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A Five Day Festival of Ground-Breaking Contemporary Theatre by New THE LOWRY ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE FLARE HUB Book tickets online at flarefestival.com either for individual shows or a festival pass. You can HOME also buy tickets through the venues directly.** MARTIN HARRIS CENTRE A festival pass gives you access to the Flare performances, workshops, discussions and parties. WALK BUS METRO A pass is a great way to see all the great international work Flare has to offer for a great price! CONTACT THEATRE FLARE17 is recommended for ages 14+ The Flare Hub is the centre point of the festival, Festival passes: £64 (£50) hosting daily feedback sessions, workshops and Available online or from Royal Exchange Theatre. Performance tickets (no booking fees unless stated): performances, with an information point, café bar Available direct from venues: and space to chat and relax too. Double Bill £12 (£8)* HOME, The Lowry or Contact, 8pm Performance £12 (£8) Royal Exchange Theatre, 2.30pm, 7.30pm The Flare Hub: No.70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH Future Flares £6 (£4)** Martin Harris Centre, 5pm Opening times (Tues - Fri) 9.30am - 7pm, (Sat) 10 am- 4pm Performance £6 (£4)** 70 Oxford St, various times HOME: 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN *Double Bill tickets give you access to both performances at a venue on the night specified, Distance from FLARE17 Hub: 5 mins. including any extra entertainment in the bar. A five day festival HOME **Tickets from flarefestival.com, Quay Tickets and for cash only on the door. Quay Tickets Royal Exchange Theatre Martin Harris Centre: The University of Manchester, Bridgeford St, Manchester M13 9PL 0843 2080 500 (transaction fee applies) of ground-breaking Distance from FLARE17 Hub: 16 mins. Distance from Contact Theatre: 6 mins. The Lowry HOME Contact contemporary Contact Theatre: Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6JA Contact Homemcr.org 0161 200 1500 contactmcr.com 0161 274 0600 theatre by new Distance from FLARE17 Hub: 18 mins or 6 mins. Martin Harris Centre Royal Exchange Theatre Martin Harris Centre international The Flare Hub @ No.70 The Lowry: Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ RoyalExchangeTheatre.co.uk martinharriscentre.manchester.ac.uk Distance from FLARE17 Hub: 26 mins = 9 mins + 17 mins. 0161 833 9833 artists. Oxford St (old Cornerhouse) The Flare Hub Royal Exchange Theatre: St Ann’s Square, Manchester M2 7DH The Lowry No.70 Oxford Street Distance from FLARE17 Hub: 19 mins or 15 mins. Thelowry.com 0843 208 6000 (Old Cornerhouse building) Flare is hugely grateful to all the venue staff, our Advisory Board, the international producers and artists who have assisted with this year’s programme, the funding bodies and institutions who supported us and to our team of Flare Volunteers who keep the whole festival running smoothly. Flare is created and delivered by Producers Catt Belcher, Lisa Buckby, Louisa Claughton, Liam Flare is a five day festival in five of Gordon, Edwina McEachran, Ryan O’Shea, Artistic Director Neil Mackenzie, General Director Laura Manchester’s studio theatres – HOME, Broome, Audience Director Clare Simpson, Production Manager Chris Whitwood, Admin Assistant Royal Exchange Theatre, The Lowry, Contact, Megan Iredale, Student Network Manager Casey Shortt and Assistant Production Manager Cory Duffill. The Flare International Festival of New Theatre is supported using public funding by Arts Council and the University of Manchester’s Martin Harris England and by Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester, HOME, Royal Centre – with The Flare Hub at No.70 Oxford St Exchange Theatre, The Lowry, Contact and Martin Harris Centre. (the old Cornerhouse building). The festival is packed full of carefully chosen performances by some extraordinary new international artists, shows that we believe are amongst the most artistically inspiring new theatre that there is. This is theatre that re-thinks all aspects of the theatre experience, shows that will move, challenge and reward everyone who witnesses them. FLARE17 also includes FUTURE FLARES, a mini programme of some fantastic examples of new student, and recent graduate, performance. Tickets for these genuinely exciting pieces are all only £6 (£4). Alongside the selected shows there is also a programme of workshops, and plenty of open feedback and discussion sessions too. We have a limited number of full festival passes, which give access to the whole range of experiences throughout the week. /farefestival FLARE17 is your chance to try something new, to encounter top quality contemporary theatre most @farefestival of which has never been seen in this country. If you enjoy theatre, if you’re open to new experiences /farefestival_MCR created by exciting new artists, this is a chance you really can’t afford to miss. #FLARE17 Sign up for news Neil Mackenzie Talk to us Artistic Director Email: [email protected] 19:00 Opening Event HOME 12:00-12:35 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare 12:00-12:35 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare A fizz and a bang, marking the start of the festival… FREE A guided journey (for 10 people at a time) from the here and now, through memory, Hub See Wednesday for details. Hub (to and into the trippy simulation of a great night out. PARTY takes you by the hand as it £6 (£4) £6 (£4) ticket- blurs the line between reality and representation. holders) 13:00-13:40 Blind Cinema: Britt Hatzius BE The Flare 13:00-13:40 Blind Cinema: Britt Hatzius BE The Flare See Wednesday for details. Hub 20:00 ONE: BOG NL HOME Blindfolded in an underground cinema, children describe the film that you can’t see. Hub £6 (£4) An award winning solo in which a rolling score £12 (£8) An intimate exploration of communication and language in this immersive and unique £6 (£4) performance. 14:30-15:05 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare drives the increasingly musical contribution of the See Wednesday for details. Hub performer, reflecting on movement and, because it’s a solo, on loneliness – a very beautiful choir piece for 14:30-15:05 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare £6 (£4) four voices, sung by one woman. See above for details. Hub £6 (£4) 14:30-16:30 THE FLARE OPEN FORUM The Flare Leopard Murders: K.U.R.S.K CH Public and artists discuss some of the big questions arising in the festival. Hub 17:00-18:00 FUTURE FLARES: Martin The story of a man – a radical politician, speech (FREE) writer, Nazi SS officer, peace activist, grandfather. A work of ART: DEAD PIG (MMU) UK Harris What does it say about truth, about the populist ‘The next day another turn came, and so it continued always the same…’ Centre 17:00-18:15 FUTURE FLARES: Martin politicians of today? Acclaimed across Germany, An image-based performance - a living breathing art work - trapped for eternity between £6 (£4) Boys will be Girls and Girls will be Boys: KASK/Mole Wetherell BE Harris Austria and Switzerland, and only banned once… process and product, exploring the vacant concept of originality. (contains nudity). A few years ago there was a lot of dancing, some singing, and a catwalk. We laughed at Centre Civilisation: Emma Gannon (Chichester) UK models falling over, we laughed at the birth of Christ – so what’s changed? By the Artistic £6 (£4) A solo performance delivering three different stories about ‘us and them’, about Director of Reckless Sleepers and students from KASK School of Arts. chemical reactions that happen in the body, about pigmentation defining your worth, Katie & Pip: Tin Can People UK about having the right type of blood… Katie & Pip celebrates the relationship between Katie, a 15 year old girl with type 1 diabetes, and ‘Pip’ her 4 year old border collie, trained by Katie to save her life on a daily basis. It is 20:00-22:00 Grand Applause: Guillem Mont de Palol & Jorge Dutor ES Contact made with dramaturgical support from Andy Smith. An unique and startling ‘performed exhibition’, where mavericks Mont de Palol and Dutor £12 (£8) FLARE17 Artists from: take us on an extraordinary visual journey through some unique landscapes and the western 20:00-22:00 Baardeman: Simon de Winne & Tibaldus BE HOME world’s most performed opera, Carmen. ‘When I’m dancing, I don’t care a thing if the ugliness comes out or not, ‘cause I’m dancing, £12 (£8) BE Belgium Beauty and the Beast: Enis Turan TR/DE it’s me’. A surprisingly touching and energetic exploration of how a body can move, and what Let’s talk about gender baby, let’s talk about you and me… Go crazy and celebrate your it might say about the person moving. CH Switzerland dreams and your differences, through the body of a real live superstar. Inspired by the freak Castle Rock: Massive Owl UK shows of the 19th century, this show twists and dissolves body norms and gender binaries. A distortion of the film Stand By Me. As flashing neon lights descend upon the tracks, a ES Spain boxing gloved boy with a death wish comes head to head with a white suited locomotive and a deer in black patent stilettos. Massive Owl are a Bristol-based company making cinematic NL Netherlands 20:00-22:00 ONE: BOG NL HOME See Tuesday for details. £12 (£8) performance. TR/DE Turkey / Germany Leopard Murders: K.U.R.S.K CH See Tuesday for details. UK United Kingdom 12:00-12:35 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare 12:00-12:35 PARTY: Beaches ES The Flare See Wednesday for details. Hub See Wednesday for details. Hub £6 (£4) £6 (£4) 13:00-13:45 Molar: Quim Bigas Bassart ES Royal 14:30-15:45 Actresses Always Lie: El Pollo Campero, Comidas Para Llevar ES Royal An acclaimed and highly energetic interactive solo performance about happiness, Exchange Two Spanish women have really tried to earn a living as actresses.
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