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Dateline: 2nd August, 2010 News from the North West
NWDA cuts leave Everyman redevelopment funding shortfallLiverpool Everyman's £28m refurbishment plan will still go ahead despite not receiving the expected £2.4m contribution from the North West Development Agency according to executive director Deborah Aydon. In order to achieve its required £52m in budget cuts, the government-funded NWDA has frozen all uncommitted awards to new projects for 2010-11 and 2011-12. According to Aydon, "We are working in a very positive spirit with our other partners and stakeholders to make sure that this does not affect the momentum or the quality of the Everyman redevelopment." The remainder of the funding has been made up of £15m from Arts Council England plus donations from a variety of public and private sources. Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust, which runs the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, plans to open the new building in 2013.
Emergency 2010 call for proposalsGreen Room and hÅb's 'Emergency' platform for contemporary performance and live art, now entering its second decade, is calling for proposals for its 2010 event. The organisers are looking for artists in a wide range of media including live art, contemporary performance, time-based media and interdisciplinary arts to submit proposals for short pieces, extracts of longer works or works in progress for possible inclusion in the performance weekend on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October. Last year's tenth event featured, "a paper dress, lovingly hand-typed and stitched; a giant circular skirt leaving filligree traces of icing sugar through its lacy trim; racous rememberings of a decade of madness and one woman's musings on her identity as a horse". Proposals are sought for short performance pieces and installations and interventions in the bar that are technically simple and, for performances, no longer than twenty minutes. The deadline for applications is 6p on 6 August. For more information, see www.greenroomarts.org/emergency.
Write Now Festival call for scriptsJust as Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival of new short plays comes to an end for this year, Liverpool's similar Write Now Festival is calling for scripts for its second event in April 2011. The event is organised by Black Box Theatre Company, whose artistic director Ian Moore is the writer of The Inconsistent Whisper of Insanity in this year's 24:7, and will take place at The Actor's Studio on Seel Street in Liverpool's city centre. Scripts should be new, unpublished, ready to perform and between 45 and 60 minutes long or, for a children's play, between 35 and 45 minutes long. The deadline for submissions is 24 September 2010. For more information, see www.writenowfestival.co.uk.
TV Corrie stars in Corrie! at LowryThe stage version of Coronation Street, created by playwright Jonathan Harvey to celebrate the popular soap's fiftieth anniversary, will feature former Street star Charles Lawson, who played Jim McDonald for eleven years, as the narrator. Other former members of the soap cast appearing on stage when the production appears at The Lowry in Salford from 12 to 21 August are Simon Chadwick, Katherine Dow Blyton and Matthew Wait. Actress sought for Brick Up sequel at EmpireBang On Productions has put out a call for a young actress to appear in Brick Up: The Wirral Strikes Back by Nicky Allt, the sequel to Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels that Allt co-wrote with Dave Kirby, which will be at Liverpool Empire from 7 to 18 September. Auditions will be held for women aged 18 or over on Friday 6 August. Anyone interested in auditioning should e-mail bangontopcasting@gmail.com with contact details, information about relevant experience and a recent photograph.
NW productionsLibrary Theatre Company's youth theatre group Norfox Young People's Theatre Company will perform The Magnificent Tale of Emily Law and Arturo the Waterboy, written and directed by the theatre's community and education director Liz Postlethwaite, at Capitol Theatre in Mancheser on 6 and 7 August, inspired by the darker side of life in Victorian Manchester. In Ian Winterton's Wednesday at The Lowry in Salford on 7 and 8 August, Rose and Daniel come round in a dank cellar to find themselves tied to metal bed frames. Their abductor, Curtis, soon makes himself known and outlines the horrific fate he has in store for them. 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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