Liverpool Playhouse Studio is set to transport audiences to apartheid-era South Africa with Sizwe Banzi is Dead, a thrilling tale of identity and freedom from Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 June. It follows a sell-out run at London’s Young Vic.
Undeterred by superstition, or the weather, Lytham Hall next week hosts the first of four open-air plays. Friday the 13th sees Chapterhouse Theatre Company launch the season, and their own summer tour, in the grounds of the Georgian landmark, with Richard Main’s production of Jane Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility.
The Two Worlds of Charlie F, which was first performed in January 2012 at two charity fund-raising comes to the Opera House in Manchester from Monday to Saturday next week.
Best known for her role as Debbie Gallagher in Channel 4’s Shameless, Rebecca Ryan will bring to life Shelagh Delaney’s older-than-her-years teenage lead Jo in A Taste of Honey at Salford’s Lowry arts centre this week (hear our podcast episode featuring director Mark Babych).
Manchester’s newest venue may still be several months away from opening but that does not stop HOME making its mark on the city with the first of several site-specific performances over coming months. The world première of Angel Meadow is the first in a series of productions taking place around Manchester (hear our podcast episode featuring the cast and director).
After a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe and a 22-date national tour, a play returns, by popular demand, to Greater Manchester for one last show. Hidden is a taut, stylish and darkly funny two-hander which was first performed in 2011 and is at the Kings Arms in Salford next Tuesday.
Puffball—a new show which fuses storytelling and circus skills—comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from today to Monday. The production has been devised by a company of professional circus artists and young people, in collaboration with director Mark Storor.
The highly anticipated Liverpool Arab Arts Festival returns to the city, for an impressive nine-day-long festival. It brings an array of events from some of the finest Arabic artists the world has to offer.