Re:play Festival 2015 programme unveiled
The Re:play Festival of new theatre from Manchester and Salford has revealed its programme for 2015.
The lineup features some of the best new fringe theatre from across the region, presented at a specially-built pop-up theatre close to the site where HOME – the successor to much-loved Manchester arts institutions Cornerhouse and The Library Theatre – will stand from next year.
The War Stories collaboration between Manchester’s 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester and Canberra’s You Are Here Festival features in the programme, as does a performance of Ransack Theatre’s “claustrophobic” version of Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter. ALRA (North) graduate Anya Reiss’ drama Spur of the Moment, What a Little Bird Told Me’s Colder than Here, Tuesday at Tesco’s by Tangled Web, and one woman comedy show An Evening of Filth and Despair by Jenny May Morgan are also included in the programme.
The festival also features the Re:play Breakthrough Comedian of the Year competition, featuring five of the city’s best fringe comics, and the JB Shorts collection of 15-minute plays by some of the city’s leading writers and directors.
The festival is programmed by HOME, the new organisation formed in the merger of the Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse, whose final exhibition opened this weekend.
Re:play 2015 takes place from 12-24 January 2015.
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