Library Re: Play festival

The Library Theatre’s third annual Re:Play Festival, comprising some of the best new theatre seen in some of Manchester and Salford’s non-traditional theatre venues in 2009, opens on Tuesday 26 January 2010.

The opening play is No Wonder by Claire Unwin.  Altogether, six different plays, plus four short plays selected from the two ‘JB Shorts’ events at Joshua Brooks in Manchester in 2009, will be performed three times in Re:Play 2010. FirstStage, a new ideas workshop, and the Re:Play Debate, a discussion on the city’s independent theatre scene, completes the programme of events in the Re:Play Festival for 2010.

“Our first two festivals in 2008 and 2009 were both huge successes,” says the Library Theatre’s Artistic Director, Chris Honer, who headed the panel which selected the plays. “Re:Play is a marvellous opportunity to see some exciting productions which theatre-goers might well have missed first time round.”

A brochure with full details of the festival and performance schedule is available at selected venues throughout Greater Manchester, and it can also be downloaded from the theatre’s website. Tickets start from £8.50 (£8 concessions), with generous discounts available for people seeing two or more shows.