Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Just crawling out of the xmas lull to ask for your help...

Word of Warning is working with The Audience Agency and our national colleagues in Live Art UK, to try and get a better picture of audiences nationally.

If you've been to one of our events over the past two seasons*, and fancy a bit of a break from festive frenzy, we'd be really grateful if you would take a few minutes to fill out our online survey. Your answers are confidential and only used for research purposes. (Direct survey link: http://research.audiencesurveys.org/s.asp?k=144976563660)

*Events you might have been to are:
Stacy Makishi at Contact, 17+18 November
Darren Pritchard in the STUN Studio at Z-arts, 25 June
Emergency 2015 at Z-arts, 3 October
Domestic II at Matthias Court (Salford), 24/25/26 September
Ria Hartley in the STUN Studio at Z-arts, 25 June
Tom Marshman at Hulme Community Garden Centre, 13+14 June
Christopher Brett Bailey at Contact, 5+6 May
Works Ahead (Jamil Keating + Nathan Birkinshaw) at Contact, 24+25 April

Many thanks and see you in the New Year

best

Tamsin


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So, basking as we are in the warm sunlight of the Chancellor's less-draconian-than-expected Spending Review, Word of Warning has reached the end of its fourth year of existence - and hopes to be around for a couple more at least.

Things are trickling towards the end of the year but tonight, Fri 27 Nov you can still catch Uninvited Guests' This Last Tempest at Contact; and, tonight and tomorrow, in Bradford, Selina Thompson's Dark and Lovely at Theatre in the Mill.

Next week, on Fri 4 Dec you can see Scottee's Camp at the Citadel in St Helens; Panic Lab's R.I.O.T at Lancaster Arts; and on Sat 5 Dec, LaPelle's Factory's CLOUDCUCKOOLANDERS at Live Art Bistro, Leeds.  Thereafter, things really quieten down for the year - but before the full-blown panto takeover you could check out Mother's Ruin, CYC's How To Be Better and Forced Entertainment The Possible Impossible House in Lancaster.

For those of you heading south for Xmas and who can't resist a panto, you might want to check out our very own Ben Faulks starring alongside Katie Price and Anita Dobson in Sleeping Beauty in Woking!!

Meanwhile this update is going to take a break, while I retreat into my grinch-like hole. We'll be back when the world wakes up a bit in early/mid January, with news of our new Spring season.  Have a good end of year.


Tamsin


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We at WoW are still reeling a little from the whirling dervish that was storm Stacy - a truly fitting end to our season.  While we bid farewell to our bright pink header, elsewhere, there's a bit to come before tatfest really takes over...

This weekend, in Manchester, Chris Goode's Men In The Cities is ongoing at the Royal Exchange (til 21 Nov); and Ursula Martinez's Free Admission is at Contact tomorrow Sat 21 Nov.

Meanwhile, all eyes are on the west, where tonight, Fri 20 Nov, The Bluecoat has Mandy Romero's Scandinavia Has Been Good To Me and St Helens Heart of Glass has Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall at The Citadel (£5 ticket offer). Tomorrow, Sat 21 Nov, the Through the Looking Glass weekender continues in St Helens, featuring Joshua Sofaer + Karen Christopher's This Will Never Happen, Susannah Hewlett + Steve Nice’s Pedigree Chums and Marcia Farquhar's A Song for St Helens - plus the last couple of days of Hunt and Darton Cafe.

Next week (w/c 23 Nov), Uninvited Guests' This Last Tempest is at Contact on Thu 26 + Fri 27 Nov. Further afield, in Bradford, Selina Thompson's Dark and Lovely is at Theatre in the Mill, (25-27 Nov); and in Preston Figs in Wigs Show Off is at the Continental on Wed 25 Nov.  Lancaster Arts is busy all week with two double bills: on Tue 24 Nov there's Chris Brett Bailey's This Is How We Die (paired with The Litvinenko Project) and on Thu 26 Nov there's Jamie Wood's Beating McEnroe (paired with Figs in Wigs).

The following week sees the real start of xmas slow-down but look out for Scottee's Camp in St Helens, Panic Lab in Lancaster, and LaPelle's Factory in Leeds.

I meanwhile am off to fend off the requests for us to organise a xmas party (you know who you are!) and to try and find a suitable colour for Spring 2016!

Best

Tamsin


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So as we all cower in the sunshine from media-storm Abigail and the joys of Friday the 13th, those brave enough to venture out tonight, can catch Greg Wohead's Comeback Special (wip) at Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and, over in St Helens, Le Gateau Chocolat and the lovely Hunt and Darton Cafe (ongoing until 22 Nov).

Next week (w/c 16 Nov), for us at WoW it's all about Stacy Makishi's Vesper Time at Contact on Tue 17 and Wed 18 Nov.
A subversive sermon is an accurate take on it, and I know I'm biased but it's genuinely one of the best shows I saw last year, so don't miss it!

Elsewhere in Mancunia, there's Chris Goode's Men In The Cities at the Royal Exchange (19-21 Nov); Rani Moorthy's Whose Sari Now on Thu 19 Nov at The Lowry; and, back at Contact, Ursula Martinez's Free Admission on Sat 21 Nov. 

In Preston, Reckless Sleepers' Last Supper is at the Continental on Wed 18 + Thu 19 Nov; and in Liverpool, Mandy Romero's Scandinavia Has Been Good To Me is at The Bluecoat on Fri 20 Nov.

Meanwhile, St Helens Heart of Glass kicks it up another level with the Through the Looking Glass weekender (20+21 Nov), featuring, amongst others, Joshua Sofaer + Karen Christopher and Marcia Farquhar, it kicks off on Fri 20 Nov with Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall (click for special limited £5 ticket offer).

The following week (w/c 23 Nov) look out for Chris Brett Bailey and Jamie Wood in Lancaster; Selina Thompson in Bradford and Uninvited Guests at Contact.

Hoping to see lots of you at Stacy Makishi's Vesper Time at Contact. If my heartfelt endorsement isn't enough, we may be a bit giddy as it's also our final show of the year and John Franklin's birthday (he of the bright red trousers, hats and guyliner), so join us to see if Ms Makishi can turn his face the colour of his trousers...

Best

Tamsin


PS. DON'T MISS on BBC Four: On Stage: Live from Television Centre this Sunday 15 Nov 9-11pm featuring, Richard Dedomenici, Common Wealth's
No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, Gecko and Touretteshero.

PPS. Don't forget the Duckie special £5 ticket offer

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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2015

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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And so here we are in chilly balmy November,  the air still fuggy from last night's bangers, the supermarket aisles already filled with yuletide tat and the end of the Word of Warning season peeping over the horizon..!

If you aren't staring forlornly at a damp bonfire, this weekend over in Leeds you can still catch Chris Goode's Men In The Cities at WYP (til 7 Nov); and tomorrow, Sat 7 Nov,  Season Butler's Happiness Forgets is at Live Art Bistro while Unity, Liverpool has Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse.

Next week (w/c 9 Nov), Manchester's a bit quiet but there's a good smattering of work around the region.  On Tue 10 Nov there's  Mary Pearson's Sand Dog Cometh at Edgehill and Chris Thorpe's Confirmation at Axis, Crewe. Wed 11 Nov has Drunken Nights at The Devonshire Cat in Sheffield and Tales of Whatever at The Castle. Thu 12 Nov sees Clod Ensemble's The Red Chair at The Lowry; and Lola Maury + Hannah Buckley' Two to Tune and S/HE  at Axis, Crewe. Fri 13 Nov brings Greg Wohead's Comeback Special (wip) to Theatre in the Mill, Bradford and Le Gateau Chocolat to St Helens Heart of Glass (who also have a intriguing manifesto-making workshop with The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home on Sat 14 Nov).

The following week (w/c 16 Nov) it's all go again in parts Mancunian with Chris Goode at the Royal Exchange; Rani Moorthy at The Lowry; and Ursula Martinez at Contact. To the west there's also Mandy Romero at The Bluecoat, and it's also well worth planning a trip to St Helens for the Through the Looking Glass weekender at Heart of Glass (20 + 21 Nov).  Featuring Joshua Sofaer + Karen Christopher and Marcia Farquhar, it kicks off with Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall (see below for competition).
Meanwhile, back in Mancunia the truly unmissable event of the week is Word of Warning's final show of the season with a return to Contact of the very marvellous Stacy Makishi.

Best

Tamsin

STOP PRESS - DUCKIE COMPETITION
For the chance to win TICKETS and TRAVEL (from Manchester) to Duckie's 21st Century Music Hall at The Citadel Theatre in St. Helens on Fri 20 Nov, tweet the name of a music track you want to hear to @theheartofglass signing off with #DuckieMancTunes.
Competition closes 8pm Tuesday, November 10th.


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Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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So as the witching hour approaches, still to see this week in Manchester: those of a scientific bent can experiment with the Manchester Science Festival Bloodlines tonight Fri 30 Oct at Martin Harris Centre; while the young at heart can see Forced Entertainment's The Possible Impossible House at Z-arts tomorrow, Sat 31 Oct (11am + 2.30pm); and Contact has KILN's Lady GoGo Goch, evening of Sat 31 Oct. 
Further afield, Chris Goode's Weaklings is also at Bradford Theatre in the Mill tonight, Fri 30 Oct.

Next week (w/c 2 Nov) in the Manchester environs, Carran Waterfield's The House is at the Martin Harris Centre (3+4 Nov click Whats On to find 4 Nov) and La Merda is at the Lowry (5+6 Nov).  Elsewhere, West Yorkshire Playhouse has Chris Thorpe's Confirmation (2-4 Nov) and the prolific Chris Goode's Men In The Cities (5-7 Nov). Uninvited Guests' Love Letters Straight From Your Heart is at the Continental in Preston on Wed 4 Nov; Sarah Woods's The Roadless Trip is at Lancaster Arts on Thu 5 Nov;  and on Sat 7 Nov Kate O'Donnell's Big Girls Blouse is at the Unity, Liverpool while Season Butler's Happiness Forgets is at Live Art Bistro, Leeds.

The following week (w/c 9 Nov) there's Chris Thorpe and Lola Maury + Hannah Buckley at Axis, Crewe; Mary Pearson at Edgehill; Drunken Nights in Sheffield; Clod Ensemble at The Lowry; Greg Wohead at Theatre in the Mill; and Le Gateau Chocolat and a manifesto-making workshop with The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home both at St Helens Heart of Glass.

Aside from whether to dress less like a witch for Halloween, the big question of the week is whether to Spill or not to Spill...

Best

Tamsin

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Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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As this partcularly hectic week draws to a close, in parts Mancunian you can still see:
Black Gold, which is in full swing at STUN Studio at Z-arts featuring: tonight Fri 23 Oct, Cheryl Martin's Alaska (tickets still available) + Keisha Thompson's I Wish I Had a Moustache; and, tomorrow Sat 24 Oct, Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam.  You can also still catch excerpts from Darren Pritchard's Body of Light at Manchester Science Festival at MOSI today Fri 23 + Sat 24 Oct.
Rash Dash's We Want You To Watch and Coney's The Green Gold Conspiracy both at The Lowry tonight Fri 23 Oct, with Coney also at Chester Zoo on Sat 24 Oct.

To the east, today Fri 23 Oct, in Leeds you can catch Live Art Bistro's ORBIT showcase; Grace Surman's Things Stack Up at Bradford Theatre in the Mill and DV8's John (ongoing til 24 Oct) at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
To the west, there's sited work aplenty courtesy of On The Verge in Liverpool (til 25 Oct) and Warrington Contemporaries' Encounters on Sat 24 Oct; while at St Helens Heart of Glass there's Marisa Carnesky's Haunted Furnace at the World of Glass, today Fri 23 Oct + tomorrow Sat 24 Oct (shows at 7+8 pm. Booking is confusing and may be in person only - try calling the Citadel Box Office on 01744 735436 or World of Glass on 01744 22766).

Next week, (w/c 26 Oct) in Manchester, Contact has New Art Club's Hercules on Thu 29 Oct and KILN's Lady GoGo Goch on Sat 31 Oct; meanwhile Forced Entertainment's The Possible Impossible House lands at Z-arts on Sat 31 Oct (11am + 2.30pm).  For those of a scientific bent, there's also an intriguing Manchester Science Festival event Bloodlines on Fri 30 Oct at Martin Harris Centre.

Further afield, Two Destination Language's Manpower is at Derelict, Preston on Wed 28 Oct; while Thu 29 Oct is generally busy with Greg Wohead's The Ted Bundy Project at Warrington Contemporary; Two Destination Language at Edgehill; and Chris Goode's Weaklings at Axis, Crewe (also at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Fri 30 Oct); .

The following week (w/c 2 Nov), it's Chris-Mas at WYP, Leeds with both Chris Thorpe and Chris Goode. Uninvited Guests are in Preston; La Merda is at the Lowry; Kate O'Donnell is in Liverpool and Marisa Carnesky is back in St Helens.

This weekend I'll be attempting to be in several places at once - holding forth at the On the Verge Transformations panel on Saturday, followed by a quick scoot round the festival then re-materialsing back in Manchester for Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam at Black Gold later that same day.

Best

Tamsin

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Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi

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Word of Warning Autumn/Winter 2015 is brought to you by hÅb with Contact, The Guinness Partnership, STUN + Z-arts

Ok, here goes with a more than normally breathless run-down... this week you can still catch 1927's Golem at HOME til Sat 17th and Leo Burtin's The Midnight Soup at Café Lux in Pudsey tonight, Fri 16 Oct, as part of Love Arts Leeds. Then, make the most of Sunday + Monday as next week is intense; and a sensible way of organising it eludes me, so here's a straight, roughly geographic, listing:

In parts Mancunian you can see:
Forced Entertainment's The Notebook at Contact (20-22 Oct);
Black Gold at STUN Studio at Z-arts featuring Darren Pritchard's Body of Light  on Thu 22 Oct (and excerpts at Manchester Science Festival at MOSI on Fri 23 + Sat 24 Oct); Cheryl Martin's Alaska on 22 + 23 Oct; Keisha Thompson's I Wish I Had a Moustache on Fri 23 Oct and Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam on Sat 24 Oct;
Rash Dash's We Want You To Watch (22/23 Oct) and Russell Maliphant's Conceal/Reveal (also 22 Oct) at the Lowry (nb leave extra time as the only Accessible parking is now the pay car park);
Coney's The Green Gold Conspiracy at The Lowry on Fri 23 Oct and at Chester Zoo on Sat 24 Oct (nb you do get a meal for the price of the ticket...)

Further afield look out for:
Quarantine's Autumn at Lancaster Arts (formerly Live at LICA formerly The Nuffield) on 20 + 21 Oct; 
2FacedDance Dreaming Code at LBT Huddersfield on Tue 20 Oct;
Andy Smith's The Preston Bill  at The Continental, Preston  (21/22 Oct);
Candoco Double Bill at Blackpool Grand on Wed 21 Oct;
DV8's John at West Yorkshire Playhouse (22-24 Oct);
Ricardo Buscarini's No Lander at Axis Crewe on Thu 22 Oct;
Grace Surman's Things Stack Up at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Fri 23 Oct;
Robert Softly If These Spasms Could Speak at St Helen's Heart of Glass on Sat 24 Oct. 

Looking to the west, it's festival-time with On The Verge in Liverpool (22-25 Oct) - catching my interest is AR-Tea Collective's HeartBrokers; The Lemon Collective's AlieNation and the On The Verge 1:1s.  Meanwhile down the road in Warrington there's the Encounters sited event bringing live art to the town centre.

Don't expect anything to calm down the following week as New Art Club and KILN are at Contact and Forced Entertainment are back, this time to Z-arts, to appeal to the young at heart.
In a bid for ubiquity, Forced Entertaiment are also in Huddersfield while Chris Goode is at Axis, Crewe and Bradford Theatre in the Mill; Greg Wohead is in Warrington and Two Destination Language are in Preston and Edgehill. Meanwhile, for the truly dedicated, Spill Festival is on in London (if you look REALLY hard you can work out it's 28 Oct - 8 November).

We at WoW are just a little daunted by entering into this particularly frenetic fray, but, of course, you'll be foregoing all the rest to join us, Darren Pritchard and the Black Gold line-up, here within Z-arts (22-24 Oct). 

Best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2015

Thu 22 Oct, 8pm. £8/5 | STUN Studio at Z-arts as part of Black Gold Arts Festival
BODY OF LIGHT
Darren Pritchard

Tue 17 + Wed 18 Nov, 8pm. £13/7 | Contact
VESPER TIME
Stacy Makishi


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