Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

As last night's voting picture emerges, the morning round of face-saving begins - could no overall control be both outcome and metaphor?

This weekend, at Lowry is Nine Sixteenths on Fri 8 May (and at Slung Low, Leeds on Sat 9 May) and Period Drama on Sat 9 May. Also on Sat 9 May Manchester Collective x Thick & Tight's Papillons is at RNCM; while Chorlton Arts Festival (9-21 May) kicks off including The Potato War at The Royal Oak. 

Elesewhere it's still all dance with Phoenix Dance's Interplay at Liverpool Playhouse on Fri 8 May; Emergence's Triple Bill at The Dukes, Lancaster on Sat 9 May; LEAP has a Takeover: Scratch at Shakespeare North on Sat 9 May and Hofesh Schechter's In The Brain is at the Riley Theatre, Leeds on Sun 10 May.

Next week (w/c 11 May) focus seems to be on Greater Manchester: Aviva Studios has ENO's Angel's Bone 12-16 May; Oldham Coliseum has P Burton Morgan's Running Commentary at George St Chapel on Wed 13 May; Sale Waterside has Johnny Woo's Suburbia on Thu 14 May and Sanjay Lago's Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte on Fri 15 May; while 53Two has Funeral Teeth on Sat 16 May

The following week (w/c 17 May) Contact has Split Ends on Tue 19 and Wed 20 May.

Further afield, Harry Clayton-Wright's Mr Blackpool has its homecoming gala at Blackpool Grand on Wed 20 May.  In Leeds, Toussaint to Move's Windows of Displacement is at Yorkshire Dance on Fri 22 May and Bobak Champion's I'm Muslamic Don't Panik! is at Slung Low's Warehouse on Sat 23 May. 

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

Notes for Artists - the call for Haphazard - all ages Live Art - is open (deadline 5pm today, 8 May) and the rolling call for Social Experiment (next edition 11 June, deadline Mon 25 May) remains open. 

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Tamsin

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