The sun has set on our Spring, only to herald the shiny new golden dawn of Spring/Summer 2016... thanks whoever it was who unkindly said it was a reference to my own impending jubilee..!
Over the next couple of weeks things are pretty quiet for Easter - with the main point of focus being Quarantine's Quartet: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring at the Old Granada Studios. Bookable through both Contact and HOME, you can see Summer (22 Mar), Winter (24 Mar) and Spring (25 Mar) or a marathon run of the full Quartet (26 Mar, 2+3 April). Elsewhere, Rob Auton's The Water Show (23 Mar) and Ed Aczel's The Random Flapping of a Butterfly’s Wings (31 Mar both at The Lowry); and Short&Sweet's Fool (1 Apr) at Victoria Baths, may be of interest.
Looking ahead, Word of Warning's Spring/Summer 2016 - kicks off on Thu 7 April at the Whitworth with Verity Standen's HUG. It 'sold-out' within minutes of bookings opening, but check the bookings page on Monday evening (21 Mar) as we hope to increase capacity a bit - or you can take a quick trip to see it at Derelict (Preston - see below).
Spring/Summer is a season of twists and turns, eggs, coffee and spicy moments… We have dance in the shape of Turn - and Igor and Moreno; film, with the premiere of Richard DeDomenici's Queer As Yolk: Redux starring Eggs Collective; an explosively unpredictable quartet for Works Ahead: Terri Donovan, Afreena Islam, Top Joe and Lucy McCormick; and the return of random sprees of urban eccentricity with Hazard.
In other previews, in Preston, Derelict springs up with another wave of work (7-16 April). Our partners in Verity Standen's HUG, you can catch it there on Fri 8 + Sat 9 April. They also welcome the extraordinary Canadian gastronomy of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 April; plus The Larks' Join Me (Sat 16 April): and Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April).
After that look-ahead, this Warning mail is going to take a week off for Easter and will resume 'normal service' on April fool's day. I'm off to hop a branson-express to the big smoke to lend a hand with Afreena Islam's Daughters of the Curry Revolution at Camden People's Theatre's Sprint, tonight Fri 18 + tomorrow Sat 19 Mar - so if you're in the vicinity do join us!
In the meantime, look out for our shiny gold print hitting a leaflet rack near you... or if you fancy giving us some feedback on Spring 2016, please do fill out our online survey.
Over the next couple of weeks things are pretty quiet for Easter - with the main point of focus being Quarantine's Quartet: Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring at the Old Granada Studios. Bookable through both Contact and HOME, you can see Summer (22 Mar), Winter (24 Mar) and Spring (25 Mar) or a marathon run of the full Quartet (26 Mar, 2+3 April). Elsewhere, Rob Auton's The Water Show (23 Mar) and Ed Aczel's The Random Flapping of a Butterfly’s Wings (31 Mar both at The Lowry); and Short&Sweet's Fool (1 Apr) at Victoria Baths, may be of interest.
Looking ahead, Word of Warning's Spring/Summer 2016 - kicks off on Thu 7 April at the Whitworth with Verity Standen's HUG. It 'sold-out' within minutes of bookings opening, but check the bookings page on Monday evening (21 Mar) as we hope to increase capacity a bit - or you can take a quick trip to see it at Derelict (Preston - see below).
Spring/Summer is a season of twists and turns, eggs, coffee and spicy moments… We have dance in the shape of Turn - and Igor and Moreno; film, with the premiere of Richard DeDomenici's Queer As Yolk: Redux starring Eggs Collective; an explosively unpredictable quartet for Works Ahead: Terri Donovan, Afreena Islam, Top Joe and Lucy McCormick; and the return of random sprees of urban eccentricity with Hazard.
In other previews, in Preston, Derelict springs up with another wave of work (7-16 April). Our partners in Verity Standen's HUG, you can catch it there on Fri 8 + Sat 9 April. They also welcome the extraordinary Canadian gastronomy of Zuppa Theatre's Pop Up Love Party on Fri 15 + Sat 16 April; plus The Larks' Join Me (Sat 16 April): and Glen Neath + David Rosenberg's Séance (11-16 April).
After that look-ahead, this Warning mail is going to take a week off for Easter and will resume 'normal service' on April fool's day. I'm off to hop a branson-express to the big smoke to lend a hand with Afreena Islam's Daughters of the Curry Revolution at Camden People's Theatre's Sprint, tonight Fri 18 + tomorrow Sat 19 Mar - so if you're in the vicinity do join us!
In the meantime, look out for our shiny gold print hitting a leaflet rack near you... or if you fancy giving us some feedback on Spring 2016, please do fill out our online survey.
Best
Tamsin
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Performance Programme Spring/Summer 2016
Thu 7 Apr, 6-9pm. By donation | Thursday Lates at the Whitworth
Fri 8 Apr, 6-8pm; Sat 9 Apr, 1-5pm. Free | Harris Museum, Preston
HUG
Verity Standen
‘Song erupts around you... startling, moving and genuinely immersive.’ The Guardian
[Limited capacity, see website]
Fri 22 + Sat 23 Apr, 7.30pm. £9/5, two nights £11/6 | Contact
TURN 2016
Twenty new works in a two day spin around new northern dance – energy bursting from every nook and cranny...
Sun 22 May, 8pm. By donation | HOME
QUEER AS YOLK: REDUX
Richard DeDomenici + Eggs Collective
Première of this (ir)reverent remake of a Mancunian classic. Starring Eggs Collective, introduced by auteur DeDomenici.
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, times + prices tbc | Contact
WORKS AHEAD COMPACT EDITION
Hidden stories from Terri Donovan + Afreena Islam.
Fri 3 + Sat 4 Jun, 7.30pm. £6/3 | Contact
WORKS AHEAD
Unpredictable double bill from Top Joe + Lucy McCormick.
Wed 29 Jun, 8pm. £12/10 | The Lowry
A ROOM FOR ALL OUR TOMORROWS
Igor and Moreno
For those moments – between coffee and dancing – when harmony abandons us and all that’s left is the desire to scream.
Sat 9 Jul, 12noon-5pm. Free | St Ann’s Square, Mcr City Centre
HAZARD 2016
Incidental intervention and sited performance... Cheeky, thought-provoking sprees of eccentricity...
Word of Warning Spring/Summer 2016 is brought to you by hÅb
with Derelict, UCLan, the Whitworth, Contact, Dance Manchester, HOME, The Lowry + The Place.