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Dateline: 6th July, 2008
Autumn/Winter at The Lowry The Lowry in Salford has recently released its brochure of productions in its two theatres and other spaces for the period September to December 2008. After last year's King Cotton, the Lowry has once again taken on a producing role for a new production. Local writer Kevin Fegan has written Fireflies about two characters in crisis on a Salford housing estate, which will be directed as a 'multimedia' production by Noreen Kershaw and performed in November. Major theatre companies visiting Salford include the National Theatre with an adaptation of The Waves by Virginia Woolf, the Royal Shakespeare Company with Romeo and Juliet, Frantic Assembly with its modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello and Druid from Ireland with Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Garry Hynes. There are star-studded casts for Tim Firth's adaptation of his own screenplay of Calendar Girls with Lynda Bellingham, Patricia Hodge, Elaine C Scott, Gaynor Faye and Brigit Forsyth, and Alan Bennett's Enjoy, directed by Christopher Luscombe with Alison Steadman and David Troughton. Tim Crouch will perform his acclaimed England in the galleries at the Lowry, Stella Grundy revives her role as the Velvet Underground singer and model in Nico Icon Play and Slava's Snowshow will make a return visit. There will also be be productions of the musicals Our House, written by Tim Firth using the songs of 80s pop band Madness, and the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins classic West Side Story. There will be performances of Tony and Twizzle — The Glory Years from comedy duo Lipservice, Lord Arthur's Bed by Martin Lewton from Theatre North, A Song for the Lovers by Sarah McDonald Hughes from Monkeywood, Mile End from Analogue, My Grandfather's Great War from James Seabright, The Bad One from Women & Theatre On Tour and Oh Whistle... and A Pleasing Terror, two ghost stories by M R James from Nunkie Theatre Company. Over the Christmas period, Lorna Luft stars as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, classic British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! is brought to the stage and Big Wooden Horse Theatre Company will perform The Night Before Christmas by Adam Bampton-Smith. Theatre for children includes The Sun Has Got His Hat On from Blue Sky Theatre, M6 with Best Friends by Dot Wood and Mary Cooper, Basil Brush's High Skool Mania, Cutlery Wars from James Campbell — who also brings his acclaimed Comedy 4 Kids to the Lowry — Kazzum with The Boy Who Grew Flowers and Rapunzel and the Tower of Doom from Theatre of Widdershins. Opera North will return to the Lowry with Tosca by Puccini, I Capuleti E I Montecchi by Bellini and Of Thee I Sing by Gershwin. Again there is a strong dance element to the Lowry's programme, including a return of Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands, adapted from the film, and Rambert Dance Company's Eternal Light Tour 2008. The Australian Ballet makes its Lowry debut with Swan Lake, Hofesh Schechter's In Your Rooms and Uprising are brought by the Dance Touring Partnership, George Piper Dances present Ballet Boyz: Greatest Hits! and Jasmin Vardimon celebrates her company's tenth anniversary with the retrospective piece Yesterday, featuring duets, solos and motifs from Justitia, Park, Lullaby, Tete, Lurelurelure and Ticklish. David Chadderton
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