Following the PM’s glowing praise for AI as the ultimate problem solver, I decided to let ChatGPT take a crack at writing this week’s edition. It started strong, but then went rogue—making up fake listings and jumbling dates like it was training for a comedy gig. As much as I love a good laugh, sending you all on an AI-fueled wild goose chase felt a step too far, even for my dark sense of humour... though it did, genuinely, write what you just read!
This weekend Lowry Botis Seva's Far From The Norm is at Lowry on Sat 18 Jan.Next week (w/c 20 Jan) is truly hectic with Future Flares crossing into PUSH:
Future Flares (22-24 Jan) at Manchester School of Theatre has Mechanimal's Vigil, Gabriela Flarys + Andrea Maciel's Deluge, Dan Dubowitz's A Night Grit Walk on Wed 22 Jan; Neil Mackenzie, Mole Wetherell + Phoebe Woodbridge's Journey's End Working Title (wip), Lewys Holt's 30 Minute Set and Katy Baird's Get Off on Thur 23 Jan and Pinchbeck + Smith's A Seventh Man on Fri 24 Jan.
Meanwhile at HOME, PUSH 2025 (24 Jan - 8 Feb) kicks off with Afreena Islam-Wright's Lucky Tonight on Fri 24 + Sat 25 Jan.
Over in Liverpool you can catch Mark Thomas's Gaffa Tapes at the Playhouse on Thu 23 Jan and there's a Scratch Night at the Old Electric in Blackpool on Fri 24 Jan.
The following week (w/c 27 Jan)
PUSH at HOME has Switch_Mcr's Bad Science on Mon 27 + Tue 28 Jan, Maz Hedgehog's What Is Love To A Goddess (wip) on Tue 28 + Wed 29 Jan; Smug Roberts' Dementia Street on Wed 29 + Thu 30 Jan; Unhinged on Thu 30 + Fri 31; Girl Gang' Millennial Pink on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Feb and Mothers Who Make' s Motherkind on Sat 1 Feb.
Elsewhere, at Contact, there's Magical Animals: A Tribute to Jackie Hagan on Sat 1 Feb.
Further afield, Sheffield Theatres have Eleanor May Blackburn's Does My Fanny Look Big In This? on Wed 29 Jan and Jenni Jackson's Endurance on Fri 31 Jan + Sat 1 Mar. Unity, Liverpool's Scratch Night on Thu 30 Jan; and Porcelain Delaney's Toilet Paper Diaries is at the Old Electric in Blackpool on Fri 31 Jan.
Meanwhile have a look at Word of Warning's current performance schedule and, for the artists among you, our call for proposals for Turn 2025 and Social Experiment are open until Fri 31 Jan.
Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances.
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Tamsin
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