warnmcr: going spare...

So here we are in a brand new year, but it all feels strangely familiar, with sparsity in our food cupboards and the ruling classes sparing no detail of their feuds... On a brighter note, the performance world is starting to wake up and there's an imminent flurry of January activity, with not one, but three festivals in Manchester:
 
IRL:
The next 10 days: sees the kick off Turn On Festival at Hope Mill Theatre (14-21 Jan) - catching my eye are Ladyfriends on Mon 16 Jan and the Development Grant Evening on Fri 20 Jan. 
Thick & Tight's Tits & Teeth is at The Lowry on Wed 18 Jan; while Avital Raz's Unnatural Cycles is at Oldham Library on Thu 19 Jan, and Factory International's First Breath is ongoing (until 29 Jan).

PUSH Festival at HOME enters the fray on Fri 20 Jan (until 18 Feb); shows seem to be from 26 Jan including Ink & Curtains, Monkeywood Theatre, Mothers Who Make, Alexa Vox, #BlackBoyJoyGone, Amy Townsend Lowcock, Liam Rees, Isabella Leung and Josh Coates.

Further afield, in Barnsley, the Civic has Proto-type Theater's Dead Cats on Wed 18 Jan; while in Liverpool on Sat 21 Jan, the Everyman has a Scratch Studio and Raven Radha's Gaslit is at the Unity.

The following week (w/c 23 Jan) The Lowry has Andrea Salustri and Zinnia Oberski on a double ticket deal; plus there's a screening of Fountain. At PUSH, Mothers Who Make scratch event jumped out at me. The third festival also gets going: Future Flares at Manchester School of Theatre (24-27 Jan) including Will Dickie, Tania Camara and Michael Pinchbeck + Kevin Egan.

Elsewhere Avital Raz is in Preston and Proto-type Theater are in Lancaster.

Online: PUSH has Lowri Evans's Telenovela nightly from 21 Jan;  while Thick & Tight's Tits & Teeth  is also live streamed on Wed 18 Jan.
As ever, there's also Unity Online; and there's Lowry Digital, HOMESCREEN + Sadlers Wells Digital Stage and the Word of Warning YouTube.

In the meantime 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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