NW productions

Published: 4 June 2017
Reporter: David Upton

Operation Black Antler at HOME

Trainspotting on stage, at The Lowry in Salford next week, is a no-holds barred immersive play where the audience are part of the action.

Birmingham Stage Company—the producers of Horrible Histories, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Tom’s Midnight Garden—bring their world première of David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny to the Opera House in Manchester, from next Wednesday to Sunday.

Who Runs the World is less of a political question that an excuse for a party night when Bangkok’s fabulous Ladyboys return to the region. They’re in Manchester from next Friday, to June 24.

Operation Black Antler from interactive art pioneer company Blast Theory and site specific theatre company Hydrocracker and hosted by HOME Manchester will run at a secret location in Manchester, with start times staggered throughout the evening, from June 7 to 17.

Omnibus by Katie Mulgrew, the winner of the inaugural Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize, is the first play back at Liverpool’s newly refurbished Unity Theatre, running from June 7 to 17.

Stuff and Nonsense’s production of The Emperor’s New Clothes will be at The Lowry on June 11.

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