Candoco Dance Company, the contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers who recently performed at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, will be bringing the evening of work Turning 20 to Live at LICA at Lancaster University next Friday.
The Beginning at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre next Wednesday is the second in a trilogy of work inspired by Shakespearean stage directions performed by award-winning writer and performance maker Michael Pinchbeck.
Horse + Bamboo presents The Nightingale at the Grand in Blackpool next week.
This classic Hans Christian Andersen tale is brought to life on Wednesday and Thursday.
Small Things presents The Resonance of Seclusion at the Lowry in Salford next Thursday.
It tells an extraordinary story inspired by one manʼs unstoppable drive to create and the equally unstoppable support of his family that made his artistic life a reality.
Theatre company 20 Stories High presents Whole, a gritty, funny and uncompromising new play at the Octagon in Bolton next week.
Whole is recommended for ages 13 and over and will be at the Octagon Theatre Bolton from Monday to Friday.
It’s also at The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday March 25 and the Contact Theatre in Manchester March 28.
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre is set to stage the world premiere of Bruntwood Prize winning play Three Birds by Janice Okoh from next Wednesday.
Three Birds is her second full-length play for theatre but she has also had work produced for radio.
Details: www.royalexchange.co.uk
Rabbitskin, at The Lowry next Friday, is a new hard-hitting monologue by Dominic Grace that takes contemporary issues such as mental health, violence and ‘problem families’ and makes them real and personal through the character of Joe, an intelligent, articulate, troubled teenage boy.
Wonderstruck, by Sally Lawton, opens at The Houldsworth Rep Theatre in Manchester on Monday.
It’s Lawton’s tenth play and is a twisted and messy love story.
Organisers of the Words by the Water festival in Keswick will once again be offering free tickets for young people aged 17 to 25.
The festival runs from March 1-12 at Theatre by the Lake and features a wide range of speakers including Sandi Toksvig, James Naughtie, Claire Tomalin, Jack Straw, Carol Ann Duffy, Alexander McCall Smith and Tracy Chevalier.