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Dateline: 5th October, 2008 News from the North West
The Round at the Dukes opensThe new performance space at the Dukes in Lancaster, The Round, opens this week with a production of The Bomb by Kevin Dyer. The new 230-seat in-the-round performance space is the result of a major development of the former studio space, funded mostly by the North West Development Agency with a large contribution from Arts Council England. It has a new entrance on Moor Street and a new reception and, crucially, a soundproofed wall between it and the main space so that performances can run in the two venues simultaneously. Director Joe Sumsion said, "With the two main spaces able to operate simultaneously, we will be able to plan a truly diverse range of work, with our in-house productions, great visiting theatre and the best emerging local artists", adding, "We’re sure that audiences will appreciate the unique qualities of The Round, just as they do in Manchester at the Royal Exchange and in London at The Globe." The first production in The Round, The Bomb, opens on 9 October and runs until 25 October.
Royal Exchange and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse TMA nomineesTwo major north west theatres have each been nominated for three awards in the Theatrical Management Association's 2008 theatre awards. Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre has nominations for best performance in a play for Brenda Blethyn in The Glass Menagerie, best supporting performance in a play for Kate O'Flynn in The Children's Hour and best lighting design for Mick Hughes, also for The Children's Hour. Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres have been nominated for best musical production for Once Upon A Time at the Adelphi, best new play for Toes by Esther Wilson in association with Shared Experience and best set design for Christopher Woods for Once Upon A Time at the Adelphi. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 26 October at Hampstead Theatre.
Not Part Of Festival get-togetherThe organisers of the Not Part Of Festival, which next year will run alongside the second Manchester International Festival, have invited potential participants to a get-together on 8 October at Font Bar, New Wakefield Street, Manchester between 7 and 9pm. There will be opportunities to meet other artists who may be taking part in the Festival and to talk to the directors about how to get involved. Artists, creators, promoters and even people who do not yet know how they could be involved are all welcome. Anyone who wishes to attend is asked to contact Beth McCann at beth@notpartof.org.
RET Special FX events announcedThe next round of the Royal Exchange Theatre's Special FX series of free early evening entertainment on Fridays has been announced, promising stand-up comedy, belly dancing and family-friendly fun for Halloween. Musician Arun Ghosh, now a regular at these events, is to perform once again, the Northern Belly Company returns with its Arabic dance, John Goodfellow comperes Comic FX as part of the Manchester Comedy Festival including Des Sharples, Bob Darwin and Sol Bernstein and there will be an evening of comic poetry featuring Julian Daniel and Dominic Berry. For Halloween on 31 October, performer Ben Faulks presents the half term entertainment Vegetable Nanny, a tale of a family of vegetables on a day out for families and young children, at the slightly earlier time of 5:30 to 6:30pm. All other events are from 6 to 7pm in the Great Hall, with reduced prices on drinks at the bar and savings in the Craft Shop between 5:30 and 7pm.
NW productionsAt Manchester's Green Room, enter the world of Mireille & Mathieu (is it a junk shop, a car boot sale or a children’s playroom?) for sixty minutes of mayhem where nothing is logical but it all makes sense in ARM on 10 and 11 October. On a flea-market Mireille & Mathieu seem to be fooling around, but the objects they pick up hold stories. Choreographer and musician Hofesh Shechter brings In Your Rooms and Uprising to the Lowry in Salford on 9 and 10 October. Also at the Lowry, Monkeywood Theatre performs A Song for the Lovers by Sarah McDonald Hughes, reworked from a piece it performed in the 2006 24:7 Theatre Festival, from 9 to 11 October in the studio. Over the course of one night in a deserted club in Manchester, three desperate characters search for an escape route that is drifting further and further away from them. Oldham Coliseum will present an adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Travels With My Aunt from 9 to 25 October. Henry is a retired Bank Clerk, whose only pleasure in life is tending to his precious dahlias, but an unexpected reunion with his sprightly Aunt Augusta calls on him to locate an inner adventurer he never knew he had. Hope Street Limited presents Time, a collision of theatre, visual art, electro funk, film and projection, at the Unity in Liverpool from 9 to 11 October. At the Gates of Gaza by Juliet Gilkes Romero is brought to the Contact Theatre in Manchester by Midlands-based Big Creative Ideas on 7 and 8 October. Stranded in the battlefields of the Holy Land during the Great War, a battalion of West Indian volunteers fights for the Empire, the King and the Motherland. Their long search for belonging falls apart as the hopes of young lives, both black and white, explode and shatter as betrayal and race take their toil. Also at the Contact poet, musician and DJ Charlie Dark performs his own autobiographical one-man show, Have Box Will Travel, chronicling his life from the emergence of the hip hop culture he has lived and loved to the onset of fatherhood, from 9 to 11 October. Dark also brings Blacktronica to the Contact for a free club night on 11 October from 9PM till late. Kevin Dyer's The Bomb, about the relationship and first meeting between Jo Berry, whose father was killed by the 1984 Brighton bomb, and Patrick Magee who planted the bomb, runs in the new performance space The Round at The Dukes in Lancaster from 9 to 25 October, directed by Joe Sumsion. North west theatre jobsThe Palace and Opera House Theatres in Manchester are looking for a press and media relations officer. A full job description can be downloaded from mail.live-store.com/images/Venues/Manchester/press_media_officer.pdf and an application form from mail.live-store.com/images/Venues/Manchester/application_form.pdf, which should be completed and returned to anna.izza@livenation.co.uk by 12 noon on 10 October. The Lowry in Salford is looking for a theatres marketing executive. To apply, send a CV with a covering letter to the Recruitment Department, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ or by e-mail to recruitment@thelowry.com by 10 October. Bolton's Octagon Theatre needs a deputy production manager to assist the head of production. For further details and an application form, telephone 01204 529407 or e-mail info@octagonbolton.co.uk. The closing date for applications is 24 October. The Octagon is also looking for a part-time ticket office assistant. For an application form and further details, telephone 01204 529407 or e-mail info@octagonbolton.co.uk. The closing date for applications is 13 October. PANDA (Performing Arts Network and Development Agency) has a vacancy for a project officer for young people to review current services, test some pilot events and identify ways to embed services for young people into its portfolio of work. The job description, application form and equal opportunities form are available to download from www.panda-arts.org.uk/projectofficer. To apply, return the forms with a covering letter to Sarah Barker by e-mail to sarah@panda-arts.org.uk or by post to Private & Confidential Job Application, Recruitment, PANDA, Contact, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6JA by 12 noon on 16 October. 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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