Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Ok, so yes I'm reaching for subject lines but Word of Warning is reeling just a touch from the tour de force that was Greg Wohead's Comeback Special, which marked the end of our fifth (yes fifth - wood anniversary apparently) year of programme; and I'm still discombobulated by the frantic show-seeking motorway-fest of the last couple of weeks, which has seen me plough through snow, inundation and pestilence - not to mention an awful lot of traffic...

This weekend (Sat 19 + Sun 20 Nov) you could check out the very physical Tmesis Theatre's Happy Hour at the Lowry, tonight Fri 25 Nov - or further afield, in Sheffield, Powder Keg's Morale is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) at Theatre Delicatessen (Fri 25 + Sat 26 Nov) or in Leeds, Panic Lab's The Fox & The Hound at Live Art Bistro on Sat 26 Nov.

Next week (w/c 28 Nov) sees Company Chameleon's Witness at the Lowry on Tue 29 + Wed 30 Nov; while Igor and Moreno's Idiot-Syncrasy is at Lancaster Arts on Wed 30 Nov. Barrel Organ's Some People Talk About Violence is at Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield (30 Nov-3 Dec) and Franko B's Milk and Blood is at East Street Arts, in Leeds on Thu 1 Dec.
Over in Liverpool, DaDaFest enters its final week with 3 pieces at the Bluecoat: Jo Bannon's Alba on Tue 29 Nov; Joey Hateley's DiRTY on Wed 30 Nov; and Tim Jeeves's The Kindness of Strangers on Thu 1 Dec.

Make the most of it as the following week (w/c 5 Dec) sees the start of the Xmas slow-down. The most WoW-friendly event is Sashkia Myers + Jamal Harewood at Live Art Bistro in Leeds on Thu 8 Dec; whilst also of interest in Manchester are Gary Clarke's COAL at Contact on Wed 7 + Thu 8 Dec (sold-out, check for returns); and Metis's World Factory at HOME (7-10 Dec).  A little further ahead, if you're after something more seasonal, there's Contact + Slung Low's The Siege of Christmas (15-22 Dec)

Unless something unmissable pops-up, this mail is going to go into panto-hibernation for a few weeks, but will be back in early January with news of Word of Warning's sixth year of programme. Have a good end of year break and see you with frosty new print in 2017!
 
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Tamsin

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So, after our excursion to parts south and east, here we are back to the chilly-dark, firework-fuggy days of a Manchester November, gearing up, not only for the next bargain Word of Warning outing but for the panoply of northern festival activity about to land...

This weekend, you can still catch Action Hero's Wrecking Ball at the Royal Exchange; Andy Field's Lookout (City Tower, courtesy of Contact) and Volker Girling's Portraits in Motion at HOME (all running until Sat 5 Nov); plus, on Saturday only, Bridget Fiske & Co After Hours in the Galleries at the Lowry.

Next week (w/c 7 Nov) obviously in parts Mancunian the only place to be is be with Word of Warning at Two Destination Language's Manpower at the Lowry on Thu 10 Nov (£5 TICKET OFFER: Manpower5).
If that doesn't sate your appetite, then it's time to hit the road.  On Wed 9 Nov The Continental, Preston has Louise Orwin's A Girl and a Gun and Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield has Forest Sounds Theatre's The Church of Jim; and on Thu 10 Nov, Lancaster Arts has Hetain Patel's American Man. 

It's also Autumn Festival time:
In Liverpool, Homotopia has Penny Arcade on Thu 10 Nov; David Hoyle on Sat 12 Nov and Mandy Romero in St Helens on Thu 17 Nov.

In Leeds Compass Festival (11-20 Nov) will be my destination, starting on Fri 11 Nov with Deborah Pearson's History, History, History, continuing over the weekend with Rosana Cade's Walking:Holding, Etheridge + Persighetti's Personal Shopper and Bethany Wells's WARMTH: a mobile sauna.  The second week includes Stan's Cafe, Playing Up, Jordan Mackenzie, Tim Hodge Felicity Barrow, Stephen Hodge, Rhiannon Armstorng and Lone Twin.

Back to Liverpool, the following weekend also sees the start of DaDaFest (17 Nov - 3 Dec) including Liz Carr, Martin O'Brien + Sheree Rose, Project O, Claire Cunningham, Jo Bannon and Tim Jeeves.

Beyond the festivals, the week commencing 14 Nov sees Candoco at Contact; Katy Baird at Sale Waterside; and Barrel Organ at the Royal Exchange.  Further afield there's Reckless Sleepers in Lancaster; Jamal Gerald and Katy Baird in Sheffield; and Josh Coates and Tin Can People in Preston.

I'm off now for a little lunchtime Lookout and hope to see lots of you next week at Two Destination Language's manifesto of maleness in a post-Brexit milieu!

best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2016
Thu 10 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
MANPOWER
Two Destination Language

Tue 22 — Thu 24 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
COMEBACK SPECIAL
Greg Wohead [post-show Q&A Tue 22]

As we at WoW peruse the hefty tome that is next week's Spill brochure, this weekend you can still catch Gecko's Institute at HOME and Thick Richard's Swear School at Waterside, Sale (both until 22 Oct); Keisha Thompson's Man on the Moon at STUN, tonight Fri 21 Oct (technically sold out but check for returns); and Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead Yet? at the Lowry on Sat 22 Oct.  Beyond Mancunia there's also Katy Baird's Workshy, tonight Fri 21 Oct at Live Art Bistro in Leeds... and for younger viewers Lone Twin's Beastie (til 22 Oct) at Unity, Liverpool.

Next week (w/c 24 Oct) sees Manchester with art-activism at Manchester Art Gallery in the form of Proud & Loud's Cells on Thu 27 Oct; dance, courtesy of Soul's Paths at the Wonder Inn and Clay at STUN (both Fri 28 Oct); and street gaming through Playfuel's Downpour at Manchester Science Festival on Sat 29 Oct. If wanderlust is kicking in, further afield there's Nasi Voutsas + Bertrand Lesca's Eurohouse at the LBT in Huddersfield on Mon 24 Oct, Jamal Harewood's Word at the Unity, Liverpool on Tue 25 Oct, Action Hero's Wrecking Ball at Axis, Crewe on 27 Oct (also coming to the Royal Exchange the following week); and Lola Maury's Figurines + Two To Touch at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford on Fri 29 Oct.  Leeds is also a destination with Yorkshire Dance's Juncture festival (performances 27-30 Oct, including Lucy Suggate, immigrants + animals and Quarantine).  Or you could really push the envelope and join us on the long journey to Ipswich for Spill Festival...

The following week (w/c 31 Oct) seems to be a tale of two cities - in Manchester there's Action Hero, Andy Field, Flexer & Sandiland and Volker Girling; while in Leeds Action Hero pop up again, alongside Mark Thomas

We, meanwhile, are gearing up for the forthcoming Manpower at the Lowry, but, in the meantime, if you've been to a Word of Warning event recently and would like to give us a hand, please complete our online survey - a joint project with Live Art UK & The Audience Agency to learn about national audiences for live art.

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Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2016
Thu 10 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
MANPOWER
Two Destination Language

Tue 22 — Thu 24 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
COMEBACK SPECIAL
Greg Wohead [post-show Q&A Tue 22]

On the eve of October, we at Word of Warning find ourselves poised (dream-on!) for a double outing of all things -ergency, in the shape of both old faithful Em-ergency and shiny new kid Div-ergency! With this full-on explosion of activity please forgive my self-indulgence in this issue - or just skip the next 2 blocks!

From the sensory to the subversive, the emotional to the eccentric: glimpse the heart of Europe; a blinding revelation; gilded scars and a little touch of magic…
First up is the logistical feat that is Emergency 2016 - you'd think that by its 17th outing this would be easy... but no way... 28 works over 11 hours still has huge potential for cataclysmic failure.  So if you want to indulge in the anticipation of schadenfreude - or better still sample the longest running, most varied day of live work going, join us from midday at Z-arts.  See the return of old friends like Simon Bowes (as Ding & sich) and Paul O'Donnell, or meet new faces like Elena Molinaro and Tom Cassani... The programme runs in 4 sessions: 
12noon-2pm: dip in + out of ongoing performances, installations + 1-2-1s;
2pm-4pm: join us for a series of short sit-down shows;
4pm-7pm: see new spaces, ongoing performances, installations + 1-2-1s;
7pm-11pm: a final burst of short sit-down shows.

From the earth beneath our feet to the stars in our skies, an evening of emerging works by a group of artists as diverse as their subject matter…
Next comes Divergency on Thu 6 Oct, also at Z-arts  - a unique insight into eight new works in various stages of development, from first sketches to ready-to-go shows:
Installation:     6-8.30pm. FREE: Jamil E-R Keating |  Chelsea Morgan | Yvonne Shelton
Tabletop Trio: 6pm. £6/3 (very limited capacity): Maya Chowdhry | Afreena Islam | Toni-Dee Paul
Double Bill:      8.30pm. £6/3:  Chanje Kunda | Cheryl Martin

Anyway, if joining us in our double folly doesn't appeal, elsewhere this weekend you can catch Sh!t Theatre's Women's Hour (til 1 Oct) and Jamal Harewood's The Privileged (til 1 Oct) both at HOME; or further afield, Furnace Festival (to 8 Oct) at West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Next week (w/c 3 Oct) is equally busy with Jamie Wood O No! (3-5 Oct) at HOME; and Black Gold Arts Festival at various venues (of which Divergency is a part).   Further afield Vincent Gambini's This is not a magic show is at Axis, Crewe on Tue 4 Oct; and Live Art Bistro, Leeds springs into action with Nicola Hunter's Lost Bodies on Fri 7 Oct, and Panic Lab's Swan Lake II: Dark Waters on Sat 8 Oct.

The following week (w/c 10 Oct) there's Belarus Free Theatre at Contact; and, as part of the ongoing Orbit Festival at HOME you can catch RashDash and Sleepwalk Collective while Waterside, Sale has Mark Thomas.  Beyond Mancunia, Crewe is frenetic with Igor and Moreno, Flexer & Sandiland and Vincent Gambini touring and Live Art Bistro, Leeds has Jamal Gerald.

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Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2016
Sat 1 Oct, 12noon-10pm. FREE | Z-arts
EMERGENCY 2016
A free day-out for the curious

Thu 6 Oct, 6-10pm
DIVERGENCY
An evening of the different
6-8.30pm. FREE | Z-arts
Installation
Jamil Keating | Chelsea Morgan | Yvonne Shelton

6pm. £6/3 (very ltd capacity) | Z-arts
Tabletop Trio
Maya Chowdhry | Afreena Islam | Toni-Dee Paul

8.30pm. £6/3 | STUN Studio/Z-arts
Double Bill
Chanje Kunda | Cheryl Martin

Thu 10 Nov, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
MANPOWER
Two Destination Language

Tue 22 — Thu 24 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
COMEBACK SPECIAL
Greg Wohead [post-show Q&A Tue 22]