re: play set for ninth year at new HOME
Eight productions make up the annual Re:play festival celebrating new theatre from Manchester and Salford in January.
HOME, the organisation formed by the merger of Manchester’s Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse, presents Re:play Festival 2015, from 12 – 24 January 2015, at Number One First Street.
Now in its ninth year, the annual festival gives audiences a second chance to see productions from Manchester and Salford’s fringe scene.
The festival will be staged in a specially built pop-up theatre space at Number One First Street, which was the location for three touring productions in the season – BEST of BE FESTIVAL, ATC’s award-winning The Events, and Riotous Company’s Insomnia.
This year’s Re:play productions include:
JB Shorts
Four 15-minute short plays written, performed, and directed by some of the city’s eading writers, actors, and directors.
War Stories
A unique collaboration by two writers from opposite sides of the world, set during the First World War, presented by 24:7 Theatre Arts in association with Benedict Power.
The Dumb Waiter
A new version of the classic Harold Pinter play presented by Ransack Theatre. In a basement room, Ben and Gus sit and wait for another ‘job’, but soon realise that this one is unlike any other.
Spur of the Moment
A drama by Anya Reiss about a 12-year-old girl on the verge of womanhood growing up in a dysfunctional family, presented by ALRA (North).
Colder Than Here
A tragicomedy presented by What A Little Bird Told Me Theatre.
Tuesday at Tesco’s
Pauline, used to be Paul, and as far as her father is concerned she still is, presented by Tangled Web.
An Evening of Filth and Despair
A one-woman comedy show by Jenny May Morgan. Erotica author Pamela DeMenthe invites an audience to hear her story and present her latest ‘masterpiece’ Sticky Digits.
The Tongue Twister
A family show about a land where rhyming is banned. Recommended for anyone aged eight upwards, presented by Red Lolly.
Re:play has always featured comedy in its programme, and this year Justin Moorhouse, will host the Re:play Breakthrough Comedian of the Year, featuring five emerging fringe comedians.
The festival also includes a work-in-progress rehearsed reading of Two Spirits, last year’s Pitch Party winner, which traces the journey of three Sioux warriors whose journey to Salford to take part in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1887 has entered local legend.
Writer Chris Hoyle will follow the reading with the screening of a short documentary he made about his trip to South Dakota to research the play.
Tickets for each production are now on sale.
