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☆☆☆☆☆ 'THIS IS NEW WRITING THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST' (THEATRE WEEKLY)
☆☆☆☆☆ 'JOYOUSLY UPLIFTING' (BROADWAY BABY)
Tommy, a young working-class Mancunian, has been accepted into Oxford. He's the first in his family to go to uni – the first on his street in fact…
Join him on his last big night out in Manchester, as he gears up to leave the city he loves. The lights are bright, and the floors are sticky, but will the music stay loud enough to drown out the wedge dividing Tommy between old and new, here and there?
Expect humour, heart and a night out to remember.
Winner of the Pleasance Pick of VAULT Festival Award, Show of the Week winner and Off Fest nominee.
☆☆☆☆☆ 'TRULY MASTERFUL' (LOST IN THEATRELAND)
☆☆☆☆☆ ‘THE BEST STORYTELLING I’VE EVER SEEN’ (BINGE FRINGE)
There will be two BSL-interpreted performances of the show: on 28 August at 2pm and on 9 September at 7.45pm.
Tuesday 26th August – ‘Ebbing’ by Jai Green play reading
Join us after the performance of A Manchester Anthem for a rehearsed reading of Jai Green’s new play Ebbing
“Ebbing’ explores the emotional landscape of loss, as well as how people navigate leaving home and dealing with the past. Fragments of the characters’ memories are found in the physical objects of their childhood home - from toy soldiers to shells to cassettes. The play captures a moment of transition, a brief glimpse for an audience unaware of the characters’ lives beyond this”.
Jai is currently 19 and has recently finished a foundation art course. They will be beginning university in September and are yet to have any writings published or staged.
Tuesday 2nd September- ‘Frontier’ by Jenny Bushell play reading
Join us after the performance of A Manchester Anthem for a rehearsed reading of Jenny Bushell’s new play Frontier
Juggling the contents of life in transition, Josie and the boxes in the back of the car are en-route to their new home. With her mother Maggie at the wheel, the pair journey on - navigating the waves of change and the friction created at the borders of identities old and new. Amongst chatter of childhood songs and fat chins, they must figure out what compromises have to be made to move forward, and what has to be left behind.
Jenny is a 26-year-old bisexual writer / actor who studied Acting at ALRA North and graduated in 2022. She has recently finished her first full-length play and is actively finding new ways to share stories with others.
Tuesday 9th September – ‘A Make Believe Summer’ by Kate Roche play reading
Join us after the performance of A Manchester Anthem for a rehearsed reading of Kate Roche’s new play A Make Believe Summer
Simon and Paloma are childhood friends who have nothing in common. But they grew up together, their difference shouldn’t matter, right? Desperate to find common ground, Simon and Paloma retreat back into a childhood game of ‘pretend’ leading to uncomfortable truths and making them question whether their friendship has survived into adulthood. A Make Believe Summer is a play about childhood, the distinction between family and friendship, and platonic break-ups.
Kate is an emerging playwright and has had two short plays staged by the Tower Theatre Company, an amateur theatre in Hackney. She was a member of the London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2024/5 and won Second Place in the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize 2023.