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Highlights coming up at the Library Theatre...
May
Tough Time, Nice Time
May
Identity Crisis
May
Rock
May/June
If I Were You
Nov-Jan
Great Expectations
   
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Tough Time, Nice Time at the Library Theatre, Manchester
TOUGH TIME, NICE TIME
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Wednesday 14th to Saturday 17th May 2008
A secret, a spa in Bangkok and two naked Germans… Martin, an ex-rent boy drug-dealing lawyer, offers to share his tales of misfortune with Stefan, a jaded hack writer on a junket. Together they engage in an intricate exchange of outrageous stories, weaving through movies, sex, celebrity and genocide. With its razor-sharp dialogue and lightning pace, Tough Time, Nice Time is challenging, vividly imaginative, and utterly absorbing. This production is suitable for adults only. Performance times: Wednesday & Thursday - 7.30pm, Friday - 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.  (back to top)

Identity Crisis at the Library Theatre, Manchester
IDENTITY CRISIS
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Saturday 17th May 2008 - 4pm
Black or white? English or Scottish? Gay or straight? Christian or Muslim? Group-based identity seems more and more important in society. But are identities a crucial form of support and solidarity for minorities - or does our obsession with identity set us on a path to division and hatred. Philosopher Julian Baggini joins founder of Black History Month Linda Bellos, The Independent's Johann Hari and Billy Bragg, singer and author of The Progressive Patriot, to debate where our loyalties should lie. Part of Queer Up North International Festival 2008. (back to top)

Rock at the Library Theatre, Manchester
ROCK
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Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th May 2008
Rock Hudson was the biggest screen idol in 1950’s Hollywood – the ultimate Tinseltown hunk. But his career was perpetually under threat from Confidential Magazine, every queer actor’s nemesis: and only one man stood between stardom and oblivion. Rock is the story of Henry Willson, the man who made stars of Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Troy Donaghue and several other oddly-name men; the most unscrupulous agent in Los Angeles; the man who would do anything to protect his money-spinning protégé… Starring the incomparable Bette Bourne and written by Tim Fountain, the team behind Resident Alien, Library Theatre’s hit play about Quentin Crisp, Rock is a brand new play that brings the seamy world of 1950s Hollywood to vivid life. Rock is commissioned by Homotopia & Glasgay! Performance times: Tuesday to Thursday - 7.30pm, Friday - 8pm, Saturday - 3pm & 8pm.  (back to top)

If I Were You at the Library Theatre, Manchester
IF I WERE YOU
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Friday 30th May to Saturday 21st June 2008
Mal and Jill Rodale, a middle-aged married couple, are coping with their share of problems. Secret problems, to avoid hurt and confrontation, which they hide from each other. Like most married couples. For Mal, it’s work problems and Sam, a son who is disappointing him, although Sam doesn’t disappoint Jill. Jill, meanwhile, worries about her daughter Chrissie’s marriage, though Mal won’t hear a word said against her. But a most unexpected sort of help is at hand; a solution that will change all their lives in ways they would never have imagined.
Alan Ayckbourn’s 70th play, an ingenious comedy which asks the audience to question its perceptions of men and women, shows that the master playwright is still very much on top of his game. Performance times: Tuesday to Thursday - 7.30pm, Friday & Saturday - 8pm. There are 3pm matinees on Thursdays and Saturdays.
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Great Expectations at the Library Theatre, Manchester
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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Saturday 29th November 2008 to Saturday 17th January 2009
Mal and Jill Rodale, a middle-aged married couple, are coping with their share of Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist in 2005 at the Library Theatre was a huge hit with both critics and audiences alike. He has now turned his hand to Great Expectations, Dickens’ much-loved tale of Pip, a callow young man whose path through life is shaped by two experiences in his early years which turn out to have far-reaching consequences for him. Pip first has a traumatic and dramatic encounter with escaped convict Magwitch, whom he befriends, and then the eccentric and capricious Miss Havisham, and her beautiful but spiteful adopted daughter, Estella. Neil Bartlett’s powerful and imaginative stage version of Dickens’ story promises to be one of the most thrilling theatrical experiences of the year. Performance times vary so please check our calendar pages for times of all the dates.  (back to top)

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