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Dateline: 11th May, 2008 News from the North West
Not Part Of Festival wants acts and eventsFollowing last year's Not Part Of Manchester International Festival, running alongside the real MIF, and January's Not Part Of New Year's Eve, the Not Part Of crew has announced a week-long festival for July which, as it falls between the biennial MIFs, is simply titled Not Part Of 2008. The festival will bring together various events happening throughout Manchester between 2 and 12 July under a common banner to give them access to greater publicity opportunities and mutual support. Beth McCan, the Festival's director, said, "We are looking for artists, creators, venues, acts, promoters, etc who want to be involved with a festival that will not profit from them but provide a platform for them to promote themselves and all the other artists involved. We place no artistic constraints on creators other than they take the Not Part Of Oath to support all the other artists that have done the same. "If you already have an event on in and around Manchester city centre between 3 and 12 July then we would be delighted to hear from you. If you’ve an idea for an event then we’ll give you all the help and advice we can. Instead of being one event in isolation, be part of something bigger and stronger; be Not Part Of." The organisers have already announced that they will hold another event next year once again to run alongside the official MIF from 2 to 18 July 2009. For more information, see the Festival web site at www.notpartof.org. If you are interested in taking part or helping out, e-mail gareth@notpartof.org or ring 07856 977 329.
Manchester International Arts programme revealedThe programme of outdoor events and festivals for this summer from Manchester International Arts has been announced. It will open with the Liverpool Streets Ahead Festival, running in the city centre from 24 to 26 May. June will see the Feast! Picnic by the Lake in Platt Fields, Manchester and Windermere Over Water in Bowness, Cumbria. In July, MIA will bring its Carpet of Flowers to Albert Square in Manchester, plus Urban Moves will also take place in Manchester's city centre. Back in Cumbria, August will see various events in South Lakes under the Lakes Alive banner and Mintfest will take place in Kendal, plus Nicole et Martin Circus from Switzerland will be at Platt Fields in Manchester.
Evita casting announcedThe casting has been announced for the Bill Kenwright tour of Rice and Lloyd Webber's Evita, which will visit the Opera House in Manchester from the end of June. The title role will be played by Louise Dearman, who has previously been in Joseph, Grease, Kiss Me Kate and Guys and Dolls. Che will be played by finalist from TV's Any Dream Will Do Seamus Cullen, with Mark Heenehan, who has been in the films The Road to Damascus, Spy Game and Thunderpants, as Juan Peron. Newcomer James Waud will play Magaldi. The production will run in Manchester from 23 June to 5 July.
NW productionsKirov Ballet from the Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg returns to the Lowry in Salford this week from 13 to 17 May with two full-length ballets — George Ballanchine's Jewels and Marius Petipa's Don Quixote — plus a gala evening of shorter pieces. Northern Ballet Theatre brings David Nixon's Olivier-nominated dance version of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the Palace Theatre in Manchester from 14 to 17 May, set amongst the members of a touring dance company on a sleeper train travelling from London to Edinburgh. As part of the Queer Up North Festival, Ridiculusmus presents Tough Time, Nice Time at the Library Theatre in Manchester, written and performed by David Woods and Jon Haynes, in which two German 'sexual adventurers' sit in an oversized tub in a Bangkok spa exchanging outrageous stories, from 14 to 17 May. Also for QUN, Ivo Dimchev from Bulgaria makes his UK debut with Lili Handel and Marisa Canesky performs Magic War, both on 17 May at Manchester's Green Room. Rough Sketch Comedy Club, which originally opened a year ago at Castbar, opens at its new venue, Taurus Bar on Canal Street, Manchester on 16 May hosted by Kerry Leigh of Laughing Cows with The Scarlet Pimps and Pippa Evans, plus female double acts Not2Bad and Williamson and Jones: Brides of Comedy. Playhouse Disney Live! brings young audiences into the colourful worlds of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, My Friends Tigger & Pooh and Handy Manny at the Opera House in Manchester from 16 to 18 May. Gloves Off Productions presents Alternative Medicine by Patricia Hartshorne and Michael Elphick from 14 to 18 May at Studio Salford. Meet Mrs Harris, the cleaner, who is game for anything. Join Enid Pringle, the receptionist who isn’t — but whose eyes are opening. Hull Truck brings artistic director John Godber's production of his play Our House to the Lowry in Salford from 12 to 17 May. After living in the same house for 45 years, May is packing up her belongings and heading off for a new life in sunny Spain. Oldham Coliseum opens its production of Dick Barton Special Agent, adapted from the radio adventure series with tongue firmly in cheek by Phil Willmott, from 15 May to 7 June, directed by artistic director Kevin Shaw. At the Everyman in Liverpool, Hoipolloi presents Hugh Hughes in Story of a Rabbit from 13 to 17 May. When Hugh finds his neighbour’s rabbit lying dead in his garden, the only sensible thing to do is to put it in a box. But it doesn’t fit. As he puzzles over what to do he starts to wonder how much of life disappears once we die... Aerial theatre company Ockam's Razor will perform its combination of circus, dance and visual theatre in Arc, Memento Mori & Every Action... at the Nuffield Theatre in Lancaster on 13 May. Bette Bourne performs Rock, the story of Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson and his creation of Hollywood hunk Rock Hudson from gay actor Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., at the Unity in Liverpool from 13 to 17 May. There will also be a special event presented by Professor Richard Dyer, entitled 'Now We Know He Was Gay', examining Hudson's films on 14 May. At the Contact Theatre in Manchester, Glow from Chunky Move offers audiences an intimate experience on 14 and 15 May as, beneath the glow of a sophisticated video tracking system, a lone dancer mutates in and out of human form. NW theatre jobsOldham Coliseum is looking for a full-time wardrobe assistant. For more information, download an application pack from www.coliseum.org.uk, e-mail mail@coliseum.org.uk or telephone Anne-Louise Jones on 0161 624 1731. Applications must be received by 12 noon on 30 May. Mainstream Theatre Arts is looking for part-time drama teachers with experience of teaching primary-aged children who can also teach some basic singing and dance for teaching in primary schools right across Greater Manchester and north Cheshire. Send a CV as soon as possible to info@mainstreamstudios.co.uk or to head office at 28 Reuben Street, Stockport SK4 1PS. 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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