warnmcr: march of time...


No quips or word play this week - the only news story that matters is not joke fodder - but for anyone that hasn't seen it, a clip of Zelenskyy's 'piano playing' seems a fitting tribute in this particular arena.

In performance world the pace continues to pick up, and we've even got some work to save the date for; before that though: 

IRL:
This weekend News News News (created with Andy Field + Beckie Darlington) is at Contact on Sat 5 Mar; while You Heard Me is at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and Verve is at the Riley Theatre, NSCD both on Fri 4 + Sat 5 Mar.

Next week (w/c 7 Mar) on Tue 8 Mar All Things Equal is at Mayfield and Oddly Moving's Atlasis at The Lowry. Eleanor May Blackburn's Subdural Haematoma is at the King's Arms on 10 + 11 Mar, while for younger viewers, Reckless Sleepers' It's Hot It's Not is at The Lowry (10-12 Mar).

Further afield Transform (9 Mar-9 Apr) kicks off in Leeds with Jaha Koo's The History of Korean Western Theatre while also in Leeds, Northern Connections 22 is at NSCD.
Much further afield Sprint kicks off at Camden People's Theatre on 8 Mar.

The following week (w/c 14 Mar) is busy: Submerge Festival (17-26 Mar) gets going including The Dan Daw Show at HOME, Sarah Leghissa in the street and Pigpen and Nurture at SeeSaw. Meanwhile Phoebe Francis Brown is also at Contact and Lost Dog and Talk Show are at The Lowry.

In Leeds, Transform has The Sound Grief Project, Jamal Gerald + Nadia Beugré.
In Liverpool, Angel Field Festival has Synbia  and Trails while The Truth To Power project arrives in Hudersfield. 

Online: 
You can see Nigel Barrett + Louise Mari's Mystery Trip (5-19 Mar) via The Lowry; while Lancaster Arts has Mind The Gap's A Little Space on Mon 7 Mar, while Transform has The More You Rehearse The Worse It Gets streaming on Wed 9 Mar, then on demand 10-12 Mar. You can also see Proto-type Theater's A Dangerous Thing via Word of Warning from Mon 7 Mar.
Plus there's always HOMESCREEN and MIF Watch On Demand or CPT Digital.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin


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Helena Ascough | Ross McCaffrey | Will Dickie


warnmcr: winds of change...


After a tempestuous month, let's just hope that March's winds can turn back the tide and blow some positive change on all fronts... 
By contrast, the performance world is still in a bit of a lull, but more is blowing into view:

IRL:
Over the next 10 days: Sadiq Ali's The Chosen Haram is at The Lowry on Thu 3 Mar and News News News (created with Andy Field + Beckie Darlington) at Contact on Sat 5 Mar. In Leeds Small Acts' Future Pub is on Sat 26 Feb at The Holbeck and Verve is at the Riley Theatre, NSCD on Fri 4 + Sat 5 Mar.

The following week (w/c 7 Mar) the pace starts to pick up: on Tue 8 Mar  All Things Equal is at Mayfield and Oddly Moving's Atlas is at The Lowry. Eleanor May Blackburn's Subdural Haematoma is at the King's Arms on 10 + 11 Mar, while for younger viewers, Reckless Sleepers' It's Hot It's Not is at The Lowry (10-12 Mar).
Further afield Transform (9 Mar-9 Apr kicks off in Leeds with Jaha Koo's The History of Korean Western Theatre while also in Leeds, Northern Connections 22 is at NSCD.
Much further afield Sprint kicks off at Camden People's Theatre on 8 Mar. 

Online: 
You can see Nigel Barrett + Louise Mari's Mystery Trip (5-19 Mar) via The Lowry; while Lancaster Arts has Mind The Gap's A Little Space on Mon 7 Mar, and Proto-type Theater's A Dangerous Thing has also landed on their platform until 7 Mar.
Plus there's always HOMESCREEN and MIF Watch On Demand or CPT Digital.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin


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warnmcr: in vogue...


As we head into 2 weeks of Queer Contact and vogueing for all, we also see to be heading towards a half-term lull.

IRL:
This weekend,  Motionhouse's Nobody is at HOME (until Sat 12 Feb) while Queer Contact has (I think both sold-out) Scratch on Sat 12 Feb and The Family Vogue Ball on Sun 13 Feb.
Tonight, Fri 11 Feb Levantes Dance Theatre's The Band is at The Duke's, Lancaster and Silvia Mercuriali's Macondo is at the Unity, Liverpool; while Edalia Day's Too Pretty to Punch is at The Holbeck in Leeds on Sat 12 Feb. Much further afield, BE Festival  is at Birmingham Rep (15-18 Feb).

Next week (w/c 14 Feb) Queer Contact continues including Emma Frankland's Hearty on Thu 17 Feb and the Vogue Ball is at Manchester Academy on Fri 18 Feb. Elsewhere, Gecko's The Wedding is at Storyhouse, Chester (16-19 Feb); The Empathy Experiment 2.0 is at LBT, Huddersfield on Thu 17 Feb and Rowena Gander's Barely Visible is at Unity, Liverpool on Sat 19 Feb.

Thereafter, the remainder of February and early March seem to be quiet - but you could look out for Small Acts' Future Pub on Sat 26 Feb at The Holbeck, Leeds and Sadiq Ali's The Chosen Haram at The Lowry on Thu 3 Mar. If you want to get ahead, moving into mid March there is then a flurry of further flung festivals with Transform in Leeds and Sprint in London.

Online: 
Proto-type Theater's A Dangerous Thing continues via The Lowry until Thu 18 Feb; you can send away for Third Angel's The Distraction Agents and there's always HOMESCREEN and MIF Watch On Demand or CPT Digital

In light of the lull, this Weekly Warning might take a couple of weeks breaks (unless I spot something unmissable) but will be back early March.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

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Tamsin


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warnmcr: uncapped...


In the face of the energy-sapping gloom of the news cycle, at least this early February is seeing lights up on a few more performative options:

IRL:
This weekend, tonight Fri 4 Feb, The Lowry has the Horizons Collective Shoots Scratch, while Hope Mill's Turn On Fest has a Development Evening on Sun 6 Feb. Further afield, in Leeds, Yorkshire Dance has No Dress Code on Fri 4 Feb and Slung Low at The Holbeck has Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Sat 5 Feb. 

Next week (w/c 7 Feb) Motionhouse's Nobody is at HOME (10-12 Feb) while Queer Contactruns roughly 10-19 Feb - this week look out for a Scratch on Sat 12 Feb and The Family Vogue Ball on Sun 13 Feb.
Levantes Dance Theatre's The Band is at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield on Tue 8 Feb and The Duke's, Lancaster on Fri 11 Feb. Silvia Mercuriali's Macondo is at the Unity, Liverpool on Fri 11 Feb; while  Edalia Day's Too Pretty to Punch is at The Holbeck in Leeds on Sat 12 Feb. Much further afield, BE Festival  is at Birmingham Rep (15-18 Feb).

The following week (w/c 14 Feb) Queer Contact continues including Emma Frankland and the Vogue Ball. Elsewhere, Gecko are in Chester; The Empathy Experiment in Huddersfield and Rowena Gander in Liverpool. 

Online: 
Proto-type Theater's A Dangerous Thing continues via The Lowry until Thu 18 Feb; you can send away for Third Angel's The Distraction Agents and there's always HOMESCREEN and MIF Watch On Demand.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin


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warnmcr: desperately seeking Su...


On this Gray day the civil service seems intent on upstaging the theatre world with the best cliffhanger (and probably anticlimax) ever.  As we edge ever closer to February, however, a few more intentionally performative things are starting to happen. - so just a very quick update, largely to give a heads-up that Queer Contact is impending:

IRL:
This weekend Rob Newman's The Philosophy Show is at the Lowry on Sat 29 Jan; while Turn On Festival at Hope Mill Theatre has a Scratch Night on Sun 30 Jan. Over in Leeds CLAY has Hole Again tomorrow Fri 28 Jan.

Next week (w/c 31 Jan) Turn on Fest at Hope Mill Theatre has Creatures of Catharsis If Not When Then Now on Thu 3 Feb, and a  Development Evening on Sun 6 Feb; while at The Lowry the Horizons Collective Shoots Scratch is Fri 4 Feb.
Wigan Old Courts has Dibby Theatre's First Time on Wed 2 Feb while in Leeds Yorkshire Dance has No Dress Code on Fri 4 Feb and Slung Low at The Holbeck has Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Sat 5 Feb. 

The following week (w/c 31 Jan) Motionhouse are at HOME and Queer Contact kicks off including, on the first weekend, a Scratch of early works.
Levantes Dance Theatre is in Huddersfield and Lancaster, Silvia Mercuriali in Liverpool and Edalia Day in Leeds. Much further afield, BE Festival kicks off in Birmingham. 

Online: 
Breaking news, The Lowry has Proto-type Theater's A Dangerous Thing from today until Thu 18 Feb. 

Elsewhere still not seeing a lot, but you might want to invest in Third Angel's The Distratction Agents and there's always HOMESCREEN and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

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Tamsin


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warnmcr: muTINy...


Here we are in the groundhoggery of 2020mk2, and while our rulers' internal 'party' dissent rumbles on, unbelievably I've realised that this Spring is also Word of Warning's tin anniversary. I can definitely assure you that any parties *we* might hold *will* be completely indistinguishable from work events...

Anyway - the performance world is still pretty sleepy but there are a few things this month worth noting:

IRL:
Over the next few weeks: at the Lowry, De Nada Dance Theatre's Mariposa is this Sun 16 Jan; while Thick + Tight's Short + Sweet is Tue 18 + Wed 19 Jan; Rob Newman's The Philosophy Show is Sat 29 Jan and Horizons Collective Shoots Scratch is Fri 4 Feb.
Sat 22 Jan sees the start of Turn On Festival at Hope Mill Theatre - the schedule seems to be a bit in flux so maybe look out for the Scratch Night on Sun 30 Jan or the Development Evening on Sun 6 Feb.

Further afield, Sheffield Theatres have Tania Camara's Oreo on Wed 19 Jan. Wigan Old Courts has The Empathy Experiment on Thu 20 Jan and Dibby Theatre's First Time on Wed 2 Feb. Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield has Motionhouse's Nobody on Tue 25 Jan; while in Leeds,  CLAY has Hole Again on Fri 28 Jan plus The Ofrenda installation continues until 19 Mar; while Yorkshire Dance has No Dress Code on Fri 4 Feb and Slung Low at The Holbeck has Avital Raz's My Jerusalem on Sat 5 Feb. 

Online: 
I have to confess I'm a bit confused by online offerings at the moment, quite a few things have vanished or paused but HOME has launched HOMESCREEN and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand.

In general, having trawled 80+ websites, I'm aware that quite a lot of organisations (us included) haven't yet published anything for this year so I will be re-examining them all and will be back, either at the end of January or early February depending on what I find!

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

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Tamsin


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warnmcr: retailiation...


On this blackest of fridays* heralding the retail festival of humbugmonth, I suspect this might be the last of these mails for the year before the world gets much more festive than I can deal with! This weekend is looking lively, as is next week - thereafter we head into unironic xmas show territory:

IRL:
This weekend, tonight, Fri 26 Nov, Botis Seva's BLKDOG is at The Lowry; The Queer House'sPink Lemonade is at Contact (also Sat 27 Nov); Malandra Jacks' A City Beneath the City is at East Manchester Academy; while Figs in Wigs' Astrology Bingo is at HOME; which also plays host to Xavier de Sousa's Regnant tomorrow Sat 27 Nov.

Further afield,  Victoria Firth's The Butter Piece is at CLAY in Leeds on Fri 26 Nov; DaDaFest's DDFS21 has a series of scratch performances at Unity, until 27 Nov and Julia Griffin's I Used To Be is in Warrington on Sat 27 Nov.

Next week, w/c 29 Nov Dibby Theatre First Time is at Contact (30 Nov - 4 Dec); Sleepwalk Collective + Christopher Brett Bailey's Psychodrama is at HOME Fri 3 + Sat 4 Nov; and The Family Vogue Ball is at Z-arts also Fri 3 + Sat 4 Nov. Elsewhere Aidan Moesby's I Was Naked Smelling of Rain is in St Helen's on Wed 1 Dec.

The following week, w/c 5 Dec pretty much sees the onset of panto - though for a different take you can see Sh!t Theatre's Sing-a-long a Muppet Christmas Carol at HOME (7-9 Dec) and at CLAY in Leeds on Fri 10 Dec. 

Online: 
New - IBT has Lucy Cash & Mark Jeffery’s Winterage: Last Milk until approx 4 Dec; Narcissister's Organ Player on Thu 9 Dec (+ 2 wks after) and a Queer School of Live Art Cabaret on Sat 18 Dec.
You can still listen to DreamFM's What Do You Dream Of at 9pm nightly til Thu 16 Dec. The Lowry has Frantic Assembly's I Think We Are Alone 
HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme).  As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

I'll be back if anything unmissable pops up - otherwise expect normal service to resume in the New Year when the performance world wakes from its seasonal stupor.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

*Black Friday - the chance for retailers to recoup losses by offloading tat they haven't managed to shift - so no, retailiation wasn't a typo! ;)

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warnmcr: northern no-power-house...


If the Northern Powerhouse was all about the transport infrastructure, yesterday we discovered that Power is really a multipack of unbranded batteries from a poundshop... so don't expect 'nipping to a show' in another city to get easier anytime soon, nevertheless...

IRL:
Next week, w/c 22 Nov is hectic. HOME has Two Destination Language's Near Gone  (23-25 Nov); Figs in Wigs' Astrology Bingo on Fri 26 Nov and Xavier de Sousa's Regnant on Sat 27 Nov. Contact has The Queer House's Pink Lemonade 23-27 Nov; while The Lowry has Extraordinary Bodies' Human on Wed 24 Nov and Botis Seva's BLKDOG on Fri 26 Nov. For something historically revealing, Malandra Jacks' A City Beneath the City is at East Manchester Academy on Fri 26 Nov.

Beyond Mancunia, Victoria Firth's The Butter Piece is at CLAY in Leeds on Fri 26 Nov and Julia Griffin's I Used To Be is in Warrington on Sat 27 Nov. In Liverpool, in a late addition, DaDaFest's DDFS21 has a series of scratch performances at Unity, 23-27 Nov.

The following week, w/c 29 Nov Dibby Theatre is at Contact; Sleepwalk Collective + Christopher Brett Bailey at HOME; and The Family Vogue Ball at Z-arts. 

Online: 
New - you can listen to DreamFM's What Do You Dream Of at 9pm nightly til Thu 16 Dec.
Last chance for DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (unti 28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit  (until 1 Dec) can be watched via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme).  As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: damp squib or ray of light...



On another dank, grey Mancunian morning, the weather seems to be signalling geopolitical damp squib... but in a truly cheesey coincidence the sun is just struggling to peek through the cloud cover in time to talk about things to see:

IRL:
This weekend, The Lowry has Imitating the Dog's Dracula  on Fri 12 + Sat 13 Nov and New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge tonight, Fri 12 Nov (also at Chester Storyhouse on Sat 13 Nov); while Ugly Bucket's Good Grief  continues at HOME til Sat 13 Nov.
Mandla Rae's As British as a Watermelon is at Lancaster Arts tonight, Fri 12 Nov, while in Leeds Terpsichoring Dance's Me, Myself + Misha is on Sat 13 Nov.

Next week, w/c 15 Nov Susanna Amato's Landfill of Memories is at HOME on Tue 16 and Wed 17 Nov. Two Manchester Independents commissions premier: Dream FM at Manchester Central Library on Thu 18 Nov; and Edgelands at Manchester Central on Sat 20 Nov.
Further afield, Year of the Rat's The Lost is at St Helen's Chester Lane Library; and in Sheffield Enable US Festival has The Sensemaker on Mon 15 Nov and The Cult of Water on Thu 18 Nov. If you happen to be in Leeds, The Ofrenda Gathering opens at CLAY on Thu 18 Nov (until 19 Mar 2022)

The following week, w/c 22 Nov is busy: Two Destination Language, Figs in Wigs and Xavier de Sousa are at HOME; Pink Lemonade at Contact; Extraordinary Bodies and BLKDOG at The Lowry.
Beyond Mancunia, Victoria Firth is at CLAY in Leeds and Julia Griffin's I Used To Be is in Warrington. 

Online: 
DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (unti 28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit  (until 1 Dec) can be watched via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme).  As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch

warnmcr: bang or whimper..?


This murky 5th of November seems strangely fitting for an even murkier world of political sleaze - no irony that the row is burning fiercely on this day commemorating attempted sedition... Meanwhile in the world of performance:

IRL:
This weekend, at Contact, Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Game and at HOME, Antler's Civilisation continue until Sat 6 Nov.

In Liverpool at Homotopia, Harry Clayton-Wright hosts You Otter Know tonight, Fri 5 Nov and there's An Evening with David Hoyle on Sat 6 Nov; while Candoco's Double Bill is at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds, also on Sat 6 Nov; while the Enable US Festival is ongoing in Sheffield.

Next week, w/c 8 Nov, HOME has Remi Adam's You, Us & Them on Tue 9 + Wed 10 Nov and Ugly Bucket's Good Grief (11-13 Nov); and the Lowry has I M Pact's Resilience on Wed 10 Nov, New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge on Fri 12 Nov and Imitating the Dog's Dracula:  on Fri 12 + Sat 13 Nov.

Beyond Mancunia; Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir stop off on Wed 10 Nov at Capstone Theatre, Liverpool Hope Uni en route to Cop26; while Ergon Theatre's The Wicked Problem (Tue 9 Nov) and Mandla Rae's As British as a Watermelon (Fri 12 Nov) head north to Lancaster Arts. In Leeds, the Playhouse has Louisa Keohane + Jamie Fletcher's Pursuit of Perfection Wed 10 Nov and Terpsichoring Dance's Me, Myself + Misha on Sat 13 Nov. New Art Club's Cupid's Revenge is also at Chester Storyhouse on Sat 13 Nov.

The following week, w/c 15 Nov, seems to be a quiet one, but you can see Susanna Amato at HOME and Year of the Rat in St Helens plus the last couple of Manchester Independents new commissions.

Online: 
DanteorDie's Skin Hunger on Film (29 Oct-28 Nov) and Tamzen Moulding's Fall, Wake + Exit  (until 1 Dec) can be watched via The Lowry; HOME's HOMEMAKERS is still running and there's also still MIF Watch On Demand and Unity Online (including catch ups of in person programme).  As ever, have a look at Word of Warning's YouTube channel for previous events and Domesticated our home for online video.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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MANCHESTER INDEPENDENTS
Spotlighting Greater Manchester artists.


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DOMESTICATED
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Beth Clayton | Freddie Watkins | Heather Bandenburg | Kellie Colbert & Deborah Newton | Mahboobeh Rajabi | Nicholas Tee | Oliver Ford | Sandra Bouguerch