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a pre-published play by Katherine Soper
12th, 13th & 14th February, 7pm
John Thaw Studio, Martin Harris Centre
Tamsin didn’t plan to spend her teenage years packing boxes on a zero-hour contract. But her brother is housebound, working to obsessive-compulsive rituals of his own. And when targets are raised, benefits are cut, and stability feels like a distant memory - if she doesn’t fight, who will?

Pavel Kushnir In Concert
a new play by Maurielle McGarvey
19th, 20th & 21st February, 7pm
SU Theatre, Manchester Student Union Building
Добрый вечер! Join us for an evening at the Regional Philharmonic to honour the life of musician/ novelist/ poet/ art historian/ dissident/ punk/ fool/ foreign agent/ pacifist Pavel Kushnir. Featuring previously untranslated writing from Mr. Kushnir’s 2014 novel, “Russian Cut-Up”.

Mooncalf
a new play by Daniel Grady and Maisy Nichols
23rd, 24th & 25th February, 7pm
SU Theatre, Manchester Student Union Building
Two married researchers, isolated on a remote outpost in the mid-Atlantic and under surveillance by a sociologist, find two political campaigners washed up on-shore. The UK is ravaged by civil war, leaving the three scientists on the last piece of neutral British territory, and forced to make an impossible decision.

New Leeds
a new play Jake Turner Chan
26th, 27th & 28th February, 7pm
Antwerp Mansions
Four Some hundred years from now, amid a sparse population, a team of people gather in Leeds,
attempting to make it the UK’s first liveable city since climate collapse.

The Duchess of Malfi
a pre-published play by John Webster
3rd, 4th & 5th March, 7pm
SU Theatre, Manchester Student Union Building
Set in 16th century Italy, The Duchess Of Malfi tells the story of the spirited Duchess of Malfi and her love for her trustworthy servant Antonio. They marry secretly, despite the opposition of her two tempestuous brothers, Ferdinand and the Cardinal. An intense depiction of corrupted familial relationships, at odds with forbidden love, and a powerful female heroine.

Cliffs
a new play by Kate O’Connor
6th, 7th & 8th March, 7pm
Contact Theatre
On a dark cliff, in his hometown of Dover in 1964, an eleven-year-old boy falls to his death. Three generations will visit and revisit this cliff over, and over again for 60 years, each walking a precarious line between love, loss and belonging. Each trying their best not to fall.

Mawrkirk
a devised concept by Evie Clancey
11th, 12th & 13th March, 7pm
Antwerp Mansions
Nestled between the lonely hills lies the town of Mawrkirk. What goes on there is not your concern – but the outside world is certainly theirs. The people here are strange. The days seem impossibly long. And from the surrounding forest you swear you can hear whispering in
a language you don’t know. A devised folk horror piece.

Flat Pink Roses
a new play by Isabel Macintosh
26th, 27th & 28th March, 7pm
Kings Arms, Salford
Women are born by and into suffering. What is birthed in the noise and blood and cries of child-birth is an intensely beautiful and crippling link between mother and daughter. It holds up a mirror between the two persons. This is a play about that moment where the mirror cracks.
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