Start your weekend with an eclectic mix of theatre, dance, art, music and storytelling in Lancaster on September 6, with the city’s latest First Friday events.
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Following George Formby’s rise from awkward stable boy to one of Britain’s biggest stars, a unique one-man performance offers a fascinating slice of his life at The Lowry in Salford next week.
Opening to critical acclaim at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Formby is not only a celebration of one of Britain’s greatest performers, but a funny, touching and thoughtful look at the life of an essentially ordinary man with an extraordinary talent.
An intriguing new play which examines the choice between heroism and compromise comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre next Wednesday, until September 21.
Following a première at this year’s Latitude Festival and a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, There Has Possibly Been An Incident by award-winning writer Chris Thorpe runs in The Studio.
The multi-award winning Blood Brothers comes to The Lowry in Salford next week after recently becoming one of only three musicals to surpass 10,000 performances in London’s West End.
Maureen Nolan, best-known as a member of the all-conquering girl band The Nolans, revives her role as Mrs Johnstone in Bill Kenwright’s production.
The Octagon Theatre in Bolton will open its new season with An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley, directed by David Thacker, next week.
Thacker has deliberately paired the play with the second production of the season, Long Day’s Journey Into Night by one of America’s most famous playwrights, Eugene O’Neill.
The actors who play the Birling family members have been through-cast to play the Tyrone family in a play that follows similar themes, despite obvious differences in terms of geography and setting.