This weekend, for fans of contemporary circus, Sadiq Ali Company's Tell Me is at Lowry tonight Fri 16 and tomorrow Sat 17 Jan.
Next week (w/c 19 Jan) things pick up in earnest with Future Flares (21-23 Jan) including Will Dickie, Anemone Valcke & Verona Verbakel, Brigitte Jurack, Peader Kirk, Jérémie Cyr-Cooke, Pinchbeck & Smith and Arts and Humanities students, alumni, Jenny Baines & Brigid McLeer.
Also on Fri 23 Hope Mill Theatre has Marm's Spotlight; and The Kings Arms has Varnish (also on Sat 24 Jan).
Further afield, to the West, Unity has Sober Scribbles: Scratch Night on Wed 21 Jan and The Old Electric, Blackpool also has a Scratch Night on Thu 22 Jan. To the East, in Leeds, the Riley Theatre has PCK Dance's Into The Light.
The following week (w/c 26 Jan) The End Times is at RNCM on Tue 27 Jan; then HOME x Malandra Jacks' The Home We Made runs 28-31 Jan. Lowry has Motionhouse's Hidden on Fri 30 Jan; and The Kings Arms has Under The Lamp Post on Sat 31 Jan.
Further afield at Lancaster Arts, Adam York Gregory + Gillian Jane Lees's BALANCE is on Sat 31 Jan (daytime).
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.
Artists take note - the Social Experiment: Queer Contact Edition call closes on 2 Feb.
Best
Tamsin
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No. 558 / FY 29
WORD OF WARNING PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME 2026
Wed 11 Feb, 8pm. PWYD | Lowry
TROUBLE, STRUGGLE, BUBBLE & SQUEAK
Victoria Melody (dir. Mark Thomas)
Thu 19 Feb, 6pm-9pm. FREE | Contact
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: QUEER CONTACT EDITION
A gathering for Live Art and performance.
Fri 20 Mar, 7pm. PWYD | Contact
TURN 2026
A night of new North West dance.
Thu 9 Apr, 6pm-9pm. FREE | Contact
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
A gathering for Live Art and performance.
(PWYD are Pay What You Decide events)

