NW Productions

Published: 4 March 2018
Reporter: David Upton

Sherbet at the Octagon

A trio of Italian blockbusters brings desire, betrayal and revenge to The Lowry in Salford as award-winning Opera North returns with a season of Fatal Passions.

HOME in Manchester is staging a new production of Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation to March 17.

Actor and playwright Deborah McAndrew’s new adaption of Charles Dickens’s Hard Times moves to the Lowry in Salford from next Tuesday to Saturday.

Action Hero—theatre makers Gemma Paintin and James Stenhouse—present Extraordinary Rendition and Slap Talk, two dynamic shows in one four-day residency, at HOME in Manchester, from Wednesday to Saturday.

Out of hundreds of submissions for the national Octagon Prize, Sherbet by Sarah McDonald Hughes and Curtis Cole is one of the winning duologues that will be performed for the first time in the Bolton venue’s Studio during the theatre’s 50th anniversary season.

Off the back of the success of The Simon & Garfunkel Story comes a new concert-style show based on the friendship and musical relationship of Carole King and James Taylor: You've Got A Friend. It’s at the Opera House in Manchester next Tuesday.

Manchester venue 53two presents the première next week of Eggs, a dark comedy based on friendship, fertility, and freaking out.

Pen:Chant and Gorilla present SHE PWR: An International Women’s Day Special at the Gorilla venue in Whitworth Street, Manchester next Thursday.

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