Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Word of Warning...
Writing from the depths of the South West, Manchester seems a fair way away... nevertheless, this week you can still catch Fergus Evans's Rove at the Lowry, tonight Fri 13 and tomorrow Sat 14 Feb; or in Lancaster, at the Duke's Playhouse, Chris Thorpe + Hannah Walker's I Wish I Was Lonely tonight, Fri 13 Feb and on Sunday, Rebecca Atkinson-Lord's Sunday Lunch Project at Bradford's Theatre in the Mill.

Next week there's a brief half-term hiatus, though you can catch Two Destination Language's Near Gone at Edgehill University on Tue 17 Feb;  Mammalian Diving Reflex's Nightwalks With Teenagers at Contact (20-22 Feb); and in Lancaster, Clod Ensemble The Red Chair is at Live at LICA on Thu 19 Feb, while Amy Sharrocks' Museum of Water is at the Storey Institute (20-22 Feb).

The following week (or 'Hell Week' as it's known in our office), parts Mancunian are unbelievably busy with DV8 at the Lowry, Blast Theory at the Royal Exchange and FutureEverything everywhere.  Word of Warning pops up at the Lowry (twice!) with the incredible Mark Thomas and a horsey double bill.  Not content with that the idiot programming WoW also saw fit to put on our second Haphazard, all ages live art day on Sat 28th at Z-arts!
So IF we survive and IF anyone's still talking to me, we'll see you there!

best

Tamsin



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Performance Programme Spring 2015

Tue 24 Feb, 7.30pm. £12/10 | The Lowry | Double Bill
HORSE | WHOAAAAA STEADY!
Leentje Van de Cruys | University of Salford

Wed 25 Feb, 8pm. £19 | The Lowry
CUCKOOED
Mark Thomas

Sat 28 Feb, 12noon-4pm. Free | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

4 — 25 Mar (Wed-Sun only), 12noon-7.30pm | SICK! Festival (venue tbc)
HUNT & DARTON CAFE
A fully functioning café blending art with the everyday.

Fri 27 + Sat 28 Mar, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2015
A micro-festival of new dance.

Word of Warning...
Having failed miserably to brave the snowy Pennines to see Jamal Harewood last night (sorry!), I'm hoping to fare better getting to Liverpool for Tmesis Theatre's That's Amore at the Unity (tonight, Fri 30 + tomorrow, Sat 31 Jan)!

Next week as we skate into February, Lucy Hutson's Britney Spears Custody Battle vs. Zeus in Swan Rape Shocker is at Live Art Bistro in Leeds; and closer to home, there's Queer Contact's co-promotion with WoW of Amy + Rosana Cade's Sister (sold-out) followed by Eggs Collective Get A Round, both Thu 5 - Sat 7 Feb.
Also 5-7 Feb, intriguingly, over at Stage@Leeds there's David Shearing & Company's The Weather Machine.

The following week (w/c 9 Feb), you could easily be out every night of the week: with Tom Marshman, Ashley Knowles  and Kate O'Donnell at Queer Contact; Fergus Evans at the Lowry; Reckless Sleepers at Axis, Crewe; and Chris Thorpe + Hannah Walker in Lancaster.  And as a final heads-up, if anyone is craving a bit of big dance, Manchester Theatres has an offer for Richard Alston Dance on Tue 10 Feb at the Lowry!

best

Tamsin




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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2015

Thu 5 — Sat 7 Feb, 7.30pm. £13/7 | Queer Contact
SISTER
Amy + Rosana Cade

Tue 24 Feb, 7.30pm. £12/10 | The Lowry | Double Bill
HORSE | WHOAAAAA STEADY!
Leentje Van de Cruys | University of Salford

Wed 25 Feb, 8pm. £19 | The Lowry
CUCKOOED
Mark Thomas

Sat 28 Feb, 12noon-4pm. Free | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

4 — 25 Mar (Wed-Sun only), 12noon-7.30pm | SICK! Festival (venue tbc)
HUNT & DARTON CAFE
A fully functioning café blending art with the everyday.

Fri 27 + Sat 28 Mar, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2015
A micro-festival of new dance.

Word of Warning...
I can't believe it's Friday again already - January seems to be racing by at a rate of knots...

The performance world seems to be waking up: next week on Tue 27 Jan, Live at LICA, Lancaster have Third Angel's The Life and Loves of a Nobody; and the same night, at Edgehill University, there's Theatre Ad Infinitum's Light.

Thu 29 Jan sees Tim Crouch + Andy Smith's What Happens to the Hope at the End of the Evening at Contact; and, over in Leeds, at Live Art Bistro: Jamal Harewood's The Privileged. 
Meanwhile in Liverpool, Tmesis Theatre's That's Amore is at the Unity (Wed 28 - Sat 31 Jan)

The following (w/c 2 Feb) week sees Lucy Hutson at Live Art Bistro in Leeds; and closer to home the launch of Queer Contact opening with the almost sold-out Amy + Rosana Cade's Sister (co-promoted by WoW), and an Eggs Collective late nighter.

And finally, if anyone is thinking of heading to Bristol for In Between Time IBT15 (12-15 Feb)... get a move on, tickets are going fast!

best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning
Performance Programme Spring 2015

Thu 5 — Sat 7 Feb, 7.30pm. £13/7 | Queer Contact
SISTER
Amy + Rosana Cade

Tue 24 Feb, 7.30pm. £12/10 | The Lowry | Double Bill
HORSE | WHOAAAAA STEADY!
Leentje Van de Cruys | University of Salford

Wed 25 Feb, 8pm. £19 | The Lowry
CUCKOOED
Mark Thomas

Sat 28 Feb, 12noon-4pm. Free | Z-arts
HAPHAZARD
A free day out for the curious of all ages.

4 — 25 Mar (Wed-Sun only), 12noon-7.30pm | SICK! Festival (venue tbc)
HUNT & DARTON CAFE
A fully functioning café blending art with the everyday.

Fri 27 + Sat 28 Mar, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2015
A micro-festival of new dance.

Word of Warning...
Thanks to all - artists, volunteers and audiences alike who joined us for Michael Pinchbeck's The man who flew into space from his apartment last Friday.  Unbelievably, that brings to a close Word of Warning's third year of programme! 

Now, before the world gets subsumed by festive frippery, there are still a few less tinsel-fuelled offerings around...
Tonight, Fri 5 Dec, sees Drunken Chorus's Drunken Nights at the Wagon & Horses, Lancaster; and over in Yorkshire on Sat 6 Dec there's the intriguing (and hard to type) IS/N'T IT at the Delius Arts + Cultural Centre, Bradford.

Closer to home Contact welcomes the Future's SHIFT Festival tonight, Fri 5 + Sat 6 Dec (schedule here), including Manchester debuts for works by Oliver Bray, Rachael Young, Jodean Sumner and the chance to participate in (or watch) Quarantine's A Small Constellation.

After that, the world pretty much gives itself over to panto - though there's a Mother's Ruin on Fri 12 Dec and a special Tales of Whatever with Bad Language on Wed 17 Dec.  On Salford Quays, Squid's Soup's Aeolian Light has a Company Chameleon performance on Thu 18 Dec.   Slung Low's 59 Minutes to Save Xmas, meanwhile, mounts a takeover of Z-arts - open to the public 20-24 Dec. 

And that's pretty much that! The Word of Warning programme will be back in February with a co-promotion with Queer Contact of Amy+Rosana Cade's Sister.
This mailer is going to take a break now til things wake up a bit in the New Year, so until then, bah humbug and the rest!

best

Tamsin


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Word of Warning...
So it's another eastward pointing weekend courtesy of Compass Festival with Live Art Bistro (tonight Fri 21).  Tomorrow, Sat 22 Nov, there's day of sited offerings scattered around the City Centre including Helen Cole's We See Fireworks, Invisible Flock, Quarantine, Selina Thompson and Brian Lobel plus, in the evening, at West Yorkshire Playhouse, a reboot of Kings of England's Where We Live and What We Live For.  Compass rounds off on Sun 23 Nov with Forced Entertainment's That Night Follows Day in their second outing of the weekend, following their 24 hour Quizoola in Sheffield (tonight Fri 21 Nov).

In Manchester, tonight and tomorrow, there's still The Worst of Scottee at Contact. 
For the young at heart there are two shows coming up - at Contact on Sat 22 Nov Bryony Kimmings's That Catherine Bennett Show and next Sunday, 30 Nov Pigeon Theatre's Today It Is Raining (at 11,1+3) at Z-arts.

Next week, Tue 25-Thu 27 Nov, Contact has Peter McMaster's Wuthering Heights and Debs Gatenby's Hi, Anxiety.  At Bury Met, Sophie Willan's Novice Detective also appears on Wed 26 Nov. 
Over in Liverpool, Dadafest has the intriguing Terry Galloway's You Are My Sunshine on Thu 27 and Syndrome 3.1 on Fri 28 both at the Bluecoat.  Up in Lancaster, Live at LICA has Candoco's Playing Another on Thu 27 Nov.

And back at home base there is a grand total of THREE tickets remaining for the 8pm performance of Word of Warning's final show of the season  Michael Pinchbeck's The man who flew into space from his apartment at Z-arts, on Fri 28 Nov!  Hope to see you there.

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014
Fri 28 Nov, 6pm+8pm. By donation | Z-arts
THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE FROM HIS APARTMENT (work-in-progress)
Michael Pinchbeck
[Booking essential, limited capacity]
 

Word of Warning...
Scarily it's mid November already and we're heading off across the hills to Compass Festival (13-23 Nov) for Oliver Bray's Of This Room and Reckless Sleepers' Negative Space at Stage@Leeds, tonight Fri 14 Nov.  Plenty more on over the next week including Manuel Vason's Double Exposures,  Helen Cole's We See Fireworks, Live Art Bistro (Fri 21), two offerings from Quarantine, an appearance by Forced Entertainment and a big day of sited work next Saturday.

This weekend is a veritable collision of work: in parts Macunian, at The Lowry you can still catch Imitating the Dog's A Farewell To Arms (14-15 Nov) and Akram Khan's Desh (Fri 14 Nov - the ending is extraordinary - check out manchestertheatres.com for ticket offer), plus on Saturdays there are live performances as part of Akram Khan's One Side To The Other exhibition.   Also in Manchester,  The Penthouse has another Noise Above Noise night tonight,  Fri 14 Nov.
Over in Liverpool ex-Bloolips Nick Philips' Ecce Homo is at the Unity (14 +15 Nov) and Chanje Kunda's Amsterdam is at the Lantern Theatre on Sat 15 Nov.
In Bradford Baba Israel + Unfinished Business's The Spinning Wheel is at Theatre in the Mill (13-15 Nov) and Theatre Delicatessen  is ongoing to 22 Nov in Sheffield.

Beyond that there are a couple of pop-up exhibitions happening at Federation House (M4 2AH) in Manchester: tonight (Fri 14 Nov) Martin Hamblen performs as part of the preview for Hankering for Classification; and on Fri 21 Nov performance by Sarah Spanton and others as part of the preview for Bed.

Next week calms down a little bit but there's still The Worst of Scottee at Contact (20-22 Nov); and in Liverpool, Homotopia continues with Debs Gatenby's Hi Anxiety on Thu 20 Nov at the Lantern Theatre;  Forced Entertainment pop up again doing a 24 hour Quizoola in Sheffield (Fri 21 Nov) and Compass Festival gears up again for another big weekend.

Word of Warnings final outing of the season is on Fri 28 Nov - a special, work in progress of Michael Pinchbeck's The man who flew into space from his apartment.  It's free, but very limited capacity, so book now as there are only a handful of tickets left.

As a final word, Arts Council England is advising that now is the time to be shouting loudly about the value of the arts before the political parties publish manifestos for the next election.  So please do check out ACE's Culture Matters page and spread the word!

best

Tamsin


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Performance Programme Autumn/Winter 2014
Fri 28 Nov, 6pm+8pm. By donation | Z-arts
THE MAN WHO FLEW INTO SPACE FROM HIS APARTMENT (work-in-progress)
Michael Pinchbeck
[Booking essential, limited capacity]