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How PhD research is influencing Contact’s festive panto

Thomas Corner

After a two year break, pantomime is back at Contact, Manchester with a fun-packed production of Rumpelstiltskin from The Big Tiny Company that is reinventing the genre. The Big Tiny’s unique approach to pantomime is guided by co-director Ben...

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Em Prendergast, Zoe McWhinney - credit Becky Bailey Photography

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Actor Zoë McWhinney – “Maybe Some People Will Make That Step To Learn Sign Language”

Carmel Thomason

Actor and poet Zoë McWhinney is coming to Home, Manchester in a new extended production of Eloise Pennycott’s award-winning play, Barrier(s). She talks to Quays Life about breaking barriers as a profoundly deaf actor and what it takes to...

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Centre Rebecca Lock as Caz, Chris Grahamson as Gareth & the cast in HERE & NOW, credit Pamela Raith

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Behind the scenes with the cast of Here & Now the new Steps’ Musical

Carmel Thomason

Returning to the Here & Now musical for the UK and Ireland tour, Rebecca Lock promises that audiences are in for a theatrical treat. “They can expect a rollercoaster of emotion,” she says, “and it’s so joyful, colourful...

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