auditions young dancers for new professional dance schemeThe Lowry in Salford will be auditioning dancers aged from 12 to 16 years for places on a new professional dance scheme that will provide professional training to young people with a passion for performing, although the Centre for Advanced Training scheme will welcome students with little or no dance experience as well those with a background of dance training and performance. The scheme, funded by the Department for Children, School and Families through the Music and Dance Scheme, will have thirty places available, and the students accepted will take part in six to eight hours of training per week outside school time in contemporary technique, ballet, urban and street dance plus pilates and yoga as well as learning about diet and nutrition, health and safety, injury prevention and history and appreciation of dance. Scheme director Jonathan Poole said, "This is a unique opportunity for highly-motivated and passionate young people who aspire to pursue a career in the dance profession. We look forward to welcoming thirty students in January 2010 to take part in the first CAT scheme at The Lowry and helping them develop valuable new skills which they can demonstrate at a showcase here in July." To find out more and to register an interest in auditioning for a place, see http://www.thelowry.com/CAT or contact Sally Powell on 0161 876 2018 or by e-mail at CAT@thelowry.com.
Dave Spikey is Rocky Horror narratorRichard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show will star local comedian Dave Spikey as the narrator for just one week when it visits the Palace Theatre in Manchester next month. Spikey is most famous as club compère Jerry 'St. Clair' Dignan in Peter Kay's hit comedy series Phoenix Nights for Channel 4, but he regularly tours clubs and theatres both locally and nationally with his stand-up comedy act. The production will also star David Bedella as 'Sweet Transvestite' Frank N Furter, Mark Evans as Brad, Haley Flaherty as Janet, Brian McCann as Riff Raff, Dominic Tribuzio as Rocky, Ceris Hine as Columbia, Kara Lane as Magenta and Nathan Amzi as Eddie and Dr Scott. The production will run at the Palace from 7 to 12 December and is also at the Liverpool Empire from 9 to 14 November with Michael Starke as the narrator. Other guest narrators on the tour include Steve Pemberton, Ainsley Harriott, Christopher Biggins and Tim Brooke-Taylor. Everyman & Playhouse shortlisted for £10,000 Lever PrizeArts Council England has just announced the four shortlisted entries for the Lever Prize 2010 for arts organisations in the north west region judged by the North West Business Leadership Team. Amongst the four shortlisted candidates for the prize of £10,000 plus support from influential business leaders in the region is Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust, the management company that runs Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, joining FutureEverything 2010, NOISE Festival and Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery. Each had to present its ideas for how it could usefully collaborate with NWBLT members and effectively use the cash prize. NWBLT chief executive Geoffrey Piper complimented the high standard of the entries to the prize this year, adding, "The aim of the Lever Prize is to highlight the north west as being a bright, contemporary place for art and culture to develop and we believe that this can be achieved best through collaboration with business." The winner will be announced early in the new year.
NW productionsDavid Schofield returns to the Royal Exchange Theatre to play Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer, also starring Roberta Taylor and David Ryall, from 4 November to 5 December. Felicity Kendal plays the titular character in Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession at The Lowry from 2 to 7 November. Also at The Lowry, Sarah Jayne Dunn, Sally Lindsay and Lisa Riley star in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues from 5 to 7 November and Simon Corble's adaptations of ghost stories by Charles Dickens and M R James The Signalman will be presented by Found Theatre on 7 and 8 November. Blunderbus Theatre Company presents its adaptation of Marcus Pfister's story book Rainbowfish at Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on 7 November. Breathe Out Theatre presents Rob Johnston's play Human Habitation, first performed at last year's 24:7 Theatre Festival, at Studio Salford from 4 to 7 November. Birmingham Rep brings one of its Horrible Histories adaptations from the best-selling children's history books by Terry Deary, this time featuring The Woeful Second World War and The Frightful First World War, to the Opera House in Manchester from 3 to 7 November. Cameron Stewart performs My Grandfather's Great War based on his grandfather's First World War diaries at The Met in Bury on 4 November. Also at The Met, Tall Stories will perform Something Else based on the picture book by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell on 7 November. Brendan O'Carroll's popular Mrs Brown character returns to Liverpool Empire in his new show How Now Brown Cow from 2 to 7 November. Out of Joint will take Robin Soans's Mixed Up North to Liverpool's Everyman Theatre from 3 to 7 November. At Liverpool Playhouse, Fiery Light and Royal and Derngate, Northampton will present David Wood's adaptation of popular children's story The BFG by Roald Dahl from 3 to 7 November. Spymonkey brings its anarchic adaptation of Moby Dick to The Dukes in Lancaster from 5 to 7 November. Vertigo Theatre Productions will present Rage by Craig Hepworth and Adele Stanhope, about a group of college students who were targeted by a fellow student on campus as he went on a rampage through the halls of the college shooting his fellow classmates, at Taurus Bar in Manchester from 3 to 7 November. The Ding Foundation will perform Hanging by a Thread at the Unity in Liverpool on 3 November, where Billy Cowan's Caretakers, in which a new teacher believes that a boy is being bullied because he’s gay, will be performed by Truant Company on 5 and 6 November. Touched Theatre will perform Human Remains, inspired by the true story of a northern troublemaker turned African adventurer, at the Rose Theatre in Ormskirk on 5 November. Also at the Rose, J Meade Falkner's classic children's story of smuggling on the south coast Moonfleet will be brought to the stage on 7 November. Christopher Trumbo's play Trumbo, about the appearance before the House Un-American Activities Commitee of the screenwriter of Spartacus, Roman Holiday and Exodus, Dalton Trumbo, in 1947 that caused him to be imprisoned and blacklisted, will be at the Octagon in Bolton on 6 November. The Green Room in Manchester will present a double bill of Ehsan Gill's Separation of Mixtures and Oliver Bray's Villa on 6 November. MaD Theatre Company's Angels with Manky Faces, inspired by the book Gangs of Manchester by Andrew Davies, will enjoy another run in Manchester, this time at The Dancehouse Theatre from 6 to 8 November. At Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, Mappa Mundi, Theatr Mwldan and Torch Theatre collaborate on a production of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer which can be seen on 7 November. Bob The Builder's live show Spud's Big Mess will visit Preston's Guild Hall and Charter Theatre on 7 November. Paul Warwick has directed Heaven Spot, devised and performed by young people from Oldham, about a young Serbian family living in their town, which will be performed at the Coliseum from 5 to 7 November. Reporter: David Chadderton Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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