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Dateline: 13th July, 2008 News from the North West
Exchange Coward production extendsThe Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester has extended its production of Noël Coward's comedy Hay Fever by a week to 16 August. According to the theatre's executive director Paul Clay, the extension is due to "the overwhelming demand for tickets, and so it is with great pleasure that we are able to schedule eight additional performances. It is obviously proving the perfect summer entertainment." The show is directed by one of the Exchange's artistic directors, Greg Hersov, and stars Belinda Lang, Ben Keaton and Lysette Anthony.
Everyman new writing festival opensLiverpool Everyman's annual new writing festival, now extended to two weeks, opens this week and runs from 15 to 26 July. There will be seminars, workshops, discussions and rehearsed readings, including workshops from big-name writers such as Simon Stephens, Moira Buffini, Jonathan Harvey and Tim Firth as well as with Frantic Asssembly and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. There will also be collaborations with Nabokov Theatre Company, Paines Plough, Live Theatre Newcastle and The Miniaturists. A brochure of all the events can be downloaded from the Everyman web site or picked up at the theatre.
NW productionsPopular children's author Roald Dahl's book George's Marvellous Medicine, about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper, is brought to the stage in a production by Birmingham Stage Company at the Palace Theatre in Manchester from 15 to 19 July. Northern Gap Theatre Company performs Mercy by Lin Coghlan at the Lowry in Salford on 14 and 15 July. Deccy and Mac want to disappear. Cookie wants his mum. Terry and Jean are running away together. Rory is just running. White dust is falling, Manchester’s sinking and it’s too late for regrets. At the Unity in Liverpool, Peter Mortimer's play Riot tells the story of the Yemeni seamen’s riots in South Shields in 1930 and runs from 18 to 19 July. 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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