Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

This week sees me eschew sunshine for deep dark spaces in the bowels of Contact; the rumblings of Lucy McCormick's choreography is thundering just above my head as we gear up for the opening of Works Ahead (today Fri 3+ tomorrow Sat 4 Jun).  In a full building takeover, Compact Edition takes you from bottom to top of this capacious building for two very intimate experiences with Terri Donovan and Afreena Islam; while Evening Edition occupies both performance spaces for an unexpected and possibly incendiary double bill from Top Joe and Lucy McCormick.

Elsewhere, on Sun 5 Jun you can catch Victoria Melody's Hair Peace at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds; or if you are in the Lakes, catch AND Festival's Workshops in People’s Homes, programmed by Joshua Sofaer with Sue Thurley’s The Holy Grain on Sun 5 June and Di Larfynn’s Come As You Are on Wed 8 Jun.

NEAT16 also continues in Nottingham (until 12 June) including Michael Pinchbeck, Cloudcuckoolanders, Rachael Young and video performance from Gob Squad; plus a full programme of dance, courtesy of Dance4 - including Leila MacMillan and Lucy Suggate.

Coming up next week (w/c 6 Jun) is Sophie Willan's On Record at the Lowry (Fri 10+ Sat 11 Jun), RITE at Islington Mill (Fri 10 Jun) and Unfinished Business + Baba Israel's The Spinning Wheel at Contact (Sat 11 Jun).

The following week (w/c 13 Jun) look out for Jamal Gerald at Bradford Theatre in the Mill; Proto-type Theater at the HUB, Leeds and Re:Con's Unexpected Items audio tour in Bury Market.

The ceiling soundtrack has shifted from Lionel Richie to Boogie Wonderland, which I think might be my cue that there's a run about to happen.  Please do join us tonight or tomorrow in a basement or a theatre space at Contact to see the outcomes of all this at Works Ahead.

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                   
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

As June hovers on the horizon and, following Sunday's truly glamorous (?!) film premiere (coming soon to a YouTube near you), Word of Warning is now officially halfway through Spring/Summer.  We are, however, already in full production mode for Works Ahead, bringing four new commissions from four artists at very different points in their careers (3+4 June at Contact).

Before that, however, you can catch Hidden Track's Standard Elite at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sun 29 May; and over at Physical Fest, Liverpool there's Onur Orkut and Fionnuala Dorrity (til tonight Fri 27 May) and Wendy Houstoun (28 May).

While things are a bit quiet in these parts, a bit further afield but worth a trip, is NEAT16 in Nottingham (until 12 June). Whilst I find their website utterly impenetrable, downloading the brochure reveals there's some interesting stuff on - including Michael Pinchbeck, Cloudcuckoolanders, Rachael Young and video performance from Gob Squad; dance courtesy of Dance4 - including Leila MacMillan and Lucy Suggate; plus Font Festival (til 31 May) including The Gramophones, Handmade Theatre, Olwen Davies.

Next week (w/c 30 May) the only place to be seen, of course is WoW's very own Works Ahead at Contact on Fri 3 + Sat 4 June.  Two very new and wildly divergent double bills: in the afternoons' Compact Edition we journey into Contact's hidden spaces with Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam for two intimate and intense stories of lives half-remembered; then in the Evening Edition, we take over both theatre spaces for the health and safety-conscious Top Joe, channeling Ross Kemp and James Dyson; and the utterly unpredictable and definitely outrageous Lucy McCormick - in what she's terming a trashstep-dubpunk morality play for the modern age! (nb apologies wordofwarning.org has developed some inexplicable gremlins that we are struggling to fix, please bear with us!) 

If we haven't sated you with Works Ahead, on Sun 5 June you can catch Victoria Melody's Hair Peace at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds, or the following week (w/c 6 Jun), looking out for Sophie Willan at the Lowry, RITE at Islington Mill and Unfinished Business + Baba Israel at Contact.

Hoping to encounter you in the basement at Contact!

Best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                   
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

So time seems to be continuing to move at an alarmingly accelerated pace - certainly much faster than my workload (and my bad pun brain) affords - so here's a rather brief round-up of the next couple of weeks:

This weekend you can still catch The Wardrobe Ensembles' 1972: The Future of Sex (Fri 20 May) or 2Magpies Theatre's Ventoux (Sat 21 May) at the Lowry; The Larks' The Switchover (Sat 21 + Sun 22 May) at Chorlton Arts Festival; and at HOME, the ongoing double bill featuring Conker Group's Gutted and Eggs Collective's Late Night Love (til 21 May) - not to mention HOME's First Birthday weekend...

Speaking of which, on Sunday 22 May you might still be able to join Word of Warning at HOME for Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective's Queer As Yolk: Redux.  Part performance, part mini-film premiere - it's an (ir)reverent director's cut with a difference! Whilst it is technically sold-out, as a free event there could well be returns - so it may be worth coming on spec (and if you have a ticket that you aren't planning to use, please let HOME's box office know on 0161 200 1500).

Next week (w/c 23 May) things seem a bit on the quiet side: in parts Mancunian look out for Penny Arcade's Longing Lasts Longer on Thu 26 May at Contact and Hidden Track's Standard Elite at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sun 29 May.  Further afield, to the west at Physical Fest, Liverpool there's Fest Live (25 May), Onur Orkut (26+27 May) and Wendy Houstoun (28 May); and to the east, at Theater Delicatessen, Sheffield there's Chris Dubrowski's Antarctica (Wed 25 May).

The following week (w/c 30 May) I couldn't possibly talk about anything other than WoW's very own Works Ahead at Contact (largely because I haven't come across anything else yet!)  Two very new double bills by four artists at different stages in their careers - join us on 3 or 4 June for Compact Edition with Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam and Evening Edition with Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.

Hoping to see you at HOME.

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

What a difference a week makes - from snowstorm to heatwave in less than 7 days. Seasonal discombobulation continues and while Hulme Park is blazing (albeit rather mottled today), in the icy wilds of the Word of Warning office where the sun never shines, we are still huddled round a candle in mittens and sheepskin slippers!

This weekend you can still catch Week 53 Festival's sited Dante or Die's Handle with Care (til 8 May) and 2 Magpies' Last Resort (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); Volcano Theatre's Century Song (6-8 May) and Robbie Synge's Douglas (Sat 7 May) plus Rimini Protokoll's 100% Salford (Sat 7 + Sun 8 May). 

Contact's Flying Solo 2016 (5-14 May) is also getting into its stride with Matt Miller's Sticking and Stuart Bowden's She Was Probably Not A Robot both on Sat 7 May.

Josh Coates's Get Yourself Together is at the Royal Exchange (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); and further afield in Lancaster, today Fri 6 May there's Eggs Collective's Late Night Love (Dukes Theatre) and Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup (Storey Institute) - both also coming to parts Mancunian w/c 16 May.

Next week (w/c 9 May) look out for Claire Cunningham's Give Me A Reason To Live  at the Lowry on Tue 10 May.

Meanwhile, at Contact's Flying Solo 2016 there's Louise Wallwein's Glue and Jenna Watt's Faslane (both Tue 10 + Wed 11 May). While Ria Hartley's Untouchable and Cheryl Martin's Alaska are both sold-out, you could also check out Igor Vrebrac (Thu 12 May) or Ben Mellor + Kate O'Donnell (both on Fri 13 + Sat 14 May).

The following week (w/c 16 May) for those of a physical theatre bent, Liverpool picks up the festival vibe with Physical Fest (20-28 May) while in parts Mancunian Leo Burtin is at Sale Waterside and Eggs Collective are at HOME. 
We, at WoW will also serving up a Sunday double-yolked scramble from the aforementioned Eggs with self-styled film auteur Richard Dedomenici premiering Queer As Yolk: Redux also at HOME.
Enjoy your eggs sunny-side up - it won't last!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

Sticking with the theme of regally unseasonal weather, as we struggle with the return to full-on winter, at least there's a frantic schedule of indoor work to shelter us from this almost antipodean meteorological confusion. 

Still to come this weekend there's Clod Ensemble's An Anatomie in Four Quarters (til 30 Apr), as the opening event of the Lowry's Week 53 Festival; Made in China's Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me at the Royal Exchange (also til 30 Apr); a two day sonic feast with Rosanne Robertson's Too Much at the Penthouse (previewing tonight Fri 29 Apr) and Weisslich 7 at Nexus Art Cafe on Sat 30 Apr; and, over in Liverpool, at the Unity Daniel Bye's Going Viral (29+30 Apr).

As May lands, next week (w/c 2 May) Week 53 Festival remains a strong contender with Thaddeus Phillips 17 Border Crossings (Tue 3 + Wed 4 May); and, at the more theatre end of the scale, the sited Dante or Die's Handle with Care (5-8 May) and 2 Magpies' Last Resort (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May); more visually oriented are Volcano Theatre's Century Song (6-8 May) and Robbie Synge's Douglas;  and, for me most intriguing is Rimini Protokoll's 100% Salford (Sat 7 + Sun 8 May).  If you're in the mood for partying there's also The Dock Launch Party (Thu 5 May).

Though I'm not sure where my horse-racing metaphors are coming from, Contact's Flying Solo 2016 (5-14 May) is also coming up on the rails.  First out of the potentially WoW-friendly gates, on Sat 7 May, come two spoken word offerings with Matt Miller's Sticking (Sat 7 May) and Stuart Bowden's She Was Probably Not A Robot.

Beyond the festival field, also look out for Josh Coates's Get Yourself Together (Fri 6 + Sat 7 May) at the Royal Exchange; and in Lancaster, Eggs Collective's Late Night Love (Dukes Theatre) and Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup (Storey Institute) both on Fri 6 May.

The following week (w/c 9 May) Flying Solo at Contact really takes over - with Ria Hartley, Jenna Watt, Louise Wallwein and Cheryl Martin (proud to say all have formerly played the WoW-card!) Elsewhere, also not to be missed is Claire Cunningham at the Lowry.

I'm hoping that I've managed to make at least some sense of the somewhat complex landscape of the next couple of weeks - all I've got to do now is figure out which bits I'm going to make it to!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 5pm + 6pm. £4/2 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam
Hidden stories and half-remembered truths.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD EVENING EDITION
Top Joe + Lucy McCormick
From Dyson to the Passion - an unpredictable double bill.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

On this sad, seasonally confused morning, the Guardian's purple rain forecast (scroll down) seems apt... and with the next couple of weeks presenting an increasingly complex picture, my head is whirring just a bit...

Before I attempt to navigate a path through the next fortnight,  a different kind of whirl keeps tonight and tomorrow simple, as Turn 2016 comes twirling and twizzling through Contact's doors.  With artists way too numerous to name, you can catch 10 pieces tonight (Fri 22) and 11 completely different pieces tomorrow (Sat 23 Apr); and with the *extremely* reasonable 2 night pass on offer (£11/6), it's an easy way to fill your entire dance card for the year in one go!

If you really must, I guess you could complicate things and still catch Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead (til 23 Apr) at the Royal Exchange; or Transform Festival (22+23 Apr) in Leeds - featuring Chris Goode + Co's Wanted and Holzinger + Riebeek's Schönheitsabend or even, in Liverpool, Mark Thomas's Trespass at the Everyman + Playhouse also tonight, Fri 22 Apr.

Next week (w/c 25 Apr) things start to get a bit frantic with: Made in China's Tonight I'm Gonna Be The New Me at the Royal Exchange (28-30 Apr); sonic bursts courtesy of Rosanne Robertson's Too Much at the Penthouse (previewing on Fri 29 Apr) and Weisslich 7 at Nexus Art Cafe on Sat 30 Apr.   Further afield, the HUB, Leeds has Andy Smith's The Preston Bill on Tue 26 Apr; in Preston itself the Continental has LaPelle's Factory's Cloudcuckoolanders on Wed 27 Apr and Eggs Collective's Late Night Love on Thu 28 Apr; and the Unity, Liverpool has Daniel Bye's Going Viral (29+30 Apr).

The main event in parts Mancunian however is the arrival of the Week 53 Festival (28 April - 8 May) at the Lowry - make sure to check out its hub in the Dock.  Most WoW notable in this first week is Clod Ensemble's An Anatomie in Four Quarters (28-30 Apr).  Looking ahead to the following week (w/c 2 May) also look out for Thaddeus Phillips, Volcano Theatre and, particularly, Rimini Protokoll.

The week of 2 May sees a veritable festival clash with Contact's Flying Solo 2016 kicking off (5-14 May) - though fear not as the most WoW-like activity takes place the following week, but you might want to give Matt Miller and Stuart Bowden a look. Also in w/c 2 May, look out for  Josh Coates at the Royal Exchange; and Eggs Collective and Leo Burtin in Lancaster.

I hope that hasn't worn you out as much as compiling it has me!  I'm off to chomp on an energy bar while borrowing some of the exuberant energy generated by tonight's Turn!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

So, despite threatened snow, the shoots of spring might finally be appearing; the students are returning and we've got a little dance-fuelled spring in our steps with the almost embarrassingly lithe and bendy Turn on the horizon...

But before that, don't forget to make a foray up to Derelict which continues in Preston with Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (until 16 Apr); the very in demand epicurean delights of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party tonight Fri 15 + tomorrow Sat 16 Apr; plus The Larks' Join Me, also tomorrow, Sat 16 April. 
Looking east - over in Sheffield the Wrought Festival kicks off tonight Fri 15 April (til 17 Apr) featuring Michael Pinchbeck, Ant Hampton, Third Angel, Ellie Harrison + Jaye Kearney and more.

Next week (w/c 18 April), we at WoW will be firmly ensconced in Contact for Turn 2016 (Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr). From the virtuosic to the quizzical with a touch of techno-interactivity for good measure, 21 new pieces of dance spread over two (very) full evenings - featuring Jo Ashbridge, Bridget Fiske, Tom Bowes Dance, Gracefool Collective, Adam John Roberts, Giorgio de Carolis, Sap Dance and many, many more.

The venues are all back into the swing of things with Unlimited Theatre's Am I Dead (20-23 Apr) at the Royal Exchange; Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness on Wed 21 Apr at the Lowry; Transform Festival (22+23 Apr) in Leeds - featuring Chris Goode + Co's Wanted and Holzinger + Riebeek's Schönheitsabend; plus, in Liverpool, Mark Thomas's Trespass is at the Everyman + Playhouse on Fri 22 Apr.

The following week (w/c 25 Apr) keeps busy with: Made in China at the Royal Exchange; LaPelle's Factory and Eggs Collective at the Continental, Preston; Daniel Bye at the Unity, Liverpool; Andy Smith at the HUB, Leeds; and the arrival of the Week 53 Festival (28 April - 8 May) at the Lowry.

I'm off to indulge in Zuppa's Michelin-starred gastronomy before limbering up for the frenetic whirl of Turn!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.

So as another week closes, we're all hugged out in Manchester, but our partners, Derelict, in Preston might still give you a good HUGging - tomorrow, Sat 9 Apr at the Harris Museum. 

This weekend and next is all about unusual festivals, up in Glasgow there's Buzzcut (til 10 Apr - look out for Lucy McCormick, coming soon to a Works Ahead near you!) while a bit closer, Derelict kicks into action tonight in Preston, with the aforementioned Verity Standen's HUG (Fri 8 Apr + Sat 9 Apr); continuing with Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April); the unique gastronomy of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 Apr plus a special flash of The Larks' Join Me, also on Sat 16 April.  While over the hills in Sheffield, next weekend, you can also check out the Wrought Festival of one-to-ones (15-17 April).

The following week (w/c 18 April), the rather discombobulated easter seems finally to be over and you can catch Unlimited Theatre at the Royal Exchange; Wendy Houstoun at the Lowry; Transform Festival in Leeds and Mark Thomas in Liverpool.

Word of Warning, meanwhile, will also be twizzling back into action at Contact, with our annual foray into the world of dance - Turn 2016 (Fri 22 + Sat 23 April).  While you're all having a HUG in Preston, save a thought for us - it's not all hugs and air-kisses here at WoW - we'll be spending the day trying to unpick the logistical intricacies of staging 21 pieces of dance in two nights!

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016

Thu 7 Apr, 6-9pm. By donation | Thursday Lates at the Whitworth
Fri 8 Apr, 6-8pm; Sat 9 Apr, 1-5pm. Free | Harris Museum, Preston
HUG
Verity Standen
‘Song erupts around you... startling, moving and genuinely immersive.’ The Guardian           
[Limited capacity, see website]
               
Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
                     
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici. 
          
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
      
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
          
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
          
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
     
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.