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Dateline: 23rd December, 2007
New Season at the Library Manchester's Library Theatre opens 2008 with its first Re:Play Festival in January, which revives new plays that have been seen in non-traditional performance spaces around Manchester during 2007. The company's first home-grown production of the year is Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett, directed by artistic director Chris Honer, with George Costigan and David Fielder as Vladimir and Estragon, David Neilson as Lucky and Russell Dixon as Pozzo. Associate director Roger Haines will direct Bryony Lavery's controversial Frozen in April, bringing together a mother whose daughter has gone missing, an American academic studying the motivations of a serial killer and a loner on the hunt for a thrill. The season will end with Chris Honer's production of the north west premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's seventieth play, If I Were You. Out of Joint visits the theatre in March with a new play by David Edgar, Testing the Echo, directed by Matthew Dunster, focusing on today's multicultural and multiracial Britain as seen through the eyes of people awaiting British citizenship. Manchester comedy duo Lip Service will return by popular demand with its production of Jane Bond, and, as part of the Queer Up North Festival, Ridiculusmus will perform Tough Time, Nice Time and Bette Bourne will perform The Fairy Godfather of Hollywood. Veteran comedian Barry Cryer will bring his show Barry Cryer—Still Alive, Celebrating Linda Smith is a tribute to the great comedian who died last year and Bob Kingdom will return with Dylan Thomas: Return Journey. Tickets are on sale now for all productions.
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