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Greg
and Ginny are living together and
planning to get married. But Greg
is becoming increasingly suspicious
that he is not the only man in Ginny’s
life. Little things, such as telephone
calls that are cut off when he answers,
a drawer full of boxes of chocolates,
and a pair of slippers that are certainly
neither his nor hers, are planting
uncertainties in his mind. So when
she plans to ‘visit her parents’,
he decides to secretly follow her.
The confusions are about to begin…
This hilarious comedy, written in
1965, established Alan Ayckbourn as
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The
UK’s largest youth drama festival
works in partnership with the National
Theatre and the National Youth Theatre
to support 10,000 young people on
their journey to become professional
Shakespearean players. Four local
schools will stage four different
half-hour plays each night - contact
the box office on 0161 236 7110 or
visit www.librarytheatre.com
for details of participating schools
and their performance night. There
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Jimmy
Johnson is the leader of the Bengal
Tigers, the most feared of all the
scuttling gangs. Leading a life of
gratuitous violence and casual sex,
Jimmy is a lucky lad. But when a sultry
Irish beauty arrives at his favourite
brothel, trouble breaks out between
the sheets and in the streets. Angels
With Manky Faces is inspired by The
Gangs of Manchester, the best-selling
book by Andrew Davies, which tells
the story of the scuttlers, Britain's
first youth cult. Set in the streets
and gin shops of Ancoats in 1894,
Angels With Manky Faces sees Manchester's
renowned MaD Theatre Company at their
tragi-comic best. With a filmic backdrop
capturing the bustle of Manchester's
Victorian slums, the play is packed
with Mancunian humour and swagger.
Featuring cameo performances from
some of the leading musicians of the
Madchester era and a soundtrack you’d
only hear in the most clued-up clubs
in town, Angels With Manky Faces is
the Mancunian event of the year. «
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LipService
return to their spiritual home with
a hilarious new musical featuring
the greatest hits of the incomparable
Doris Day. By day, Dean (Darren Southworth,
fresh from the West End production
of Spamalot) works for a mail order
nightwear firm called The Pyjama Game.
By night, in the privacy of his own
home, this living room legend sings
like Doris Day. When Dean’s
local operatic society, Out of My
Range, stages Calamity Jane, will
he share his ‘Calamity Jane’
with an unsuspecting world? Joining
LipService’s Maggie Fox and
Sue Ryding for this Doris Day sing-fest
will be a community choir specially
recruited for the Library Theatre,
who will regale the audience with
Doris Day classics such as ‘Secret
Love’, ‘Que Sera, Sera’,
and ‘The Deadwood Stage’.
*Desperate to be Doris has not been
authorised or approved in any manner
by anyone called Desperate’,
or ‘Doris’, or indeed
Doris Day. Please note that the evening
performances on Friday's and Saturday's
start at 8pm. There is a 3pm matinee
on Saturdays and on Thursday 1st October.
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Extraordinary
stories, ordinary lives. This powerful
and moving drama shares the stories
of women whose everyday lives have
been touched by the recent conflicts
in Iraq and Afghanistan. These women,
who live in our street, and drink
in our local, share their stories
with warmth, humour and candour, as
they reveal the real lottery of war.
Please note that the evening performances
on Friday's and Saturday's start at
8pm. There is a 3pm matinee on the
Thursday and Saturday. «
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Theatre and the National Youth Theatre
to support 10,000 young people on
their journey to become professional
Shakespearean players. Four local
schools will stage four different
half-hour plays each night - contact
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Dreams
of Violence is a new comedy directed
by Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director
of Out of Joint, whose recent visits
to the Library include The Convict’s
Opera and The Overwhelming. Stella
Feehily’s work for Out of Joint
includes O Go My Man and the Edinburgh
Festival smash-hit Duck. “Mum,
I had a dream last night where I threw
you down the stairs. It’s not
right”. For Hildy (Catherine
Russell), political activism comes
easier than dealing with her family
life: her druggie son; her philandering
husband; and her father, misbehaving
in an expensive retirement home. Her
mother (Paula Wilcox), a charismatic
1960s pop star, clinging precariously
to her former beauty and a bottle
of vodka, sets up camp in Hildy’s
spare room to belittle her. By day,
Hildy leads the City’s cleaners
in revolt against the bankers. By
night, she dreams unsettling acts
of violence… Please
note that the evening performances
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Thursday and Saturday. «
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Three
gods are on a mission to see if there
are any good people left on earth.
Only Shen Te, a warm-hearted prostitute,
offers them shelter. She opens a tobacco
shop with what the gods give her as
thanks. Suddenly, everyone starts
to take advantage of her good nature.
How will she survive? How to be good
in a cruel world wracked by poverty
is the urgent problem in this parable
for our time. There is a 2pm matinee
on Thursday's and Saturday's.
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Suitable
for young people aged six upwards,
their teachers, friends, and families.
The Brothers Grimm’s dark and
spooky stories have always captivated
children, with their enticing mix
of mystery, enchantment, and humour.
Rachel O’Riordan directs this
atmospheric adaptation by Carol Ann
Duffy, the recently appointed Poet
Laureate, which promises to provide
a feast of first-rate physical, musical
and mythical theatre. Classic stories
such as Hansel and Gretel you may
know; but there are several you may
not! See
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and January
calendar for performance
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