Back Seat Betty at Joshua Brooks, Manchester, July 1-3 is part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Wythenshawe prostitute Bethany has a bad feeling about her new neighbours.
A blend of spoken word, horror film pastiche and an Owen Jones book, Back Seat Betty is performed by Joanne Dakin, who lives in Salford and reads to stroke patients at Wythenshawe Hospital with the charity InterAct.
Death By Pie's Edinburgh previews of its production Health Under Fire will be part of the festival at Joshua Brooks July 23-25. The show is a noir spoof set in '50s Manchester.
The show will be then head north for a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (August 8-29) at Cafe Camino.
Award-winning writer and director Colin Connor is back at this year’s fringe with a new play about the influence of The Smiths on one man’s life.
Colin was commissioned to write Mr Smith for a Smiths convention and the play was so well received he is now performing it at the King's Arms in Salford on July 9-10, followed by Camden Fringe.
Colin, who is also directing The Stars Are Made of Concrete during GMFringe, previously directed The Best in the GMFringe festival winning the 2013 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Fringe Production.