Manchester's Library Theatre has announced the line-up for its seventh annual Re:Play Festival, which celebrates the pick of the Fringe in Manchester and Salford over the previous year.
There are two productions from this year's 24:7 Theatre Festival: Rob Ward and Martin Jameson's highly-acclaimed Away From Home and Catherine Manford and Sarah Molyneux's children's show Billy, the Monster and Me!.
One Hand Clapping as an adaptation of the 1961 novem by Anthony Burgess presented by House of Orphans and The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, whereas The Man Who Woke Up Dead from Square Peg Theatre is influenced by George Orwell and film noir.
The Rise and Fall of a Northern Star is Stella Grundy’s one-woman performance about the life and music of the infamous MADchester icon Tracy Star, presented by Stella Productions. RedBobble Theatre Company presents a verbatim theatre pieces challenging the myths about what it means to seek asylum in To Walk In Your Shoes.
Hyde Festival Theatre Company revives Stephen Berkoff's black comedy Lunch, and, in a departure from the rest of the programme, there is more comedy in the dark, surreal and anarchic sketches of All Our Friends Are Dead from Norris & Parker.
The festival will run at The Lowry in Salford from 20 January to 1 February 2014. The full programme us on the Library Theatre web site.
There will be no Re:Play Festival in 2015 due to the company's move to its new joint home—called Home—with Cornerhouse cinema next summer, but there are plans for it to return from 2016.