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Dateline: 20th June, 2008
Not Part Of Festival Line-up This year's Not Part Of Festival, labelled as a 'trailblazer festival' as it prepares for a bigger event next year to run alongside the second Manchester International Festival, has announced its programme of theatre, comedy, music, poetry, film and other events. On the theatre front, the festival opens with Our House at the Robert Powell Theatre in Salford University, telling the stories of seven women hiding from an abusive past in a safe house. At the Adelphi Studio, also in Salford University, Call Mr Robeson features songs, speeches and events in the life of the famous black American actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. At the John Thaw Studio in the University of Manchester, A Galway Girl takes us through thirty-five years of a married couple's life - he a gregarious Dubliner and she a refined Galway girl - in a one-act play. At the Adelphi, an event titled 'Two Plays, Two Writers, One Cast' includes A Little Fallacy — when they are promised luck in love by a charmed miniature phallus in their cracker, three young women are visited in the night by The Perfect Man — and Slag's Wall — three women meet for the first time in years to do what they used to do: laugh, drink White Lightning and bitch. At Revolution on Oxford Road, Small Pleasures from Aha Theatre Co is a commentary on society's attitude to alcohol, while at Matt and Phred's Jazz Club on Tib Street, Hovis In Wonderland is a play for voices adapted by Dave Morgan from the works of the late Hovis Presley. Below the Belt by Mia Darlone at the Waldorf Pub examines the joys of incorporating an array of objects into your sex life, and at Taurus Bar, Fish Out of Water Theatre Co presents Markus, Laney & Lou. The Festival runs from 3 to 12 July. The full programme can be downloaded from the Festival web site at www.notpartof.org/. David Chadderton
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