What's on: Drama
University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in the Drama Society's calendar, MIFTAs are always sure to excite and entertain with their originality and variety. With the season home to some of the stars of the..
University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in the Drama Society's calendar, MIFTAs are always sure to excite and entertain with their originality and variety. With the season home to some of the stars of the..
University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in the Drama Society's calendar, MIFTAs are always sure to excite and entertain with their originality and variety. With the season home to some of the stars of the..
The Adhesion of Love
A new play by Stephen M Hornby Directed by Helen Parry In 1885, John W Wallace, a working-class man from Bolton, sets up the Eagle Street ‘College’, a book group that celebrates his love for Walt Whitman’s poetry. Attracting a small group of like-minded men, Wallace embarks on a journey of spiritual and sexual self-discovery through Whi..
Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World
“...if good theatre is about changing our consciousness, then [Amy Conway] certainly achieves that...” **** The Scotsman Join Amy on a video-game adventure like no other. Battle the minions of fear, loneliness and despair using your collective powers of human connection and emotional resilience. Only together can we slay the Darkness! Bec..
The Washing Up
Written by Kate McCoy “funny, irreverent, restless and inventive” BN1 Magazine. A show with original songs looking beneath the surface bubbles to tell stories and ask questions about an everyday act that brings us all together. Every kitchen sink has its own story…. The performance will be followed by a workshop at 5pm. https://smal..
COMMONISM
Written by Smith & Sveen “It has an emotional charge under its cool surface, is propelled by a sense of investigation into friendship, performance, identity. I found it quietly thrilling.” **** The Times COMMONISM is a meeting of two people from different countries in search of some common ground. It’s a performed conversation – a di..
MACBETH - Toil and Trouble
Performance 1pm - 2pm Workshops 2.15pm - 3pm After a sell-out run in 2018 at The Martin Harris Centre, award-winning 1623 Theatre Company returns with their 60-minute adaptation of Macbeth. Back by popular demand, Macbeth: Toil and Trouble focuses upon the central relationship within the story, charting the journey of Shakespeare's i..
MACBETH- Toil and Trouble: SOLD OUT
Please note, this event is fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list for this event, please call Emma Rayner on 0161 275 8950 or E-mail schoolsevents@manchester.ac.uk. Performance 10am - 11am Workshops 11.15am – 12pm After a sell-out run in 2018 at The Martin Harris Centre, award-winning 1623 Theatre Company retu..
Retro(per)spective by Split Britches
Written and Performed by Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Including work created in collaboration with Deb Margolin, Holly Hughes, Stacy Makishi, Vivian Stoll, Stormy Brandenberger and Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw of Bloolips. Co-presented by the Drama Department and the Sexuality Summer School. Legendary lesbian feminist company Split Britches re..