NW Productions

Published: 12 May 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Manchester Dance Consortium's Platform 0.2 at Contact
Lancashire Youth Dance Festival at the Dukes
Mugabeland! at The Lowry

Manchester Dance Consortium presents Platform 0.2 at the Contact in Oxford Road on Tuesday night.

There are work-in-progress performances from: Sister Elements (Sarah Sayeed) - Sufi in the City; URBAN Conceptz Theatre - The Freedom of Freewill; Joshua Hubbard - Crown of Thorns.

A new generation of dancers will be bringing their talent to the stage in Lancaster next week.

They’ll be taking part in the fifth annual Lancashire Youth Dance Festival, staged at The Dukes on Friday and Saturday, giving hundreds of the region’s most talented young dancers the opportunity to perform in a professional venue.

Next Friday is your chance to singalong to the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Lancaster Grand Theatre.

The camp classic that has entertained audiences for more than 30 years presents an opportunity for the audience to become the celebrities.

A live performance of one of the most romantic ballets by the world-famous Russian Bolshoi Ballet will be screened at The Dukes cinema in Lancaster on Sunday afternoon.

A brand-new stage adaptation of ITV’s classic sitcom Rising Damp premières at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre next week, directed by and featuring original cast member Don Warrington.

It runs from Tuesday to Saturday and the following week is at The Lowry in Salford

Dr Frankenstein's Travelling Freak Show, is presented by Tin Shed Theatre Co at Manchester’s Three Minute Theatre next Friday and Saturday.

It takes Mary Shelly's Gothic novel and twists it into a cocktail of grotesque-circus-show-freakery!

ABBA Forever—like the names suggests—is an evening full of the hits of the Swedish supergroup.

Catch it all at the Opera House in Manchester next Thursday.

You wait all year... then two Shaolin shows come along together, on the same night!

In Sutra, at The Lowry in Salford next Tuesday and Wednesday, 17 Buddhist monks take a leap of faith in what is claimed as the first authentic collaboration between Western artists and the 1,500 year old Shaolin Temple.

Meanwhile the Shaolin Warriors 80-date UK theatre tour comes to Manchester Opera House on Tuesday night.

The Shaolin Warriors are also at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Sunday May 26.

Following its hit trilogy of soldiers' stories, including the award-winning God Wept And The Devil Laughed, Come As You Arts Northwest returns to The Lowry with another play in its series about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Set in a bar, Mugabeland! tells the true story of those caught up in Robert Mugabe’s rise to power in Zimbabwe and the difficult aftermath of his rule.

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