Calendar Girls - Oct 2008
The Lowry – 2008/2009 schedule announced
News
Salford’s The Lowry has just announced it’s new season of events, and, as ever it’s a diverse programme of material, covering opera, ballet, contemporary dance, theatre and pantomime.
North England’s national opera company Opera North will be performing Giuseppe Verdi’s ‘Don Carlos’ (in June 2009), Gershwin’s ‘Of Thee I Sing’ and Shakespeare’s ‘I Capuletti E I Montecchi’ (Montagues and Capulets – Romeo and Juliet) in November.
Frantic Assembly bring Othello up-to-date, re-positioning him in a white Northern English town, playing a bouncer, playing from 30th September.
Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls – adapted from the film of the same name, is playing from 20th October. Calendar Girls tells the true story of the Yorkshire women of the Women's Institute, who pose nude in a calendar to raise funds for Leukaemia Research.
Contemporary ballet company Ballet Boys perform their “Greatest Hits” on the 16th and 17th October, with rising star on the contemporary dance scene Hofesh Shechter perform their ‘In your rooms & Uprising’ performance – the week before, on 9th and 10th October.
The 1927 Theatre Company bring their multimedia spectacle ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ to Salford on 31st October and 1st November. The multi award-winning surreal satire combines live music, performance and storytelling with film and animation.
November sees the new production by British playwright Kevin Fegan – Fireflies - directed by Noreen Kershaw (from Channel 4’s Shameless). The play is “A love story waiting to happen”, telling the stories of Leigh and Nelson, two characters in crisis on a Salford housing estate.
Also in November, the RSC stage a performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – between 11th and 15th of November – just after Opera North’s ‘I Capuletti E I Montecchi’.
Later in the month, renowned choreographer Matthew Bourne’s lavish production of Tim Burton’s ‘Edward Scissorhands’ rolls into Salford for just over a month, starting on 11th November.
Panto season is taken care of by the classic ‘Wizard of Oz’ fairytale, between 29th November and 4th January. Keeping with the Children’s theme, madcap Fox basil Brush rolls into town with his ‘High Skool Mania’ on 30th October.
Gigs
- Wed 08th Oct 2008 to Sat 11th Oct 2008
- Thu 09th Oct 2008 and Fri 10th Oct 2008
- Sun 12th Oct 2008
- Tue 14th Oct 2008 to Sat 18th Oct 2008
- Thu 16th Oct 2008 and Fri 17th Oct 2008
- Sat 18th Oct 2008 and Sun 11th Jan 2009
- Sun 19th Oct 2008
- Mon 20th Oct 2008 to Sat 25th Oct 2008
- Mon 20th Oct 2008
- Thu 23rd Oct 2008 to Sat 25th Oct 2008
- Sun 26th Oct 2008
- Mon 27th Oct 2008 and Tue 28th Oct 2008
- Tue 28th Oct 2008 to Sat 1st Nov 2008
- Wed 29th Oct 2008
- Thu 30th Oct 2008
- Fri 31st Oct 2008 and Sat 1st Nov 2008
- Sun 02nd Nov 2008
- Tue 04th Nov 2008 to Sat 8th Nov 2008
- Tue 04th Nov 2008 to Wed 25th Feb 2009
- Wed 05th Nov 2008 and Sat 8th Nov 2008
- Thu 06th Nov 2008
- Sun 09th Nov 2008
- Tue 11th Nov 2008 to Sat 15th Nov 2008
- Sun 16th Nov 2008
- Tue 18th Nov 2008 to Sat 22nd Nov 2008
- Thu 20th Nov 2008
- Sat 29th Nov 2008 to Sun 4th Jan 2009
- Mon 01st Dec 2008
- Tue 02nd Dec 2008
- Wed 03rd Dec 2008
- Thu 04th Dec 2008 to Sat 6th Dec 2008
- Sun 07th Dec 2008
- Mon 08th Dec 2008 to Thu 11th Dec 2008
- Tue 16th Dec 2008 to Sat 10th Jan 2009
- Sun 11th Jan 2009
- Sun 18th Jan 2009
- Mon 26th Jan 2009 to Sat 31st Jan 2009
- Sun 01st Feb 2009
- Sun 15th Feb 2009
- Thu 26th Feb 2009 to Fri 5th Jun 2009
- Fri 27th Feb 2009 and Sat 28th Feb 2009
- Sat 28th Feb 2009
- Sun 01st Mar 2009 and Mon 2nd Mar 2009
- Sun 01st Mar 2009
- Fri 06th Mar 2009 and Sat 7th Mar 2009
- Wed 11th Mar 2009
- Sun 05th Apr 2009
- Wed 08th Apr 2009 to Sun 12th Apr 2009
- Wed 29th Apr 2009 to Sat 2nd May 2009
- Tue 05th May 2009 to Sat 9th May 2009
- Mon 11th May 2009 to Sat 23rd May 2009
- Wed 03rd Jun 2009 and Sat 6th Jun 2009
