Peter Kay to play Exchange???
October 17, 2008
With news that an iconic North West comedian is to play the bingo caller in Everybody Loves A Winner –at the Royal Exchange, speculation is rife. Winner is the final show of the Manchester International Festival, a Royal Exchange – Manchester International Festival co-production. The highly acclaimed Neil Bartlett directs and devised the show.A world premiere and prestigious curtain-raiser for the 2009 Manchester International Festival this extraordinary new show will be devised by director and actors in rehearsal at the Exchange and tell a colourful story set in the vivid world of North West Bingo Halls.
The director is already promising to re-design the Exchange’s famous in-the-round auditorium – removing some of the seats and replacing them with Bingo Hall tables and chairs to allow some of the audience to play along as part of the action.
So could Kay be treading the boards next July, following his hilarious turn in The Producers?
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