NW Productions

Published: 12 July 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Away From Home at 24:7
Cissie and Ada return to Blackpool Grand
Gambit at Briton's Protection

The Young, a play by Faro Productions, confronts society’s obsession with youth and beauty, and is the first-ever devised play at Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival.

It opens at the The Basement, 20 Dale Street (entrance on Little Lever Street), Manchester, next Saturday.

Similarly, Away From Home—a one man show about a male escort, Kyle, who is hired by a Premiership footballer—is at New Century House, Corporation Street, from next Friday.

Details: www.247theatrefesitval.co.uk/shows

Innovative drama with music, comedy and digital media is the order of the day in Diamonds Aren’t Forever.

It’s the annual showcase for the talents of Lancaster’s Shattering Images Theatre Company which features young adults with learning disabilities, next Wednesday and Friday.

Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org

A little piece of theatre history returns to Blackpool Grand Theatre next week with the production of Cissie and Ada: An Hysterical Rectomy.

It recreates the moment when, on the same stage, comedian Les Dawson and sidekick Roy Barraclough performed their two comedy creations live in a theatre.

North West professional playwrights collective The Alligator Club is set to stage a festival of short plays inspired by music at The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre on Friday and Saturday next week.

In the dark days of the Cold War, the two greatest chess players in the world have an encounter which tears their friendship apart.

Following a positive reception at initial sell-out performances, The Gambit is being taken on a fringe festival including Briton’s Protection pub in Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday.

Honest, the story of one man trying to navigate his way through a minefield of motley characters, is a new production from the Library Theatre Community Company in Manchester.

It’s at the International Anthony Burgess Centre, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, Cambridge Street, Manchester Monday and Tuesday

Details: www.librarytheatre.com

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