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Dateline: 30th October, 2009
New Season at The Lowry Salford's Lowry Centre has announced the first part of its tenth anniversary year programme as the brochure for January to April 2010 is officially launched. Long-running West End ghost story hit The Woman In Black, adapted by the late Stephen Mallatratt from the novel by Susan Hill, uses just two actors and clever staging and sound effects to send a collective shiver down the audience's spines. Tim Firth's adaptation of his own popular film Calendar Girls, which sold out on its last two visits to The Lowry and has also enjoyed a short West End run, will return to Salford, this time starring Lynda Bellingham, Gemma Atkinson, Judith Barker, Debbie Chazen, Letitia Dean and Jan Harvey. Clive Mantle – Dr Mike Barratt in Casualty and Holby City – will star as Tommy Cooper in John Fisher's play about the great British clown Jus' Like That! A Night Out With Tommy Cooper and Kenneth Williams will also be recreated on the Lowry stage in Stop Messing About: The Kenneth Williams Extravaganza set during a live Round The Horne recording with Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick, written by Johhnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke. Spike Milligan's war memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall is adapted for the stage by Ben Power and director Tim Caroll. Lyric Hammersmith will bring Chekhov's Three Sisters directed by Sean Holmes in collaboration with theatre company Filter and fellow acclaimed London theatre company Donmar Warehouse will bring Lanford Wilson's portrait of two suburban American couples Serenading Louie. Yorkshire theatre company Northern Broadsides will perform Euripides's horrific tragedy Medea in a new adaptation by poet Tom Paulin directed by artistic director Barrie Rutter. Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles is still in the brochure even though the tour has been cancelled as we reported last week, but there is a rare chance to see the classic 70s character musical A Chorus Line with music by Marvin Hamlisch. In dance, Carlos Acosta returns to Manchester for a one-off special appearance with Ballet Nacional de Cuba during their Salford run of Magia de la Danza, a showcase of excepts from ballets including The Nutcracker, Coppelia and Swan Lake plus a full production of Swan Lake. Acosta will appear in one performance of the former to dance the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote. Matthew Bourne resurrects his famous 1995 Swan Lake featuring an all-male swan chorus and Birmingham Royal Ballet will perform Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty. Akram Khan company presents Bahok, originally a collaboration with National Ballet of China, Motionhouse presents Scattered, Balletboyz will perform The Talent, Scottish Dance Theatre will perform NQR, there will be a performance from 'next big thing' Los Vivancos – 7 Hermanos, Candoco Dance Company will present Triple Bill and David Toole will perform Extra-Ordinary. In the world of opera, Opera North will return with its productions of Puccini's La Bohème, Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore and Mozart's Così fan tutte and Opera della Luna will perform Die Fledermaus. The Chinese State Circus will brings its combination of acrobats, gymnasts and martial artists, The 7 Fingers will perform its acrobatic show Traces and So & So Circus will perform the play The Hot Dots directed by Tamasha's Kristine Landon-Smith. Studio productions include Be My Baby from Northface Theatre Company, Fencing for Losers from Ignition Stage, The Collector from Pronto Productions, Sherlock Holmes – The Last Act, To Break A Man from Tarry Theatre, Me, Mum and Dusty Springfield, Muse from Fecund Theatre, Meeting Joe Strummer from The Future is Unwritten, Superstitious Mountain from O-Region, Beating Berlusconi from Turf Love, Maine Road from Monkeywood, Cling To Me Like Ivy from Birmingham Rep, The Man Who Was Hamlet from Vital Theatre, Top of the World from Spike Theatre, The Rape of Lucrece, Knife Edge from Hard Graft, Je Suis Dead from Fool's Proof, Clunk from The Suitcase Ensemble, Islands from Théâtre Sans Frontières and Shivoham from Milap. Theatre for young people includes The Big Enormous Present from Pied Piper, Macbeth from Shakespeare 4 Kidz, Telling Tales from East Midlands Children's Theatre Consortium. One, Two, Hullaballoo from Blue Sky, children's TV favourite Peppa Pig in Peppa Pig's Party and Tall Stories with popular picture book character The Gruffalo. There is also a full programme of comedy and music alongside the theatre events. David Chadderton
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