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Dateline: 11th July, 2010
Autumn and Winter in Salford The Lowry in Salford has released the brochure for its autumn and winter season, although much of its contents has already been announced. The big opening production in August is Corrie!—complete with exclamation mark—which is a Jonathan Harvey-scripted stage tribute to fifty years of Coronation Street featuring highlights of the popular TV soap. In September, Druid Theatre Company from Dublin returns with Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie, Hull Truck brings its old favourite Teechers by John Godber and Metra Theatre performs 3 Sisters which combines Chekhov with improvisation and is performed on a boat on the Bridgewater Canal with an audience capacity of eight people. The National Theatre brings Alan Bennett's latest play The Habit of Art in October, which imagines a meeting between composer Benjamin Britten and poet W H Auden, and Headlong Theatre brings Lucy Prebble's acclaimed play Enron about one of the more famous financial scandals of recent years. Also in October, Hit Me! portrays punk singer Ian Dury and Bob Golding's much-lauded portrayal of one of Britain's best-loved comics comes to Salford in Tim Whitnall's play Morecambe. Nunkie Theatre again tackles the ghost stories of M R James with a trilogy of one-man shows, and Filter and the RSC collaborate on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Caroline Clegg and Kevin Fegan have collaborated on an adaptation of Slave for Feelgood Productions about child slavery in Sudan. There are some big musicals coming up including Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita, Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's Chess and Steve Brown and Justin Greene's Spend Spend Spend about Yorkshire housewife Viv Nicholson who won and blew a fortune on the pools in 1961. The main Christmas production from The Lowry will be Peter Pan, plus Big Wooden Horse will perform The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Children's productions include How the Koala Learnt to Hug from The People's Theatre Company, The Paper Washi Wish from A Thousand Cranes, The Night Pirates from Theatre Hullaballoo, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Room on the Broom, When We Lived in Uncle's Hat from Tutti Frutti and Sunflowers and Sheds from M6. The Studio will again feature small-scale productions including Love and Other Magic Tricks from Standnotamazed, Lecture Notes on a Death Scene from Analogue, Territory from Fiddy West, Key to the Garden from Hunt and Laurence, The Trial of Sister Bigass and other Renaissance Farces from Travelling Players Company, Stripped from Scamp, The Not So Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo from Vox Motus, The Dinner Lady Man from Something and Nothing, Boh from Sanpapié, Lysistrata from Actors of Dionysus, Sweeney Todd from Finger in the Pie and Joshua from Hot Buckle. Opera North will return with The Gypsy Bible by Joe Townsend and Alasdair Middleton, The Merry Widow by Franz Léhar, The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten and The Adventures of Pinocchio by Jonathan Dove and Alasdair Middleton. Library Theatre Company, having just moved out of their former home, will perform Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The dance programme includes a world première from Rambert and Matthew Bourne's Cinderella set in Second World War London, plus performances from Ad Hoc, balletLORENT and Srishti. Tickets for all events are now on sale.
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