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The
Library Theatre Company’s Re:Play
Festival is the great annual celebration
of the best theatre seen in smaller
venues in Manchester and Salford over
the previous year. This year’s
programme is particularly strong on
drama, and features four excellent
plays from the 24:7 Festival; a bundle
of extraordinarily varied short plays
(none lasting more than 15 minutes)
from JB Shorts; a superb production
of Simon Stephens’ Herons; and
a passionate piece about homophobic
bullying. There will be the return
of two favourites as well; FirstStage,
which offers writers, devisers and
performers the chance to have their
ideas in development tested; and the
Re:Play debate, which will examine
an important aspect of small-scale
theatre in Manchester and Salford.
Our third Re:Play Festival offers
a marvellous opportunity to see some
exciting productions - if you see
two or more shows, tickets cost just
£8 (£7.50 concessions)
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Hollywood
screenwriter Herbert Tucker is down
on his luck. Struggling with writer’s
block, his career is on the skids.
One day, his daughter Libby, an aspiring
New York actress who he abandoned
nearly 20 years previously, turns
up unannounced at his front door.
His
conscience pricked by Libby’s
out-of-the-blue appearance, Herbert
thinks he can make her dreams of cinematic
stardom become reality. Libby, meanwhile,
thinks she can return the favour by
getting her dad back together with
Steffy, his long-suffering on-off
girlfriend. Paul Jepson directs this
touching, poignant, and typically
funny Neil Simon drama. Show
times - Tuesday & Wednesday -
7.30pm, Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm,
Friday - 8pm, Saturday - 3pm &
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Celebrated
children’s writer Hans Christian
Andersen arrives, unannounced, for
a stay at Gad’s Hill Place in
the Kent marshes - home to Charles
Dickens and his large, charismatic
family. To the lonely and eccentric
guest, the members of Dickens’s
household seem to live a life of unreachable
bliss. But with his broken English,
Andersen doesn’t at first see
the storms brewing within the family:
undeclared passions, a son about to
go to India, and a growing strangeness
at the heart of Dickens’s marriage.
Sebastian Barry has been twice nominated
for the Booker prize, and his novel
The Secret Scripture won the 2008
Costa Prize. His plays include the
international hit The Steward of Christendom,
Our Lady of Sligo, and Hinterland.
Max Stafford-Clark directs this haunting
new play from Out of Joint, one of
Britain’s leading new writing
touring companies, rich in characters
and touched with a wistful humour.
The cast includes Niamh Cusack as
Catherine, Charles Dickens’
wife; David Rintoul as Charles Dickens,
and Danny Sapani as Hans Christian
Andersen. Offstage events post-show
discussion: Tuesday 2 March with director
Max Stafford-Clark. Performance
times: Tuesday & Wednesday - 7.30pm,
Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm, Friday
- 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.
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Meet
four desperate Chicago real estate
salesmen. This month’s top guy
wins a gleaming Cadillac, the runner-up
takes home a set of steak knives,
the rest get the sack. Admire their
know-how and their slickness. Wonder
at their dream-selling and their hokum.
Be appalled by their double-dealing
and chicanery. Glengarry Glen Ross,
a sizzling drama of hard-driven men
on the edge and at the edge, won a
Pulitzer Prize and is directed by
Chris Honer, whose production of Mamet’s
Speed-the-Plow was nominated for Best
Production in the 2006 Manchester
Evening News Awards. This
production contains very strong language
and smoking on stage. Performance
Times - Monday to Wednesday - 7.30pm,
Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm, Friday
- 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.
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When
David Benson was 12, his grandfather
gave him a 78rpm record of Noël
Coward singing his comic patter song
‘The Stately Homes of England’.
He was instantly hooked. In David
Benson Sings Noël Coward, Noël
Coward’s wonderful songs are
brilliantly performed by David Benson,
whose Think No Evil Of Us: My Life
With Kenneth Williams was a hit at
the Library Theatre in October 1997.
Reprising to the role he played in
the BBC’s Goodnight Sweetheart,
David Benson indulges his life-long
passion for the songs of Noël
Coward in this witty and sparkling
tribute to ‘The Master’.
David Benson Sings Noël Coward
features Benson at his best as impersonator,
host, raconteur, and singer, including
songs such as ‘Mad Dogs and
Englishmen’, ‘London Pride’,
‘Mad About the Boy’, ‘I’ll
See You Again’, ‘If Love
Were All’ and ‘Mrs Worthington’.
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Mr
Happiness sits alone giving advice
to those he will never meet. He chooses
the problem and the remedy, but how
will he manage his own troubles? An
ironic short drama set in a New York
radio station in 1934, Mr Happiness
is directed by Katie Lewis, resident
assistant director at the Library
Theatre as part of the MFA in Theatre
directing at Birkbeck College, University
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When
Amber was 11 years old, her mother
disappeared, leaving her to be raised
by her father. Upon his death when
Amber is 17, she discovers that he
wasn’t her father at all. Abandoning
her life as she knows it she travels
north, to unearth not only her family’s
secrets, but also the truth about
herself. Join her on a journey
of discovery, cold nights and skies
that are always starry. A
Little Voice A Long Way From Here
is suitable for ages 14 and upwards.
Following the success of
Fugee and The Red Shoes, A Little
Voice A Long Way From Here is the
latest show from the Library Theatre’s
resident young people’s theatre
company, norfox. The company offers
young actors aged 15-18 the opportunity
to develop their skills as performers
within a professional theatre environment.
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Show times: Friday - 7.30pm,
Saturday - 3pm & 7.30pm.
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Bob
Golding’s extraordinary portrayal
of Eric Morecambe, direct from the
West End, commemorates the 25th anniversary
of his untimely final curtain and
celebrates the wonderful life of Britain’s
best loved comic. A moving portrait
of an affectionate lad with funny
bones, a born entertainer, a big-hearted
perfectionist… the tall one
with glasses. Featuring the multi-talented
Bob Golding - who could have been
born to play Eric - written by the
brilliant Tim Whitnall and directed
by solo-maestro Guy Masterson, Morecambe
is a must-see for all fans of classic
British comedy. So come laugh, come
cry, and celebrate “the tall
one with glasses” who had that
twinkle in his eye and shared it with
us all.
Show times: Thursday - 7.30pm, Friday
- 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.
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So
that their seriously ill daughter
can spend what might be her last months
in her childhood home, Ronnie and
Bridgette have vacated their dream
house in Delph for a Salford tower
block. And at first they think Otis
and Paula, in the flat below, are
the neighbours from hell. First seen
at Studio Salford, and subsequently
in the 2009 Re:Play Festival, and
now being given a new production by
Noreen Kershaw, this wry tale of love
and belongings, relics and regrets,
and trinkets and tombs, is both heartbreaking
and achingly funny. Performance
Times - Monday to Wednesday - 7.30pm,
Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm, Friday
- 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.
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Desperate
To Be Doris, LipService’s hilarious
show all about a wannabe Doris Day
singer, which has been nominated for
Best Special Entertainment at the
forthcoming Manchester Evening News
Theatre Awards, returns by popular
demand to the Library Theatre in May
2010 after its sell-out run at the
theatre earlier this year. Bolton-born
Darren Southworth, direct from the
West End production of Spamalot, plays
Dean, by day a buyer at a mail-order
nightwear firm. By night, he sings
like the great Doris Day. But when
his local operatic society, Out of
My Range, stages a production of Calamity
Jane, will he come alive? Show
times - Tuesday & Wednesday -
7.30pm, Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm,
Friday - 8pm, Saturday - 3pm &
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In
1995, Starving Artists premiered Road
Movie - their signature piece - at
the Edinburgh Festival where it won
both a Fringe First Award as well
as the inaugural Stage Award. The
show has been seen throughout the
world, with performances in Toronto,
Dublin, Miami, and Los Angeles, and
foreign language productions in Paris,
Munich, Rome and Geneva. For 2010,
one of Queer Up North’s favourite
companies revisit their award-winning
play in a powerful new production,
created especially for the festival
as part of its 18th Birthday celebrations.
Joel journeys westwards across the
United States to be reunited with
his lover. Along the way, he stumbles
across a series of people grieving
for lost loved ones, from an elderly
couple at a Vietnam Memorial, to a
Texan mother coming to terms with
her daughter’s suicide. A compelling
and moving tale of love and loss in
a mid-90s America at the height of
the AIDS crisis, Road Movie combines
Godfrey Hamilton’s evocative
writing with an astonishing central
performance from Mark Pinkosh to create
an affecting theatrical experience.
In 1996 Mark Pinkosh won a Manchester
Evening News Theatre Award for his
performance in Road Movie. Starving
Artists were nominated in the 2009
Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards
for Best Studio Production for Eat
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In
collaboration with the celebrated
Clod Ensemble, legendary New York
performance artist Peggy Shaw returns
to Queer Up North to take Manchester
audiences on a journey across the
landscape of her own body. Renowned
for her own gender-bending autobiographical
work, she recounts her extraordinary
experiences of the medical profession
from her current perspective as a
65-year-old lesbian grandmother. MUST
weaves together the stories of a lifetime
- giving birth on the way to Woodstock,
her mother’s electric shock
treatment in 1950s America, the loss
of a loved one - with projected microscopic
images, and live musicians performing
a powerful score for piano, double
bass and violin. «
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‘The
truth is rarely pure and never simple.’
This hysterical study of the Victorian
leisure class is one of the funniest
plays ever written. But this “trivial
play for serious people” - as
Oscar Wilde dubbed it - is also full
of social and sexual ironies beneath
its sunny and blithely irresponsible
surface. A laughter-filled comedy
of inversion, The Importance of Being
Earnest was the first ever-production
in the Library Theatre back in 1952,
and is being fittingly revived to
mark the company’s final production
in its present home. Performance
Times - Monday to Wednesday - 7.30pm,
Thursday - 3pm & 7.30pm, Friday
- 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.
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For
one night only! We invite you to join
us for a gala night celebrating 25
years of LipService lunacy. Yes, it’s
hard to believe from their youthful
good looks and physical elasticity
that the ladies of LipService have
been performing together for a quarter
of a century (well they started incredibly
young, four years old apparently).
To mark this momentous occasion, LipService
presents a comedy confection of their
best bits - from Withering Looks,
Women on the Verger, Very Little Women,
King Arthur and the Knights of the
Occasional Table, film clips from
B-Road Movie and Horror for Wimps,
and even some very early stand up.
Who remembers Girls in Orbit, or Mavis
the period from their first cabaret
show, Coming on Late? «
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