For more information, PRESS RELEASE — Embargoed until 12:30pm, 7 March 2019 images, quotes and interview requests INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES please contact: 2019 THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS Philippa Redfern Senior Publicist Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special +44 (0) 7724 285 179 events, today unveils its 2019 programme, which will take place across 18 days (4-21 July [email protected] 2019). An array of internationally-acclaimed artists from all over the world will present UK om and world premieres at the cross-art form biennial festival, the second with John McGrath as Artistic Director. Maisie Lawrence Senior Publicist +44 (0) 7786 075979 THEATRE COMMISSIONS FOR THE 2019 FESTIVAL INCLUDE: [email protected] m IN A MAJOR NEW COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP TWO WORLD CLASS ARTISTS, IDRIS ELBA AND KWAME KWEI-ARMAH, COME TOGETHER TO The Corner Shop PRESENT THE WORLD PREMIERE OF TREE 36 Great Queen Street London WORLD PREMIERE OF INVISIBLE CITIES FROM DIRECTOR LEO WARNER, CO- WC2B 5AA DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI AND

T: 020 7831 7657 PERFORMED BY RAMBERT F: 020 7831 3596 THE FOUNTAINHEAD BASED ON AYN RANDS’ NOVEL AND DIRECTED BY IVO VAN HOVE RECEIVES ITS UK PREMIERE

JULIET STEVENSON TO FEATURE IN RE:CREATING EUROPE, AN EVENING OF Page 1 of 11 TEXTS AND SPEECHES THAT HAVE SHAPED THE CONTINENT

MAGGIE THE CAT, A NEW WORK BY CHOREOGRAPHER TRAJAL HARRELL

TO HAVE ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT MIF19

MAXINE PEAKE AND SARAH FRANKCOM PRESENT THE NICO PROJECT

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, A NEW DANCE WORK FROM CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM LOOKING AT IDENTITY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ELVIS TRIBUTE ARTIST

A UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PHILIP GLASS AND IMPROBABLE’S PHELIM MCDERMOTT, TAO OF GLASS RECEIVES WORLD PREMIERE

THOMAS MORE’S UTOPIA, THE MANCHESTER CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF THE th 1830s AND THE 200 ANNIVERSARY OF THE PETERLOO MASSACRE ARE THE INSPIRATIONS FOR THREE NEW SITE-SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS FOR MIF19

Images can be downloaded from: press.mif.co.uk/mif19

John McGrath, MIF Artistic Director and Chief Executive says: “At MIF19 we see a whole host of artists looking to the future - some with hope, some with imagination and some with

concern. We never impose themes on the artists we work with, but it’s striking how this year’s programme reflects our complicated times in often surprisingly joyous and unexpected ways. Featuring artists from more than 20 countries, the Festival also has strong local roots, with several commissions featuring the people of Manchester as participants. MIF19 will be a feast of energy, which I hope will inspire debate and delight for the festival’s 18 days and far beyond.”

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For more information, For the full festival programme, please visit mif.co.uk images, quotes and interview requests TREE please contact: MIF, Young Vic and Green Door Productions today announce that Alfred Enoch (Harry Philippa Redfern Potter film series, How to Get Away with Murder) will star in the production and the first Senior Publicist images of rehearsals have been released. Created by Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah, +44 (0) 7724 285 179 this musical collaboration is an electrifying new blend of drama, music and dance as it [email protected] follows one man’s journey into the heart and soul of contemporary South Africa – with the om audience at the centre of the action. Directed by Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of London’s Maisie Lawrence Young Vic, with music inspired by Elba’s album Mi Mandela, Tree is an exhilarating show Senior Publicist about identity, family and belonging, seen through the eyes of one man on the toughest +44 (0) 7786 075979 journey of his life. Elba will produce along with his Green Door Productions. Tree will [email protected] premiere this summer at Manchester International Festival, before transferring to London’s m Young Vic.

The Corner Shop It’s just 12 hours from London to his parents’ homeland, but to Kaleo (Alfred Enoch), South 36 Great Queen Street Africa is another world. A family tragedy finally forces him to visit for the first time – and as London WC2B 5AA he takes his journey of healing, Kaleo must confront hidden histories and right the wrongs of the past. But first he must face the present: a shattered family, fighting to hold on to what T: 020 7831 7657 they believe is theirs, in a nation haunted by the ghosts of its own turbulent past. F: 020 7831 3596 Creative Team Created by Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah Kwame Kwei-Armah Director Jon Bausor Set & Costume Designer Page 2 of 11 Gregory Maqoma Choreography

Jon Clark Lighting Designer Paul Arditti Sound Designer Duncan McLean Video Designer Michael Asante Music Supervisor/Composer Mongi Mthombeni Dramaturg Pippa Ailion CDG Casting Director

A Manchester International Festival, Young Vic and Green Door Pictures co-production. In association with Eleanor Lloyd Productions, Bob Benton for Anthology Theatre and Eilene

Davidson.

INVISIBLE CITIES

Lolita Chakrabarti adapts the renowned novel for major new production starring Danny Sapani as Kublai Khan and Matthew Leonhart as Marco Polo

MIF19 commission interweaves dance, theatre, music, plus architectural design and

projections by 59 Productions, to conjure up magical worlds

Manchester International Festival 2019 (MIF19) presents the world premiere of Invisible Cities, inspired by the renowned 1972 novel, which centres on the relationship between Kublai Khan, the volatile head of a vast empire, and explorer Marco Polo, who must transcend the barriers of language to describe it for him.

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Director Leo Warner, choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, writer Lolita Chakrabarti, For more information, architects and artists 59 Productions and contemporary dance company Rambert have images, quotes and come together for the first time to create this extraordinary new, site-specific work, which interview requests reimagines the possibilities of live performance. please contact: Conceived by 59 Productions, Invisible Cities will see Manchester’s atmospheric venue the Philippa Redfern Mayfield, a vast disused train depot, transformed through a spellbinding mix of theatre, Senior Publicist choreography, music, architectural design and projection mapping. +44 (0) 7724 285 179 [email protected] Zenobia, a city of joy. Beersheba, a celestial city of gold. Isadora, a city of promise, om seduction and desire. City by unseen city, the young explorer conjures from the ether a vast Maisie Lawrence and spectacular empire – and all for the benefit of an emperor, his master, who may never Senior Publicist get to see it for himself. +44 (0) 7786 075979 [email protected] Performed by Rambert, with Danny Sapani as Kublai Khan and Matthew Leonhart as m Marco Polo, Invisible Cities features design and projection by 59 Productions’ Olivier and Tony Award-winning team of architects, designers and animators. With a score by Dustin The Corner Shop O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie of the ambient music duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen, 36 Great Queen Street soundscapes by award-winning Gareth Fry, Invisible Cities will transport audiences through London WC2B 5AA time and space.

T: 020 7831 7657 Creative Team F: 020 7831 3596 Leo Warner Director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Co-Director and Choreographer Lolita Chakrabarti Adaptor Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie Composers Jenny Melville Set Designer Page 3 of 11 Laura Hopkins Costume Designer

Fabiana Piccioli Lighting Designer Gareth Fry Sound Designer Nicol Scott Video Designer Sam Jones CDG Casting Director Benoit Swan Pouffer Creative Advisor

Produced by Manchester International Festival, 59 Productions, Rambert and Karl Sydow.

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Brisbane Festival, Hong Kong New

Vision Arts Festival, Sadler’s Wells, SMG Live, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Cultural Centre (JACC) and Karl Sydow

THE FOUNTAINHEAD & RE:CREATING EUROPE

Ivo van Hove brings his Internationaal Theater Amsterdam to the Lowry to perform his most controversial work.

Juliet Stevenson to feature in Re:creating Europe an evening of texts and speeches that have shaped the continent taking place on 12 July

One of the world’s most acclaimed directors, Ivo van Hove, will bring this gripping adaptation of Ayn Rand’s uncompromising 20th-century classic, a major inspiration for libertarian politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.

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The Fountainhead is a portrait of Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who rejects easy For more information, routes to commercial success in favour of innovation and independence. Van Hove images, quotes and describes the novel as “a war of ideas”, encompassing art and architecture, commerce and interview requests capitalism, coupled with a passionate hymn to individualism and a dark, violent love story. please contact: Published in 1943, Ayn Rand’s 700-page canonical novel has a long-established cult Philippa Redfern following. Donald Trump referenced ‘The Fountainhead’ as one of the only books he ever Senior Publicist liked whilst Sajid Javid claims to read certain passages twice a year. Ivo van Hove first +44 (0) 7724 285 179 adapted and staged the novel in 2014 Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) and it [email protected] received its American premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music last year. om

Maisie Lawrence On 12 July, ITA and De Balie, a leading venue for cutting-edge debates and art projects in Senior Publicist the Netherlands, present Re:Creating Europe, an exploration of Europe through the +44 (0) 7786 075979 literature that has defined its history. Featuring Juliet Stevenson and directed by Ivo van [email protected] Hove, the performance forces you to reflect on what Europe is, and what it could be. In a m year when a deeply divided Britain is set to leave the European Union, this production uses the words of artists, thinkers and political leaders – from Shakespeare to Goethe, Churchill The Corner Shop to Obama – to evoke the very notion of Europe, forcing us to reflect on what it is, what it 36 Great Queen Street was and what it could become, performed here by members of his Internationaal Theater London WC2B 5AA Amsterdam ensemble with further guest performers to be announced.

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Ramsey Nasr Frieda Pittoors Halina Reijn Bart Slegers Jan van Rheenen, Erica van Rijsewijk Translators Koen Tachelet Adaptor Peter van Kraaij Dramaturg Jan Versweyveld Scenography & Lighting Designer Eric Sleichim Composer

An D’Huys Costume Designer Tal Yarden Video Designer Bl!ndman (drums): Yves Goemaere Musicians Hannes Nieuwlaet Christiaan Saris Emmerique Grandpré Moliere Private Producer

Presented as a pre-Factory event, The Fountainhead receives its UK premiere at MIF19.

Re:Creating Europe is produced by Manchester International Festival, De Balie and Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.

MAGGIE THE CAT

The acclaimed American choreographer Trajal Harrell comes to Manchester International Festival (MIF19) for the world premiere of Maggie the Cat, a new dance work inspired by

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one of Tennessee Williams’ most well-known characters, from the classic play Cat on a Hot For more information, Tin Roof. images, quotes and interview requests Focused on the inhabitants of a house, including Big Mama played by Harrell, Maggie the please contact: Cat is a provocative fusion of high art and pop culture, with multiple influences, ranging from ancient Greek theatre to the Harlem voguing underground, and a soundtrack that Philippa Redfern crosses genres, from electro and pop to classical music. Senior Publicist +44 (0) 7724 285 179 Directed and choreographed by Harrell, Maggie the Cat is the first part of a trilogy inspired [email protected] by women who had to navigate treacherous waters to gain or retain their power. It om addresses power, gender, rejection and inclusion through the prism of one of modern Maisie Lawrence theatre’s most celebrated characters and asks questions about how we can represent Senior Publicist powerful women without tearing them down to make room for powerful men. +44 (0) 7786 075979 [email protected] Produced by MIF and presented at Manchester’s Dancehouse, the audience will be taken m on a journey that, whilst tragic and thought-provoking, will also be entertaining and joyous.

The Corner Shop Creative Team 36 Great Queen Street Trajal Harrell Direction, Choreography, Costume Design & Sound Design London WC2B 5AA Erik Flatmo & Trajal Harrell Set Design Stéfane Perraud Lighting Design T: 020 7831 7657 Katinka Deecke Dramaturgy F: 020 7831 3596 Produced by Manchester International Festival, Maggie the Cat forms one part of a trilogy, Porca Miseria, commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Schauspielhaus Zürich, ONASSIS STEGI, Kampnagel (Hamburg), Holland Festival, the Barbican and Dance Umbrella, NYU Skirball, Berliner Festspiele and The Arts Centre at NYU Abu Dhabi. Page 5 of 11

THE NICO PROJECT

Survivor. Muse. Creator. Destroyer. From her 1967 debut with The Velvet Underground to her premature death just two decades later, Nico was one of pop culture’s most enigmatic figures. Now, long time admirers Maxine Peake (performer) and Sarah Frankcom (director) are conjuring the visionary artist up from the shadows with a stirring theatrical immersion into her sound, her identity and the world in which she fought to be heard.

The Nico Project is inspired by the icon’s stark, bleak and beautiful 1968 album The Marble

Index. Ignored on its original release, the album is now rightly regarded as one of the defining masterpieces of 1960s counterculture. With text by award-winning playwright EV Crowe and music by acclaimed composer Anna Clyne, The Nico Project brings us closer to the ghosts that haunted Nico and the devastating past that shaped her, and celebrates the potency of female creativity in a field dominated by men.

The piece marks a lesser known Manchester music scene story. Nico moved to the city in 1982, having performed a gig there. Finding herself with nowhere to go afterwards she was found a room by a promoter and subsequently made Manchester her and the base

from which she toured Europe and played the live music circuit in the North until her death at the age of 48 in 1988.

Creative Team Co-created by Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom Anna Clyne Music EV Crowe Text Imogen Knight Movement

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Lizzie Clachan Design For more information, Paule Constable Lighting Design images, quotes and Helen Atkinson Sound Design interview requests With musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music please contact: Commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival and the Royal Court Philippa Redfern Theatre. Senior Publicist +44 (0) 7724 285 179 THANK YOU VERY MUCH [email protected] om Created with an international team of leading performers, Claire Cunningham’s new Maisie Lawrence dance work troubles notions of being told who or what we should be and explores the idea Senior Publicist of self-tribute. +44 (0) 7786 075979 [email protected] ‘There are impersonators or tribute artists of every colour, sex, size, culture, age… What m am I missing?’ Patty Carroll, Living the Life’: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists

The Corner Shop Down at the end of Lonely Street – or Smedley Lane, as they call it in North Manchester – 36 Great Queen Street choreographer Claire Cunningham and her ensemble of leading disabled performers will London WC2B 5AA invite audiences to join them for a drink at a Cheetham Hill social club as they pull back the curtain on the glittering world of the Elvis tribute artist. T: 020 7831 7657 F: 020 7831 3596 Fresh from a crash course in Elvis-ing and intimate conversations with a range of tribute artists, Thank You Very Much takes to the floor in witty and revealing fashion. The company will pull on their rhinestone-studded jumpsuits to ask: are we caught in a trap? Who have we been trying to be all our lives? Has it ever been our choice? And is anyone ever truly incomparable? Page 6 of 11

Creative Team Claire Cunningham Concept & Choreography Dan Watson Associate Director Bethany Wells Designer Chris Copland Lighting Designer Matthias Herrmann Sound Designer & Composer Shanti Freed Costume Designer Luke Pell Dramaturg

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, National Theatre of Scotland and Perth Festival in association with tanzhaus nrw and Dance Umbrella. Produced by Manchester International Festival and National Theatre of Scotland.

TAO OF GLASS

Part-concert, part-performance Tao of Glass presents ten new pieces of music exploring life, loss and inspiration.

Created in the round for the Royal Exchange Theatre.

Following their acclaimed opera productions across the globe, world renowned composer PhiIip Glass and Obie and Olivier-Award winning performer-director Phelim McDermott reunite to create Tao of Glass with an ensemble of musicians and puppeteers.

Commissioned by MIF and Improbable, Tao of Glass is scored with ten pieces of Glass’ mesmerising music, all in response to provocations on life, death and wisdom, shot with

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Improbable’s trademark theatricality. In a rare opportunity to experience the legendary For more information, American composer in a setting completely contrasting to his signature larger scale images, quotes and productions, this world premiere will give audiences a rare chance to experience the interview requests personal and experimental process shared by these two collaborators. please contact: Using a series of fragments from their own lives as artistic provocations, the artists – who Philippa Redfern have previously worked together on Akhnaten, Satyagraha and The Perfect American – Senior Publicist have embarked on a playful creative journey, investigating ‘big questions’ in an intimate +44 (0) 7724 285 179 conversation with music, poetry and puppetry. Weaving evocative visual vocabulary, [email protected] memoir and personal obsessions, the chamber-scale piece is reminiscent of Glass’ early om experimental work. Maisie Lawrence Senior Publicist An exploration of life, loss and a single question: Where does true inspiration come from? +44 (0) 7786 075979 Tao of Glass is a storytelling tapestry. [email protected] m Creative Team Philip Glass Composer The Corner Shop Phelim McDermott Writer, Performer & Co-Director 36 Great Queen Street Kirsty Housley Co-Director London WC2B 5AA Fly Davis Designer Colin Grenfell Lighting Designer T: 020 7831 7657 Giles Thomas Sound Designer F: 020 7831 3596 Ragnar Freidank Documentary Maker & Collaborator

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival, Improbable, Perth Festival and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen.

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Theatre.

Utopolis Manchester - Rimini Protokoll Can a group of disparate individuals come together to create a utopian state? And how big can this system become before it falls apart?

Author-directors Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi and Daniel Wetzel, have been developing complex immersive formats for interacting audiences under the Berlin-based collective label Rimini Protokoll since 2002. Utopolis Manchester is a visionary new work that transforms

people’s view of the city as they discover the people and places that create Manchester’s daily life.

Gathering in dozens of small groups, in many different locations, audiences will head out to explore the city and its citizens and discover the many different ways in which people in the city create society, communities, and democracy.

Created by Rimini Protokoll and inspired by Thomas More’s Utopia, Utopolis Manchester asks whether another society might exist, if only for a utopian moment.

Utopolis Manchester is commissioned by Manchester International Festival and Schauspiel Köln.

A Drunk Pandemic - Chim↑Pom The Manchester cholera epidemic of the 1830s is the unlikely inspiration for the first major UK project by one of the world’s most playful and provocative art collectives, Tokyo’s

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Chim↑Pom - invited to MIF19 by Contact Young Curators, five emerging local artists For more information, brought together by MIF and Contact. images, quotes and interview requests Cholera swept through Manchester almost 200 years ago. Tens of thousands of people please contact: were buried in cholera pits in the streets around modern-day Victoria Station and Angel Meadow – and thousands of others only survived because they drank beer instead of Philippa Redfern water. Chim↑Pom’s A Drunk Pandemic takes place in a temporary brewery, built for the Senior Publicist purpose in a secret city-centre location. Audiences are invited to tour the brewery, try the +44 (0) 7724 285 179 beer, check out the special events – and expect the unexpected. [email protected] om A Drunk Pandemic is commissioned and produced by Manchester International Festival Maisie Lawrence and Contact Theatre. Senior Publicist +44 (0) 7786 075979 The Anvil: An Elegy for Peterloo [email protected] On 16 August 1819, more than 60,000 people flooded into St Peter’s Field from all over m Manchester. They came in peace, united in their passion for the right to vote, but as the speeches began, armed troops on horseback charged into the crowd, killing 15 and injuring The Corner Shop more than 600. The Peterloo Massacre was a pivotal moment in British history, a landmark 36 Great Queen Street on our road to democracy. London WC2B 5AA MIF is marking its 200th anniversary with an extraordinary day of performance, poetry and T: 020 7831 7657 music as part of a two-part commission. ANU, one of Europe’s most daring theatre F: 020 7831 3596 companies, are taking to the streets for a day-long series of immersive performances, all completely free. Inspired by the lives and stories of those who died at Peterloo, the company are collaborating with people from all over Greater Manchester to explore what Peterloo meant then and what it means today – reflecting on the events of 1819 while forging a vital new connection with our 21st-century city. Page 8 of 11

The evening sees the world premiere of a major new piece of music, by composer Emily Howard, one of our most original musical voices, and poet Michael Symmons Roberts, winner of the Costa Poetry Award. Both an elegy to the fallen and a celebration of our city, the work will be performed at The by the BBC Philharmonic and a massed chorus featuring the BBC Singers and three Hallé choirs – with all tickets priced at just £10.

Commissioned by Manchester International Festival.

LISTINGS

Tree Idris Elba & Kwame Kwei-Armah Upper Campfield Market Hall, Campfield Avenue Arcade, M3 4FN Thursday 4 July – Saturday 13 July, 8pm Saturday 6, Sunday 7 & Saturday 13 July, also 4pm Previews Saturday 29 June – Wed 3 July, 8pm

Tickets £35 / £30 previews & concessions /

£10 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage Recommended 14+ / under-18s must be accompanied by an adult mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

Invisible Cities Mayfield, Baring Street, M1 2PZ Friday 5 July – Sat 13 July, 8pm Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 July, also 2.30pm

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Previews Tuesday 2 – Thursday 4 July, 8pm For more information, BSL performance: Thursday 11 July images, quotes and Captioned performances: Wednesday 10 & Sunday 14 July interview requests Tickets £35 / £30 previews & concessions / please contact: £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890 Philippa Redfern Senior Publicist The Fountainhead +44 (0) 7724 285 179 The Lowry [email protected] Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ om Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 July, 6.30pm Maisie Lawrence Saturday 13 July, 2pm Senior Publicist Tickets £18–£35 / £13-£30 concessions / +44 (0) 7786 075979 £10 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage [email protected] Presented in Dutch with English surtitles m mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

The Corner Shop Re:Creating Europe 36 Great Queen Street The Lowry London WC2B 5AA Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ Friday 12 July, 8pm T: 020 7831 7657 Tickets £18–£35 / £13–£30 concessions / F: 020 7831 3596 £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

Maggie the Cat Trajal Harrell Page 9 of 11 The Dancehouse, 10 Oxford Road, M1 5QA

Thursday 11 July, 7.30pm Friday 12 & Saturday 13 July, 7.30pm & 10pm Sunday 14 July, 6pm Tickets £20 / £15 concessions / £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

The Nico Project Maxine Peake & Sarah Frankcom The Stoller Hall, Chetham’s School of Music, Hunts Bank, M3 1DA

Friday 12, Saturday 13, Tuesday 16, Thursday 18 & Saturday 20, 7.30pm Saturday 13 & Saturday 20 July, also 3pm Wednesday 17 & Friday 19 July, 6pm & 9pm Previews Wednesday 10 July & Thursday 11 July, 7.30pm Press night: Friday 12 July, 7.30pm BSL performance: Tuesday 16 July, 7.30pm AD performance: Wednesday 17 July, 6pm Tickets £35 / £30 concessions / £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

Thank You Very Much Claire Cunningham Ukrainian Cultural Centre, 31 Smedley Lane, M8 8XB Wed 17 – Sat 20 July, 7.30pm Press night: Wed 17 July Tickets £20 / £15 concessions / £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890

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For more information, Tao of Glass images, quotes and Philip Glass & Phelim McDermott interview requests Royal Exchange Theatre, St Ann’s Square, M2 7DH please contact: Thursday 11 – Saturday 20 July, 7.30pm 13, 18 & 20 July, 2.30pm Philippa Redfern Tickets £18–£41 / £13–£30 concessions / £13–£33 previews Senior Publicist £10 Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage +44 (0) 7724 285 179 mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890 [email protected] om Utopolis Manchester Maisie Lawrence Rimini Protokoll Senior Publicist Multiple locations, +44 (0) 7786 075979 Wednesday 10 – Saturday 13 July, 6–10.30pm [email protected] Tickets £20 / £15 concessions / £10 for Greater Manchester residents on a lower wage m Recommended 12+ / under-16s must be accompanied by an adult mif.co.uk / +44 (0)333 320 2890 The Corner Shop 36 Great Queen Street A Drunk Pandemic London WC2B 5AA Chim↑Pom & Contact Young Curators Friday 5 – Sunday 21 July T: 020 7831 7657 A secret location F: 020 7831 3596 Times and ticket information to be announced Age 18+ mif.co.uk

The Anvil: An Elegy for Peterloo Page 10 of 11 Emily Howard, Michael Symmons Roberts, BBC Philharmonic

The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, M2 3WS Sunday 7 July, 6pm Tickets £10 mif.co.uk / +44 (0) 333 320 2890

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Manchester International Festival Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF launched in 2007 as an artist-led festival presenting new works from across the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture. The next Festival takes place from 4 – 21 July 2019.

MIF has commissioned, produced and presented world premieres by artists including Marina Abramović, Damon Albarn, Björk, Boris Charmatz, Jeremy Deller, Elbow, Wayne McGregor, Steve McQueen, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Thomas Ostermeier,

Maxine Peake, Punchdrunk, The xx, Robert Wilson and Zaha Hadid Architects.

These and other world-renowned artists from different art forms and backgrounds create dynamic, innovative and forward-thinking new work, staged in venues across Greater Manchester – from theatres, galleries and concert halls to railway depots, churches and car parks. MIF works closely with venues, festivals and other cultural organisations globally, whose financial and creative input helps to make many of these projects possible and ensures that work made at MIF goes on to be seen around the world.

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For more information, MIF supports a year-round Creative Engagement programme, bringing opportunities for images, quotes and people from all backgrounds, ages and from all corners of the city to get involved during the interview requests Festival and year-round, as volunteers, as participants in shows, through skills please contact: development workshops and a host of creative activities, such as Festival in My House.

Philippa Redfern MIF will also be the operator for , the new world-class cultural space being Senior Publicist developed in the heart of Manchester, designed by internationally-renowned architects +44 (0) 7724 285 179 Rem Koolhaas’ OMA. Due to open in 2021, the Factory will commission, present and [email protected] produce a year-round programme, featuring new work from the world’s greatest artists and om offering a space to make, explore and experiment. Attracting up to 850,000 visitors, The Maisie Lawrence Factory will add £1.1 billion to the economy and create 1,500 jobs. Its pioneering Senior Publicist programme of skills, training and engagement will benefit local people and the next +44 (0) 7786 075979 generation of creative talent from across the city, whilst apprenticeships and trainee [email protected] schemes are already underway during the construction phase. m MIF’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive is John McGrath. The Corner Shop 36 Great Queen Street MIF is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. mif.co.uk London WC2B 5AA

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