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Symbols Key 4VISUAL ARTS Members’ exclusive opening night offer 0+ Recommended age guide APRIL Groups’ rate (10+) available WELCOME 6 G 0343 208 1850 S Schools’ rate available TO Running times shown WEEK 53 where available THE 13 Cover Image: ‘Extraordinary Bodies - LOWRY. What Am I Worth?’ (Fri 24 & Sat 25 April) WEEK 53 RETURNS! MAY The Lowry’s multi-art form festival is back across 10 17 Accessible jam-packed days from FRI 24 APRIL - SUN 3 MAY. Performances The biennial festival is our opportunity to fill the building with brilliant contemporary art and performance as we commission and present artists that we think are really JUNE Audio Described pushing the boundaries and creating exciting work. 24 Performance For people with a visual impairment. With a programme including exhibitions, installations, performances, interactive projects and live events, be sure British Sign Language to visit us and see The Lowry from a new perspective! Interpreted Performance JULY We look forward to seeing you soon. 32 Captioned Performance For people with a VISIT THELOWRY.COM/WEEK53 hearing impairment. FOR THE FULL FESTIVAL LINE UP. FRI 24 APR - SUN 3 MAY 2020 The Lowry Centre Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and registered charity COMING UP Relaxed Performance (no. 1053962) Adapted for anyone who may 35 find the usual theatre Please recycle this brochure environment challenging. You’ll be free to leave and re-enter at any point. HEW COMEDY For more info visit p42 LOCKE 40 The Man Who Would Be King A FESTIVAL 42 EVENTS 3 /TheLowrySalford 4 Celebrating feelings in all their messy, multifaceted glory, Everything I Know, I Felt is an exhibition exploring the emotional Sat 14 March - Sun 5 April experiences of womxn, curated by Girl Gang Manchester - a local collective of artists, activists, academics and party Gallery Opening Times starters who believe that feminism is for KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE MEMBERS’ everybody. 11am - 5pm 10am - 5pm SYMBOL FOR EXCLUSIVE OFFERS Sat Visit thelowry.com/exhibitions for more Sun - Fri information about events, from parties and Free | Donations Welcome panels, to debates and destruction, and a takeover by young womxn. 55 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 6 LS LOWRY THE ART & THE ARTIST The Lowry is home to the world’s largest public collection of paintings and drawings by LS Lowry. HHHH A large selection is on EVENING STANDARD display in our permanent exhibition alongside other works on loan from private HHHH collections across the UK. ‘PRETTY MUCH IRRESISTIBLE.’ THE TELEGRAPH A PERMANENT DISPLAY HHHH THE GUARDIAN Gallery Opening Times DANCE 11am - 5pm 10am - 5pm Sun - Fri Sat Message In A Bottle is the spectacular new Wed 1 - Sat 4 April Free | Donations Welcome dance-theatre show from triple Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince (Some Like Lyric Theatre Free Talks on LS Lowry It Hip-Hop) to the iconic hits of 17-time Visit thelowry.com for times Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, including Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, 7.30pm 2pm Self Portrait, 1925 Going to Work, 1959 © The Lowry Collection, Salford © The Lowry Collection, Salford Fields of Gold, Englishman In New York Thu 2 & Sat 4 and Shape of My Heart. Tickets from £23.50 With dazzling footwork and breathtaking Conc £3 off athleticism set to the music of Sting, Message In A Bottle tells a vital and uplifting story of humanity and hope. G S Approx 1 hour 50 mins (including interval) Thu 2 Apr, 2pm Co-produced with Birmingham Hippodrome and The Lowry. Research and development supported by The Movement. 7 thelowry.com 0343 208 6000 8 DIRECT FROM THE WEST END ‘a truly contemporary ★★★★★ cultural phenomenon’THE SUNDAY EXPRESS A Wardrobe Ensemble, Complicité and Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production in association with Bristol Old Vic The Last Of The Pelican Lucinda Chua Fri 3 April Adapted by Matthew Spangler Originally produced by Daughters Based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini Cellist and vocalist Lucinda Directed by Giles Croft Tue 31 March - Chua flexes seamlessly between atmospheric chamber pop and DRAMA Thu 2 April introspective R&B. Having performed live with artists including FKA twigs Like Ayckbourn on acid, this ‘There is a way to be good again’ and GAIKA, on her solo debut, darkly comic family drama Tue 7 - Sat 11 April Antidotes 1, Chua steps out into her From London’s West End, The Kite Runner is follows four sisters (and their own otherworldly landscapes. an outstanding and unforgettable theatrical granny on day release) as they tour de force and its returning to The Lowry. Lyric Theatre come together to divide their mother’s house between them. ‘As if in conversation with Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international Joy wants a baby, Storm wants bestselling novel, this haunting tale of 7.30pm 2pm to be seen, Sage wants to be the instrument, she fills the friendship spans cultures and continents and paid and Maya doesn’t want space in between notes Wed 8 & Sat 11 follows one man’s journey to confront his past anyone to find out her secret… with her voice.’ Pitchfork and find redemption. Tickets from £24.50 Approx 2 hours 30 mins (including interval) Conc £3 off* DRAMA *Selected performances MUSIC HHHHH G S Quays Theatre Quays Theatre ‘The best page-to-stage show since War Horse’ The Stage 8pm 8pm S G S Tickets £18.50 Conc £2 off Tickets £10 Conc £5 off Sat 11 Apr Thu 9 Apr Fri 10 Apr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm KR Salford Brochure A5.indd 1 23/01/2020 17:01 AMENDED ItNGL2020 Salford Print 74x210mm.pdf 2 25/02/2020 15:08 9 thelowry.com /TheLowrySalford 10 LIVE ON STAGE ©Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffl er 2001 Tue 7 - Sun 12 April Sat 18 & Sun 19 April Jump on board the broom with the Join Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka witch and her cat in Tall Stories’ Pakka and friends at In the Night fun-filled adaptation of Room on Garden Live for a brand-new show! DRAMA the Broom, the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel You’ll see all your favourite characters Scheffler. beautifully brought to life with Tue 14 - Sat 18 April full-size costumes, magical puppets, In a dilapidated seaside boarding house the Will there ever be room on the and enchanting music that will keep mysterious Stanley Webber receives a visit broom for everyone? Find out in the your little ones captivated. from two sinister strangers, Goldberg and Quays Theatre magical Olivier Award nominated McCann. They arrive on Stanley’s birthday – show for everyone aged three and ‘There’s nothing quite like or is it? What do they want and why do 8pm 2.30pm above. In the Night Garden Live’ they want to turn Stanley’s quiet world The Independent upside down? Wed 15, Sat 18 Approx 1 hour (no interval) Approx 1 hour (no interval) The Everyman Theatre Company brings Tickets from £20.50 together a star cast including Michelle FAMILY Collins (EastEnders, Coronation Street) Conc £2 off* FAMILY and Tristan Gemmill (Coronation Street, *Selected performances Casualty) to present Harold Pinter’s most G S Quays Theatre Lyric Theatre popular and widely performed darkly-comic masterpiece. 4pm 2pm 11am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm Tue 7 Wed 8 - Sun 12 Wed 8 - Sun 12 Sat 18 Sat 18 Sat 18 from £18.50 Tickets £17.50 3+ S G Tickets 3+ S Conc £2 off 11 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 12 A ROLLICKING TALE OF DERRINGDO! A MUSICAL COMEDY based on the novels of adapted and directed by DeNada Dance Theatre Emma Rice Mariposa “IT MAKES YOU WANT TO CHEER” Mon 20 April The Times A Cuban rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s Thu 7 & Fri 8 May MUSICAL transgender reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera, Madame Butterfly. Following the incredible success of the 2019 UK Tour, dance fans With original music by Luis Miguel will be delighted to hear that Tue 21 - Sat 25 April Cobo, and set in a dockland world of some of their favourite Pros will Prior to London’s West End. voodoo queens and faded showgirls, be returning in a sparkling new Lyric Theatre Mariposa is a passionate drama about tour for 2020. Nostalgic, naughty and perfect for now, the extreme sacrifices we are ready to Malory Towers is a musical of high jinks, high make for love... Don’t miss these amazing drama and high spirits. 7.30pm 2pm dancers as they bring the Approx 1 hour 30 mins (including interval) world’s finest moves to you, for Adapted and directed by Emma Rice (Wise Wed 22, Sat 25 April a Strictly fab-u-lous occasion. Children and Brief Encounter), this is a show for anyone who still dreams about midnight Tickets from £24.50 DANCE feasts, pillow fights and headmistresses like Conc £3 off* DANCE Miss Grayling. *Selected performances G S Quays Theatre Lyric Theatre ‘Jolly good stuff…I loved it’ Daily Mail 8pm 7pm 2.30pm G S Thu 7 David Pugh presents a Wise Children production. Tickets £15 Conc £2 off Tickets from £36 SP_Salford_Brochure_210x74.indd 1 15/01/2020 13:25 14 CRXSS PLXTFXRM PIETRO MARULLO CHARMAINE CHILDS NYE THOMPSON STEWART LEE HEW LOCKE MARTIN MESSIER YA P YA P YA P THE TWENTY EXTRAORDINARY BODIES HEW MICHAEL BARNES-WYNTERS ONTROEREND GOED LOCKE STANDING SIDES The Man Who Would Be King Commissioned by THE FACTION SCARABEUS A FREE EXHIBITION. FROM SAT 25 APRIL - SUN 6 SEPTEMBER The Lowry for WEEK 53 Sculptor Hew Locke has always been fascinated by how Power is visually projected – by those who have it, and those AERIAL THEATRE who seek it.