Have you got a Big Imagination? That’s the question Big Imaginations, the North of England’s festival of theatre for families, is asking children this autumn. The festival sees a fantastic range of family-friendly theatre, storytelling, music and...
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Lightwaves, a free festival of light, returns to illuminate MediaCityUK in December. Last year’s festival saw 19 installations, including interactive art works using voice and body movements to create light changes. Indoors the nearby Lowry...
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‘What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine’ (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1). While we may be familiar with many lines from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure most of us are less familiar with the play. Quays Life talks to RSC Artistic Director...
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Sherlock Holmes meets the Greatest Showman as The Ministry of Lost & Found bring a day of interactive theatre to Manchester Central Library. Youngsters are encouraged to become super sleuths for day, joining Frankie Found on a mission to locate...
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Roundabout is a pop-up theatre from Paines Plough and Theatre Clwyd. The big, yellow dome, which seats 160 people, has previously stopped off at Eccles, Little Hulton and last year made its home in Ordsall Park. This year Roundabout visits Albert...
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In ‘Who Cares’, writer and director Matt Woodhead shares the inspirational stories of young cares in Salford. What is the story of Who Cares? Matt: ‘Who Cares’ is a verbatim play adapted from over 200 hours of interviews with young...
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To mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, HOME Manchester is hosting a one-off, pay what you can, screening of the 2018 film, Peterloo followed by a Q&A with director, Mike Leigh. PETERLOO featuring Rory Kinnear as Henry Hunt...
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Circus fans are in for a treat this autumn as Circus 1903 arrives at The Lowry with some of the most spectacular acts from around the world. The show promises to transport audiences back to the turn-of-the-century, shortly after the time of Greatest...
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‘A bunch of clowns trying to do the impossible,’ is how Dylan Emery describes Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. It’s an insanely ambitious show he co-founded with Adam Megiddo in 2008, and soon became a must-see staple of the Edinburgh Fringe...
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The Lowry Galleries are hosting a special display giving a peak behind the scenes of the new cinema biopic celebrating Lowry’s life. Mrs Lowry & Son stars Timothy Spall as artist LS Lowry and Vanessa Redgrave as his mother Elizabeth, with whom...
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Carmel Thomason