warnmcr: tie me kangaroo down, sport...

Has Boris finally lost his bounce amidst trumpian bleats of witch hunts + kangaroo courts? Meanwhile the rest of us continue to sweat in the economic heat he left behind. Meanwhile in performance world...

This weekend Horizons Festival is on Fri 16+ Sat 17 Jun at HOME; while Liz Richardson's Swim is at The Edge tonight Fri 16 Jun. Further afield, Emergence is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds on Fri 16 Jun.

Next week (w/c 19 Jun) Shahireh Sharif's I am an Orange Dot. Part Human, Part Not  is at Oldham Libray on Tue 20 Jun, Gandini Juggling's The Games We Play is at The Lowry on Wed 21 Jun, Jenni Jackson's Endurance is at HOME (22-24 Jun),
Emergence is at the New Adelphi on Fri 23 Jun; while Didsbury Arts Festival runs 24 Jun - 2 Jul - look out for Darkfield's Flight on Sat 24 Jun at Didsbury Library. Elsewhere on Sat 24 Jun, there's a Scratch Studio at Liverpool Everyman and Liz Richardson's Swim is at Sheffield Playhouse.

The following week (w/c 26 Jun) is a big one with the start of Manchester International Festival (29 Jun-16 July), GM Fringe (1-31 July) and Physical Fest (29 Jun-7 Jul) in Liverpool. There's also Transparency at 53Two; and From the Daughter of a Dictator + The Power of the Fragile at The Lowry, Owen + Slater in Didsbury. Beyond Mancunia, Rendez-Vous Dance + UKRLand are in Lancaster and Superphonic in Preston + Tmesis Theatre in Liverpool. 

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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warnmcr: the temperature's rising...

As the South braces for a heatwave, Mancunian cynicism might dictate that we will see rain, but if the heat does hit, an air-conditioned theatre space might be a good plan...
 

IRL:
This weekend YESYESNONO's We Were Promised Honey and Hot Brown Honey The Remix are at HOME until Sat 10 Jun while tonight Fri 9 Jun, Company Chameleon's Refuse premiers at their Studio in Openshaw and Quarantine's Underscore is at Manchester Central Library also on Fri 9 Jun.
Meanwhile The Gods The Gods The Gods is on Fri 9 Jun at Chester Storyhouse.

Next week (w/c 12 Jun) HOME has Jo Fong + George Orange's The Rest of Our Lives  on Tue 13 + Wed 14 Jun and Horizons Festival on Fri 16+ Sat 17 Jun; while Liz Richardson's Swim is at The Edge on Thu 15 + Fri 16 Jun.
Further afield, on Tue 15 Jun Russell Maliphant's Vortex is at The LBT, Huddersfield and Godot is a Woman is at Sheffield Playhouse. YESYESNONO We Were Promised Honey is at Unity, Liverpool on Thu 15 Jun, and Emergence is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds on Fri 16 Jun.

The following week (w/c 19 Jun) Shahireh Sharif is in Oldham, Gandini Juggling at The Lowry, Jenni Jackson at HOME, Emergence at the New Adelphi; while Didsbury Arts Festival runs 24 Jun - 2 Jul. There's a Scratch Studio in Liverpool and Liz Richardson is in Sheffield
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Here at Word of Warning, next up is Haphazard - and if you have an idea for a piece of all ages Live Art - there's still time to apply.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org


warnmcr: whatsapp doc?...

As the virtual paper trail left by the platform takes centre stage, you can almost hear people scurrying to turn disappearing messages on... meanwhile
 
IRL:
This weekend, Botis Seva's Mama is at The Lowry tonight, Fri 2 Jun while Brawn is at The Dukes, Lancaster on Sat 3 Jun and The Gods The Gods The Gods is at Slung Low at Temple, Leeds on Sun 4 Jun.

Next week (w/c 5 Jun) YESYESNONO's We Were Promised Honey and Hot Brown Honey The Remix are at HOME (7-10 Jun). Company Carpi's When You Light a Candle You Cast a Shadow is at The Whitworth on Thu 8 Jun; Company Chameleon's Refuse premiers on Fri 9 Jun at their Studio in Openshaw; and 30 and Out is at 53Two on Wed 7 + Thu 8 Jun.

Meanwhile The Gods The Gods The Gods is on Fri 9 Jun at Chester Storyhouse.

The following week (w/c 12 Jun) Jo Fong + George Orange are at HOME and maybe in Hebden Bridge and Liz Richardson is at The Edge.
Further afield, Russell Maliphant is in Huddersfield, Godot is a Woman in Sheffield, YESYESNONO in Liverpool, and Emergence in Leeds.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Here at Word of Warning, next up is Haphazard - and if you have an idea for a piece of all ages Live Art - there's still time to apply.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org


warnmcr: checkmate...

As partygate rumbles on to Chequers, a certain sense of déjà vu hangs in the air. Mercifully in performance world there's still some forward momentum...
 

IRL:
This weekend, tonight Fri 26 May, HOME has The Tiger Lilies while Emergence Triple Bill is at Sale Waterside and Tuning-In is at The Lowry Fri 26 + Sat 27 May. Tomorrow, Sat 27 May Rowan McCabe's Door to Door Poetry: Nationwide is at The Edge in Chorlton.

Elsewhere, Seeds, Dreams + Constellations is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds (until 27 May); Forced Entertainment's If All Else Fails is at the Playhouse in Sheffield on Fri 26 May; and there's a Scratch Studio at Liverpool Everyman on Sat 27 May.

Next week (w/c 29 May) Action Hero + Deborah Pearson's The Talent is at HOME on Wed 31 May + Thu 1 Jun; and Botis Seva's Mama is at The Lowry on Thu 1 + Fri 2 Jun. Rowan McCabe's Door to Door Poetry: Nationwide is at the New Continental, Preston on Mon 29 May; Leo & Hyde's The VR Diary of Attica Lehane is at the Drama Studio, Sheffield on Wed 31 May; Brawn is at The Dukes, Lancaster on Sat 3 Jun and or The Gods The Gods The Gods at Slung Low at Temple, Leeds on Sun 4 Jun.

The following week (w/c 5 Jun) seems to be a really quiet one, all I can spot is YESYESNONO and Hot Brown Honey at HOME; Company Carpi at The Whitworth; Company Chameleon at their Studio or 30 and Out at 53Two and The Gods The Gods The Gods in Chester.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Here at Word of Warning, next up is Haphazard - and if you have an idea for a piece of all ages Live Art - there's still time to apply.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org




warnmcr: working ahead...

I have to confess that this week I've been pretty much locked into a certain black box, so the rest of the world has passed me by.  You can still catch the fruits of that incarceration tonight, Fri 19 May, with Works Ahead at Contact - three short pieces, pay what you decide.
 
IRL:
This weekend, at Sale Waterside there's Bi-Topia (until Sat 20 May) + Levantes Dance Theatre's High Tea with a Twist on Sat 20 May.  At Chorlton Arts Festival there's MMU Soda Electronic Ensemble at St Clement's and Rachael Field at Barlow Hall both on Sat 20 May; and The Last Word at the Spread Eagle on Sun 21 May. Further afield, Alice Christina Corrigan's Past Life is at the Unity, Liverpool tonight Fri 19 May.

Next week (w/c 22 May) HOME has Made in (India) Britain (23-25 May) and The Tiger Lilies on Fri 26 May. The Sexuality Summer School is at Contact with Nando Messias's Transmission Sissy TV on Tue 23 May and Whiskey Chow + Ro Robertson's Up Against Nature on Thu 25 May. Emergence Triple Bill is at Sale Waterside on Fri 26 May and Rowan McCabe's Door to Door Poetry: Nationwide is at The Edge on Sat 27 May.
Elsewhere, Seeds, Dreams + Constellations is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds (25-27 May); Forced Entertainment's If All Else Fails is at the Playhouse in Sheffield on Thu 25 + Sat 26 May; and there's a Scratch Studio at Liverpool Everyman on Sat 27 May.

The following week (w/c 29 May) Action Hero + Deborah Pearson are at HOME and Botis Seva at The Lowry. Leo & Hyde are in Sheffield and Brawn in Lancaster.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org
 

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact
WORKS AHEAD 2023
A sample of new performance.



warnmcr: from pomp to pop...

As Liverpool revels in all things eurotastic, for us there's still work ahead...
 
This weekend, Happy Place is at Bolton Octagon on Sat 13 May.
Drama Studio Sheffield has The Chosen Haram on Fri 12 May and Emergence Triple Bill 2023 on Sat 13 May.
ACE dance's Unknown Realms is at the Dukes, Lancaster on Fri 12 May; and Ridiculusmus's SO is at Slung Low's Warehouse, Leeds on Sat 13 May.
IRL:

Next week (w/c 15 May) Word of Warning is back at Contact with Works Ahead on Thu 18 + Fri 19 May. Three short new works in development from Christian Asare, Jade Williams and Kellie Colbert.

Sale Waterside has The Chosen Haram on Wed 17 May, Bi-Topia (17-20 May) Levantes Dance Theatre's High Tea with a Twist on Sat 20 May Chorlton Arts Festival (19-28 May) kicks off - look out on Sat 20 May for MMU Soda Electronic Ensemble at St Clement's and Rachael Field at Barlow Hall; and on Sun 21 May The Last Word at the Spread Eagle.
Further afield, The Polar Bear is Dead at the Civic Barnsley on Wed 17 May and Alice Christina Corrigan's Past Life is at the Unity, Liverpool on Fri 19 May.

The following week (w/c 22 May) Made in (India) Britain and The Tiger Lilies are at HOME and The Sexuality Summer School is at Contact with Nando Messias and Whiskey Chow + Ro Robertson. Emergence Triple Bill is at Sale Waterside and Rowan McCabe is at The Edge.
Elsewhere, Seeds, Dreams + Constellations is in Leeds; Forced Entertainment in Sheffield and there's a Scratch Studio in Liverpool.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact
WORKS AHEAD 2023
A sample of new performance.


warnmcr: coronary...

While pomp and circumstance reign on the streets of Westminster, Downing Street may be having its own form of corononary event at the results of the local elections. As the political exaggerations and mitigations rage on, in the arts world...
IRL:
This weekend, The Lowry has Howool Baek and Siga Dance on Sat 6 May, and Aakash Odedra's Little Murmur on Sun 7 May while HOME has Ad Infinitum's If You Fall until 13 May. Imitating the Dog's Macbeth is at the LBT in Huddersfield until Sat 6 May and Akeim Toussaint Buck + Crystal Zillwood's Souls + Cells is at the Riley Theatre in Leeds on Sat 6 May.

Next week (w/c 8 May) Tamasha's Stars is at Contact (9-11 May) and Happy Place is at Bolton Octagon on Sat 13 May.

Proto-type Theater's Dead Cats is at Stage@Leeds on Tue 9 May, and Sheffield Theatres on Wed 10 + Thu 11 May. 
Drama Studio Sheffield has Hazel Lam's Lighthouse on Wed 10 May, The Chosen Haram on Fri 12 May and Emergence Triple Bill 2023 on Sat 13 May.
ACE dance's Unknown Realms is at the Dukes, Lancaster on Fri 12 May; while Gary Clarke's Wasteland is at the LBT, Huddersfield on Tue 9 + Wed 10 May; and Ridiculusmus's SO is at Slung Low's Warehouse, Leeds on Sat 13 May.

The following week (w/c 15 May) we are back in action with Works Ahead at Contact.
Sale Waterside has The Chosen Haram, Bi-Topia, Emergence + Levantes Dance Theatre while Chorlton Arts Festival (19-28 may) kicks off - look out for MMU Soda Electronic Ensemble, Rachael Field and The Last Word.
Further afield, The Polar Bear is Dead in Barnsley, and Alice Christina Corrigan is in Liverpool.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Wed 4 May, 8pm. PWYD | The Lowry

UNNATURAL CYCLES— A GHOST STORY

Avital Raz


Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

WORKS AHEAD 2023

A sample of new performance.

Christian Asare | Jade Williams | Kellie Colbert





warnmcr: mayday, mayday....

 

 
There's no irony that this weekend's May Day holiday, traditionally a day for workers, is couched firmly amidst poverty and strikes ahead of next week's flagwaving celebration of inequity.
 
IRL:
This weekend, continuing until Sat 29 Apr is Complicité's Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead  at The Lowry; and in Liverpool Imitating the Dog's Macbeth at the Playhouse,  Song for Europe at the Unity and a Scratch Studio at the Everyman. Tonight, Fri 28 Apr, RAWD's Super! is at Chester Storyhouse; Russell Maliphant's Vortex at Lancaster Arts and tomorrow, Sat 29 Apr Equilibrio Dinamico's Gold: The Journey of Light is at the Riley Theatre in Leeds.

Next week (w/c 1 May) Word of Warning is back in action with Avital Raz's Unnatural Cycles - A Ghost Story on Wed 3 Apr at The Lowry, which also has Alice Christina-Corrigan's Past Life on Thu 4 May, Howool Baek and Siga Dance on Sat 6 May, and Aakash Odedra's Little Murmur on Sun 7 May. HOME has Ad Infinitum's If You Fall (3-13 May).
Further afield, Marianne Tuckmann's The Dirt is at Stage@Leeds on Tue 2 May and SLAP presents Drop Pin at Leeds Assembly House on Thu 4 May. UKRland is at Liverpool Unity (2-4 May); and Imitating the Dog's Macbeth is at the LBT in Huddersfield (3-6 May).

The following week (w/c 8 May) Tamasha are at Contact and Happy Place is at Bolton Octagon. Proto-type Theater are in Leeds and Sheffield, Emergence 2023 in Lancaster and Sheffield; while Lancaster also has ACE dance and Sheffield also has Hazel Lam and The Chosen Haram. Meanwhile Gary Clarke is in Huddersfield and Ridiculusmus in Leeds.
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Wed 4 May, 8pm. PWYD | The Lowry

UNNATURAL CYCLES— A GHOST STORY

Avital Raz


Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

WORKS AHEAD 2023

A sample of new performance.

Christian Asare | Jade Williams | Kellie Colbert







warnmcr: primarni...

I don't normally do retail tips here, but, thanks to my sources(!) I'm advised that the new hot place to shop for Italian designer suits, is Bury Market, as patronised by our pocket primarnister.

Meanwhile...
 
IRL:
This weekend, Synagogue Scratch continues til Sun 23 Apr at Manchester Jewish Museum while Impermanence's Venus is at the LBT, Huddersfield on Fri 21 Apr and Gary Clarke's Wasteland is at Barnsley Civic on Fri 21 + Sat 22 Apr and, in London, NOW 2023 is on at The Yard until 13 May.

Next week (w/c 24 Apr) The Lowry has Kontemporary Korea - Korea National on Mon 24 Apr, Complicité's Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead  (25-29 Apr); and both Bert & Nasi's The End and The Beginning on Wed 26 and Thu 27 Apr respectively.

In Liverpool, Imitating the Dog's Macbeth is at the Playhouse (25-29 Apr);  Song for Europe is at the Unity on Fri 28 and Sat 29 Apr; and there's a Scratch Studio at the Everyman on Sat 29 Apr. RAWD's Super! is at Chester Storyhouse on Thu 27 and Fri 28 Apr Chester; Russell Maliphant's Vortex is at Lancaster Arts also on Thu 27 and Fri 28 Apr and Equilibrio Dinamico's Gold: The Journey of Light is at the Riley Theatre in Leeds on Sat 29 Apr.

The following week (w/c 1 May) HOME has Ad Infinitum; we at Word of Warning are back with Avital Raz at the Lowry, which also has more Kontemporary Korea, Alice Christina-Corrigan and Aakash Odedra.
Further afield, Marianne Tuckmann and SLAP are in Leeds; UKRland is in Liverpool; Imitating the Dog in Huddersfield
 
Online:
HOME has Talking Bodies (2 May - 17 Jun) and as ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Wed 4 May, 8pm. PWYD | The Lowry

UNNATURAL CYCLES— A GHOST STORY

Avital Raz


Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

WORKS AHEAD 2023

A sample of new performance.

Christian Asare | Jade Williams | Kellie Colbert





warnmcr: spring awakening...

Spring may allegedly have sprung, but there's still only a few post Easter shoots appearing in the performance world:
 
IRL:
The next ten days, Synagogue Scratch continues til Sun 23 Apr at Manchester Jewish Museum while The Lowry has Scratch Nights X Circus on Wed 19 Apr.
Further afield, Saphena Aziz's Martha, Me and My Family is at at the Unity in Liverpool, tonight Fri 14 Apr; BlastFest is at the Duke's Lancaster on Thu 20 Apr; Impermanence's Venus is at the LBT, Huddersfield on Fri 21 Apr while Gary Clarke's Wasteland is at Barnsley Civic on Fri 21 + Sat 22 Apr.
If you happen to be in London, NOW 2023 is on at The Yard (18 Apr-13 May).

The following week (w/c 24 Apr) The Lowry picks up the pace with Kontemporary Korea, Complicité; and both Bert & Nasi's The End and The Beginning. Elsewhere, Imitating the Dog, Song for Europe and a Scratch Studio are in Liverpool; RAWD in Chester; Russell Maliphant and Equilibiro Dinamico in Leeds.
 
Online:
As ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter for short-notice performances.

Best

Tamsin

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Information for artists: www.habmcr.org
Been to one of our events recently? Please help us by taking a few minutes to fill out our online survey.
 

Word of Warning Performance Programme 2023

Wed 4 May, 8pm. PWYD | The Lowry

UNNATURAL CYCLES— A GHOST STORY

Avital Raz


Thu 18 + Fri 19 May, 7.30pm. PWYD | Contact

WORKS AHEAD 2023

A sample of new performance.

Christian Asare | Jade Williams | Kellie Colbert