Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

The new normal appears to be waiting with bated breath on a Friday for a rule update to see whether anything planned can go ahead in parts Mancunian...  Seemingly we are still permitted out of our homes, so here's a somewhat hasty word - largely because I'm simultaneously working on two selection processes and a live event, and my head is not really on the wider world, beyond the strangely nostalgic BCV* Mancunian pastime of watching the weather; and hideously current métier of watching the Government! (*Before CoVid).

This Sunday, 27 Oct, we at Word of Warning are presenting Botanic - a series of performance encounters in Hulme Community Garden Centre with Christian Asare, Chanje Kunda, Jade Williams, Jamil Keating, Maya Chowdhry and Shkiesha. As it's outdoors, it's free, no booking, stay as long or as little as you like but please wrap up warm and remember social distancing and the 'rule of six'. There is a café, and one (composting) toilet (I know how important these things have become in these times!)

Thereafter we are back on screen for the third Domestic on Wed 7 Oct - booking opening soon and you can visit our YouTube for all our online work this year.

Beyond the end of my own nose, Leeds Playhouse is back up and running - including Krapp's Last Tape + La Voix Humaine (2-17 Oct) plus Imitating the Dog's Dr Blood's Old Travelling Show (7+8 Oct) also going to The Piece Hall, Halifax (9+10 Oct), The Lowry (Say 17 Oct) and Lancaster Arts (20+21 Oct).

Online: Dante or Die's User Not Found continues; The Lowry has Rambert's Drawn From Within (until Sat 26 Sep); and The LBT has a trio of streamed danceworks (28 Sep - 12 Oct). Journey's Festival (28 Sep - 18 Oct); and later in October there's Black Gold Arts (23-25 Oct).

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

Hoping to see you, for real, at Botanic on Sunday!

Best

Tamsin

For those of you not as old as me - Glory of the Garden is both a Kipling poem and was the name of an Arts Council report from the 80s bemoaning the inequalities between London and the regions - that we spent the end of that decade dissecting! Plus ça change?

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