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Dateline: 10th January, 2010
New Season at Contact Manchester's Contact Theatre has announced the first part of of a season it is referring to as "We Are Ten" as its current building opened in 1999, although the company has been resident on the same site for much longer than this. Hercules Productions kicks off 2010 with a preview of Space Dread by Shameless star Marcus Hercules about a young rebel who is sent to the end of time; a full production is promised for 2011. Uprising is another preview of work to come, giving a taste of forthcoming shows and events from Eggs Collective, Gathered Earth, Shot In The Dark, Contact Playback, Mixed Movement and Young Identity. The first full production comes in February with Julie McNamara's Crossings about a fifteen-year-old, pregnant teenager who shelters on an old ferry boat and is challenged by voices from the distant past questioning everything she holds dear. A Night on the Tiles claims to lift the veil on the seedy world of underground, high-stakes, gangster Scrabble, directed by Montserrat Gili of Dende Collective with dramaturgy by hip hop artist Will Power. Local actor and director Wyllie Longmore directs Burnt by Conor McKee, which explores the secret bargain at the heart of every relationship. 20 Stories High and Birmingham Rep collaborate with Contact on Ghost Boy, the story of a boy whose life changes forever after an “incident” on the back field; he holds a deep, dark secret of Ghost Boy. Award-winning political comedy The Rebel Cell stars rappers Baba Brinkman and Dizraeli. The life and work of singer Ian Dury are celebrated in Raspberry from Fittings Multimedia Arts, Sounds of Progress and Tron Theatre. Why Me? by Ben Moores from Just Add Water promises to bring back our childish inquisitiveness and sense of wonder. The season ends with a revival of Crying in the Chapel, Strangeways – An Inside Account by Stafford, Coghill and Clarke ten years after it was first performed highlighting the conditions and the treatment of the inmates before, during and after the Strangeways riots of 1990. David Chadderton
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