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Word of Warning... 

Finally, seemingly, the storms have given way to some relatively clement weather... just hoping it holds out for our little outing to the urban oasis that is Hulme Community Garden Centre next weekend for Tom Marshman's We Need to Talk About Bambi (Sat 13 and Sun 14 June).

Before that, the performance climate has brightened up a bit too.  At The Lowry, you can still catch Luisa Omielan's Am I Right Ladies?! on Sun 7 June; then next week on Wed 10 + Thu 11 June there's Igor and Moreno Idiot-Syncrasy (you may remember Moreno from a rather unique rendition of Nessun Dorma at Emergency in 2012..!)  At Contact on Thu 11 and Fri 12 June there's Moving Dance Forward, featuring Joseph Lau, Bridget Fiske, Christopher Owen and Lisi Perry.

Over the Pennines there's Theatrestate's Tribute Acts at Bradford Theatre in the Mill on Sat 13 June and Kate O'Donnell's Big Girl's Blouse at Slung Low's HUB in Leeds on Sun 14 June. 

The following week parts Mancunian seem a bit quiet again, though there's Stella Grundy in Bradford and Idle Motion in Leeds.
The combined forces of WoW and Derelict meanwhile are off on a daytrip to see Robert Wilson IN Krapp's Last Tape before coming back for WoW's final show of Spring/Summer - Ria Hartley's Matilda and Me.

I'm off to order rain ponchos as insurance to keep the rain away through to next weekend! Have a good week.

Best,

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning... 
Here we're looking forward to a bank holiday weekend and a bit of a lull in proceedings, unless you're headed for a certain homewarming...

Still to come over this weekend, tonight (Fri 22 May) in Liverpool on  there's Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness at the Unity as part of Physical Fest. Last seen at Hazard 2014, Hidden Track's Scavengers also makes an appearance at Chorlton Arts Festival on Sat 23 + Sun 24 May.

Next week brings Chris Thorpe's Confirmation to the Royal Exchange (Tue 26 - Sat 30 May); Leo Burtin's Midnight Soup to Live at LICA on Thu 28th and Instant Dissidence's auto/mobile to Theatre in the Mill on Sat 30 May. Over in Liverpool Physical Fest has, The Wild Trio (Mon 25+ Tue 26 May) and Jamie Wood's O No!  also at the Unity on Sat 30 May. 

The following week (w/c 1 June) worth an glance is Kathryn Beaumont's  I Told You This Would Happen in Bradford and Luisa Omielan's Am I Right Ladies?! at The Lowry. 

I think that's about it for this week - have a good bank holiday!

Best,

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning... 
With the election storm clouds blowing over, we find ourselves in rather calmer theatrical time in these parts, though tonight Fri 15 May you can still see: Ellie Harrison, Bethany Wells + Adam Young's The Unfair at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill have or Guillermo Katz's To Sing at Live at LICA, Lancaster.

In the week ahead (w/c 18 May) in Manchester there's David Hoyle's I Victim on Wed 20 May at Contact.
Further afield, in Bradford at Theatre in the Mill there's the intriguing Luca Rutherford's Learning How To Die; on Tue 19 May, while in Liverpool on Fri 22 May there's Wendy Houstoun's Pact with Pointlessness at the Unity as part of Physical Fest (in which also look out for the Wild Trio (25+ 26 May) and Jamie Wood's O No!  also at the Unity on Sat 30 May.)

The following week brings Chris Thorpe's Confirmation to the Royal Exchange; Leo Burtin to Live at LICA and Instant Dissidence to Theatre in the Mill. 

The summer slumber is creeping ever nearer, though we at WoW still want to entice you out for a seasonal stroll in the garden in June with the lovely Tom Marshman followed by the less al fresco but equally lovely Ria Hartley.


Best,

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning... 
After a long bleak political night, art musings seem a little redundant, save to say that spreading the word that culture matters is going to be ever more vital over the five years ahead...  In lieu of anything more positive to say, here goes with the week ahead.

Contact's Flying Solo (5-9 May) reaches its conclusion but you can still see Ester Natzijl's Watching (Ceci n'est pas de deux), 
Louise Orwin's A Girl And A Gun, and Jackie Hagan's Some People Have Too Many Legs.  We would flag Jamie Lewis-Hadley but it's sold out! Meanwhile in Liverpool, the U-decide Festival at Unity, Coney's Early Days (of a Better Nation) tonight, Fri 8 May.

Next week (w/c 11 May) there's the regular Tales of Whatever at Gulliver's on Wed 13 May and on Thu 14 May, there's Manchester After Hours  including  Li Binyuan's Deathless Love at CFCCA.

Over in Bradford, Theatre in the Mill have Ellie Harrison, Bethany Wells + Adam Young's The Unfair on Wed 13 - Fri 15 May. Up in Lancaster, as part of OPEN15, Live at LICA has Guillermo Katz's To Sing also on Wed 13 - Fri 15 May.

The following week (w/c 18 May) in Manchester there's David Hoyle at Contact, while over in Liverpool there's Wendy Houstoun and Physical Fest.

That brings us to the end of what has been a somewhat 'out of body' mailer - a mildy sprained wrist gained through reckless Bank Holiday D.I.Y  has meant this has been typed by another pair of beautiful hands!
 
Best,

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning...  
Still reeling a little from an intensive week in the dark for Works Ahead, it's just dawned on me that it's MAY already, there's the small matter of an election and there's no time to kick back, as WoW is off again with the tour de force that is Christopher Brett Bailey's This Is How We Die, on Tue 5 + Wed 6 May at Contact.

Before that, still to come this weekend: tonight, Fri 1 May, Sleep Dogs' The Bullet and the Bass Trombone is at the Royal Exchange Studio and Eggs Collective Get A Round is at Bradford's Theatre in The Mill.  Tomorrow, Saturday 2 May there's a sharing of Unfinished Business's Change My Mind project at Contact. Leeds has Transform 2015 at WYP, Leeds (30 April - 2 May) with w-i-p showings including Chris Goode, Invisible Flock and RashDash

The following week (w/c 4 May) is hectic again. Manchester is pretty dominated by Flying Solo (5-9 May) at Contact, of course with the aforementioned Christopher Brett Bailey's This Is How We Die, plus another chance to see thevacuumcleaner's Mental. There are also intriguing contributions from Louise Orwin and Jamie Lewis-Hadley, Cheryl Martin, Jackie Hagan and more. Elsewhere, there's also Jennifer Willet's Monday's Scrapbook performance installation at Media City, Salford.

Election week meanwhile also brings the U-decide Festival to Unity, Liverpool including: Jess Thom's Backstage in Biscuit Land on Tue 5 May, Chris Thorpe's Confirmation on Wed 6 May, Daniel Bye's Unheard Party on Thu 7 May, and Coney's Early Days (of a Better Nation) on Fri 8 May. Live at LICA, as part of OPEN15, similarly has political commentary in the shape of Andy Smith's The Preston Bill on Thu 7 May.

The following week brings a bit of calm (though possibly a new government!), but Bradford's Theatre in the Mill has Ellie Harrison and collaborators and the Manchester galleries host Manchester After Hours, including CFCCA's Li Binyuan's Deathless Love.

best

Tamsin

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015
5+6 May, 8pm. £11/7 | Flying Solo at Contact
THIS IS HOW WE DIE
Christopher Brett Bailey [Q+A Tue 5]

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning...  
I find myself emerging, blinking from the castle tower that is Contact Space 2, to check out the rumour that it's been summer in the outside world... only to find it's all about to end!  On the upside we do have a double bill of work, so new the paint's still wet, tonight, Fri 24 and tomorrow Sat 25 April: Works Ahead** featuring Jamil Keating's Affected + Nathan Birkinshaw's How I Lost The Will To Live...

Elsewhere, tonight there's also Idle Motion's Shooting With Light at the Lowry and Simon Brewis's Tea With A Chimp (w-i-p) at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill; then on Sun 26 April Caroline Horton's Penelope Retold at the HUB, Leeds.

Next week, there's a choice of dance on Thu 30 April with EdgeFWD at Z-arts;  and I heard tell that Hofesh Schechter is also in town til Sat 2 May. On Fri 1 May there's Sleep Dogs' The Bullet and the Bass Tromobone at the Royal Exchange Studio; Eggs Collective Get A Round at Bradford's Theatre in The Mill; and on Saturday 2 May Unfinished Business's Change My Mind project at Contact.
Over in Leeds there's also Transform 2015 at WYP, Leeds (30 May - 2 June) with w-i-p showings including Chris Goode, Invisible Flock and RashDash.

The following week (w/c 4 May) is pretty dominated by Flying Solo (5-9 May) at Contact, and there's also Chris Thorpe and more at Unity Liverpool.

Time to dive back into my natural mole-like home, a windowless black-box, to put the finishing touches on the feast of non-traditional masculinity that is Works Ahead**.

best

Tamsin
** PLEASE NOTE
Due to mechanical breakdown, Works Ahead is only accessible by stairs (two floors). Word of Warning and Contact apologise to any potential audience member for whom this is not possible.

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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015
24+25 Apr, 8pm. £6/3 | Contact | Double Bill
WORKS AHEAD 2015
Nathan Birkinshaw | Jamil Keating

5+6 May, 8pm. £11/7 | Flying Solo at Contact
THIS IS HOW WE DIE
Christopher Brett Bailey [Q+A Tue 5]

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley

Word of Warning...  
Here at WoW headquarters it's a virtual frenzy of activity gearing up for the coming Works Ahead.  Whilst some of the excesses of dildo kabuki drops and live cats on stage may have been curbed, next week promises some real surprises - for us as well as you!

Before all that, in Preston, Derelict reaches its climax on Saturday 18  April with Forensic (13 sited performances and one to ones in UCLan's Forensic Houses) and, in the town centre, Search Party's Save Me,  and Hunt & Darton Cafe (at Korova Arts Café), rounding off with Action Hero's Hoke's Bluff at the Media Factory and back to the Cafe to finish with Lydia Cotrell's Bolero.

In the week ahead Idle Motion's Shooting With Light is at the Lowry 22-24 April and in Yorkshire, Simon Brewis's Tea With A Chimp (w-i-p) is at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill on Fri 24 April, and Caroline Horton Penelope Retold is at the HUB, Leeds on Sun 26 April.

Of course, THE place to be on Fri 24 or Sat 25 April is at Contact for Works Ahead featuring Jamil Keating's Affected + Nathan Birkinshaw's How I Lost The Will To Live... a double-bill of new works in development for the extremely reasonable price of £6/3!

The following week sees a flurry of activity, with EdgeFWD at Z-arts; Sleep Dogs at the Royal Exchange Studio; Unfinished Business at Contact; Eggs Collective at Bradford Theatre in The Mill; Transform 2015 at WYP, Leeds; and the small matter of a building opening with Hofesh Schechter!

best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2015
24+25 Apr, 8pm. £6/3 | Contact | Double Bill
WORKS AHEAD 2015
Nathan Birkinshaw | Jamil Keating

5+6 May, 8pm. £11/7 | Flying Solo at Contact
THIS IS HOW WE DIE
Christopher Brett Bailey [Q+A Tue 5]

13+14 Jun, various. £5/3 | Hulme Garden Ctr
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT BAMBI
Tom Marshman [booking essential]

25 Jun, 7.30pm. £5/3 | STUN Studio at Z-arts
MATILDA AND ME
Ria Hartley