NW Productions

Published: 8 February 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Picture of Doreen Gray
Simon Armitage Credit: Paul Wolfgang Webster

Strawberry Blonde Curls present the UK Tour of Inside, a psychological drama that explores the effects of Stockholm Syndrome on a kidnap victim desperate to keep hope. Written and performed by Rosie MacPherson, it’s at the Octagon Bolton on Monday.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary year, The Circus of Horrors returns to its spiritual ‘home’ at Preston Guild Hall next Tuesday evening.

The audience of a new show coming to Lancaster next Friday will actually be encouraged to leave their mobile 'phones on during performances. I Wish I Was Lonely is a brand new interactive show where poet Hannah Jane Walker and theatre maker Chris Thorpe investigate what it means to participate in communication—or not.

The magic of circus plays a starring role in Blackpool’s annual Showzam! Festival—from February 14-18. This year’s event features Circus Town—a wide range of the best companies and performers from the UK and beyond.

LipService returns to Blackpool next Friday and Saturday with its comic take on Oscar Wilde’s classic novel about an ageing socialite, The Picture of Dorian—or should that be Doreen?—Gray.

Triple Olivier award-winning musical Top Hat—featuring the classic songs of Irving Berlin and based on the film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers—comes to the Opera House, Manchester from Tuesday to February 21.

Liverpool’s renowned Tmesis Theatre brings its new production That’s Amore to The Met in Bury next Thursday.

Poet Simon Armitage comes to the Liverpool Everyman on Thursday, where he will be reading from Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014, a new selection of his extensive body of work. The performance will be followed by a book signing.

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