Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester - 2022
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NORA: A DOLLS HOUSE
BvStef Smith
Directed by Bryon Shanahan
4 March - 2 April
A battle cry, a roar,
a ripple of hope
1918. 1968. 2018. Three distinct and remarkable women illuminate this cleverly distilled contemporary retelling of Henrik Ibsen's play A DOLL'S HOUSE across three pivotal decades.
Nora Helmer tries hard to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect homemaker but under the veneer she's close to cracking. Finding herself at an impassable crossroad, Nora has a radical decision to make.
ELECTRIC ROSARY
By lim Folev
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
23 April - 14 May
Behold - Mary.
A council-funded robot.
Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold 'Mary', a council-funded robot. Practical and surprisingly funny, for some a blessing, for others a curse - could she be the revelation they have all been praying for?
Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award Winner 2017
RED VELVET
BY Lolita Chakraharti
Directed by Roy Alexander Weise
27 May
1-25 June
His craft is revolutionary.
His legacy unsung.
When celebrated actor Edmund Kean takes ill, Theatre Royal Covent Garden's 1833 run of Othello is at risk of closing. Flustered, but loving the drama, the impassioned acting company hastily reallocates roles - but the producer has a radical idea. Enter ground-breaking African American actor, Ira Aldridge, who produces an infamous performance, a seminal moment in theatrical and social history.
THE GLASS MANAGERIE
By Tennesee Williams
Directed by Atri Banerjee
2 Sentember-8 October
How beautiful it is and
how easily it can be broken
Tom escapes a suffocating home life through cigarettes and long visits to the movies while his sister, Laura, withdraws into her records and collection of glass animals. But their mother, Amanda, harbours dream for them far beyong their shabby apartment. When Tom brings home a potential suitor for Laura, Amanda seizes the opportunity to change their fortunes. THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a poetic and Bruising portrayal of a family on the bring change.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
stage adaptation by Jack Thorne based on the Swedish novel
and film by John Ajvide Lindavist
Directed by Bryony Shanahan
22 October - 19 November
Will you come
out and play?
Lonely at home and bullied at school, Oskar only has a Rubik's cube and his imagination for company. Then Eli moves in next door. Despite Eli's odd odour of infected bandages and dead dog, the teenagers develop a power and unusual friendship. But when a butchered body is found dead in a nearby forest, Oskar slowly unravels the truth about Eli and their strange bond is stretched to breaking point. A compelling and unnerving coming of age story like no other.
BETTY! Asort of Musical
Co-written by Maxine Peake & Seiriol Davies
Directed by Sarah Frankcom
3 December 2022 - 14 January 2023
The Dewsbury Players unlikely but mighty hero!
As the first female speaker of the House of commons, Betty Boothroyd is a Dewsbury girl to celebrate, and the six ladies (plus Calvin) of The Dewsbury Players are going to do just that... through the medium of musical theatre! Their high-kicks may be wobbly, their acting 'enthusiastic' and the props left over from a production of MISS SAIGON; but, tonight, the Village Hall is their theatre of dreams!
Boothroyd the musical, who saw that one coming.
BvStef Smith
Directed by Bryon Shanahan
4 March - 2 April
A battle cry, a roar,
a ripple of hope
1918. 1968. 2018. Three distinct and remarkable women illuminate this cleverly distilled contemporary retelling of Henrik Ibsen's play A DOLL'S HOUSE across three pivotal decades.
Nora Helmer tries hard to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect homemaker but under the veneer she's close to cracking. Finding herself at an impassable crossroad, Nora has a radical decision to make.
ELECTRIC ROSARY
By lim Folev
Directed by Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
23 April - 14 May
Behold - Mary.
A council-funded robot.
Behind the crumbling walls of St Grace's Convent, an exhausted order of nuns needs resurrecting. As Easter approaches, Mother Elizabeth has just the thing. Behold 'Mary', a council-funded robot. Practical and surprisingly funny, for some a blessing, for others a curse - could she be the revelation they have all been praying for?
Bruntwood Prize Judges' Award Winner 2017
RED VELVET
BY Lolita Chakraharti
Directed by Roy Alexander Weise
27 May
1-25 June
His craft is revolutionary.
His legacy unsung.
When celebrated actor Edmund Kean takes ill, Theatre Royal Covent Garden's 1833 run of Othello is at risk of closing. Flustered, but loving the drama, the impassioned acting company hastily reallocates roles - but the producer has a radical idea. Enter ground-breaking African American actor, Ira Aldridge, who produces an infamous performance, a seminal moment in theatrical and social history.
THE GLASS MANAGERIE
By Tennesee Williams
Directed by Atri Banerjee
2 Sentember-8 October
How beautiful it is and
how easily it can be broken
Tom escapes a suffocating home life through cigarettes and long visits to the movies while his sister, Laura, withdraws into her records and collection of glass animals. But their mother, Amanda, harbours dream for them far beyong their shabby apartment. When Tom brings home a potential suitor for Laura, Amanda seizes the opportunity to change their fortunes. THE GLASS MENAGERIE is a poetic and Bruising portrayal of a family on the bring change.
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
stage adaptation by Jack Thorne based on the Swedish novel
and film by John Ajvide Lindavist
Directed by Bryony Shanahan
22 October - 19 November
Will you come
out and play?
Lonely at home and bullied at school, Oskar only has a Rubik's cube and his imagination for company. Then Eli moves in next door. Despite Eli's odd odour of infected bandages and dead dog, the teenagers develop a power and unusual friendship. But when a butchered body is found dead in a nearby forest, Oskar slowly unravels the truth about Eli and their strange bond is stretched to breaking point. A compelling and unnerving coming of age story like no other.
BETTY! Asort of Musical
Co-written by Maxine Peake & Seiriol Davies
Directed by Sarah Frankcom
3 December 2022 - 14 January 2023
The Dewsbury Players unlikely but mighty hero!
As the first female speaker of the House of commons, Betty Boothroyd is a Dewsbury girl to celebrate, and the six ladies (plus Calvin) of The Dewsbury Players are going to do just that... through the medium of musical theatre! Their high-kicks may be wobbly, their acting 'enthusiastic' and the props left over from a production of MISS SAIGON; but, tonight, the Village Hall is their theatre of dreams!
Boothroyd the musical, who saw that one coming.
