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Dateline: 5th June, 2005 News from the North West
Write festival in ManchesterThis year's Write festival at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester - titled Write 2: Rewrite - features one production and three rehearsed readings from last year's four winners. Sharif Samad's Pictures of Clay, a story of human failings, relationships and witchcraft, will receive a production without decor from 8th - 18th June.
Writers' festival in LiverpoolLiverpool Everyman Theatre is hosting a second Everyword writers' festival this year from 13th to 18th June. For six days, the Everyman will offer a series of events aimed at budding playwrights and all those interested in new writing. There will be workshops on how to write for the stage, readings of new plays by emerging talent, discussions with some of the country¹s leading writers of film and theatre and a piece of verbatim theatre about Liverpool's proposed managed zone for sex workers. Contributors include Frank Cottrell-Boyce (24 Hour Party People; Hilary and Jackie, Butterfly Kiss, Millions), Robert Farquhar (national tours of God's Official and Almost Forever But; forthcoming premiere of Bad Jazz in New York), John Fay (Coronation Street ITV1; Clocking Off BBC1), Maurice Bessman (A Little Pinch of Chilli at the Everyman; Casualty, Holby City BBC1) and Bill Morrison (Flying Blind Liverpool Everyman; Royal Court; extensive television and radio credits BBC1&2, Radio 4).
Summer of Love in BoltonThis week, the auditorium of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton is turned into the grassy knoll of a music festival and a live band will be playing hits from the first Summer of Love. Audiences are being encouraged to attend in full hippy regalia and to bring their drinks into the auditorium to add to the atmosphere. The event is Jim Cartwright's Eight Miles High, described as not so much a play as a happening. Set in a muddy field in the 1960s at Lancashire's answer to Woodstock, the hippy festival goers mix with a Hell's angel, a sleazy tabloid reporter and an unpleasant landowner who is determined to stop the festival. North West theatre jobsCommunity Arts North West in Manchester is looking for a general manager with management and financial experience, a high level of literacy ability and excellent communication skills. For further details email admin@can.uk.com or send a SAE (£1) to:
Closing date for final submissions is 7th July 2005 at 5pm. Also on this week...John Paul Zaccarini performs the 2002 Total Theatre Award winner at Edinburgh Festival Throat - "a witty and sexy synthesis of circus, physical comedy/cabaret and dance with something profound to say about masculine identity and vulnerability" - at the Contact Theatre on 9, 10, 17 and 18 June.
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