HOME Theatre, Manchester; Tuesday 8th October, 2019

The year is 1612: in a packed courtroom in Renaissance Rome an aspiring young artist barely out of her teens is giving evidence against a man twice her age – she claims that he forced himself upon her, he vociferously denies any wrongdoing.

Artemisia Gentileschi is today revered as a Baroque master but her early life and her subsequent work was dominated and defined by the rape allegation against a man who was supposed to be her art tutor.Read More »

HOME Theatre, Manchester; Friday 27th September, 2019

Two years ago things seemed to be going extremely well for esteemed international performance artists Sh!t Theatre – somehow they blagged a cheeky holiday to America to stalk their idol Dolly Parton and ended up coming back to Britain with a fully-fledged mainstream crossover hit show.

But recently, in true showbusiness style, things seem to have gone a bit awry for the normally effervescent duo – both are now economic migrants who have been forced to leave their homeland: one says she’s feeling lonely on a canal boat and the other is grafting it out in Leeds, a small town just north of London.

But the Sh!ts are an irrepressibly intrepid theatre making proposition – instead of banging on about how sh!t it all is on Twitter they’ve done what they’ve always been good at: made a new show about it. Read More »

HOME Theatre, Manchester; Friday 27th September, 2019

<<BREAKING NEWS>> : somewhere on the other side of the world a plane is falling from the sky. YesYesNoNo Theatre have the latest reports: they say that information is scarce and that all contact with the doomed aircraft has been lost.

Suddenly, from the front row of the audience, a hero emerges. In an inventive twist on staging convention, every performance of The Accident Did Not Take Place involves YesYesNoNo inviting a guest actor to take the lead role each night – but we’re told that this actor knows nothing about the plot or the script, this will be a hero who has to fake it to make it.Read More »

The Lowry, Salford; Thursday 26th September, 2019

What do you do when your mate always needs to have a chat? When they’ve clearly got something going on but then they don’t actually come out and say it? Just how long can you continue to be there for them?

Under Three Moons by Daniel Kanaber delves inquisitively into the murky world of strained emotions and one very erratic friendship – a reflective hour that demands the invasive exploration of two reluctant individuals in the hope that the fractious interaction between them can somehow be deciphered. Read More »

HOME Theatre, Manchester; Tuesday 24th September, 2019

In 1946, celebrated children’s author Enid Blyton published the first of what would go on to be six books about a girl’s boarding school in Cornwall: an imposing edifice on a beautiful clifftop where teachers Miss Potts and Miss Grayling would oversee the transformation of young girls into fine young women – that school was known as Malory Towers.

Malory Towers the stage play by the Wise Children theatre company picks up the characters and essential themes of the books in order to set up a captivating two-hour long stage spectacle – a show that comfortably looks and feels like the manifestation of a classic, Blyton-esque childhood adventure.Read More »