A co-production between Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and the HighTide Festival opens a collection of home produced and visiting shows as part of the autumn/winter season in The Studio.
Brand-new productions from emerging writers and directors sit alongside productions from award-winning companies and artists.
Luke Norris’s Bruntwood prize winning play So Here We Are explores the complex and fragile nature of life in a faded English seaside town. With the kaleidoscopic memories of Adventure Land flickering in the background, Norris’s play paints a portrait of male relationships and childhood friendship in Essex’s Southend.
It premières on September 5 before transferring to HighTide from September 10 to 20. The production returns to Manchester from September 24 to October 10.
- The Studio will also host five other productions this season:
- The Chair, a Dissemble production in association with the Unicorn Theatre
- West Yorkshire Playhouse and LittleMighty will present Blake Remixed by Testament
- Chris Goode & Company, in association with the Royal Court, bring Men In The Cities, while at Christmas, younger audiences have the jazz-inspired The Ballad Of Rudy
- My Son & Heir, an examination of the guilt-ridden one-upmanship of mainstream baby culture plays Jan 29-30.