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Displaying events between 02 May 2024 and 31 May 2024
Audio Description headset
Headset to listen to the Audio Description
Dates: Fri 17
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Elders Choir 2024
A choir for Elders Graduates and Company
Dates: Thu 09, Thu 30
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Elders Monday: OUTLOUD
A seated playreading and discussion session
Dates: Mon 20
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Elders Monday: PLAY
Elders PLAY - practical drama session ( first and third Monday of the month)
Dates: Mon 20
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Members Q&A - Sweat
Online Q&A for all levels of membership.
Dates: Thu 23
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Schools Tours
We are excited to be launching tours of the Royal Exchange Theatre exclusive to Schools and Colleges.
We are the North West’s largest and only full-time, text based producing theatre – commissioning, creating and developing original and ambition theatre in our unique in-the-round space, throughout our building, across the city and beyond. This means the shows are made by our highly skilled teams and freelance creatives from scratch using a text. Therefore whether we’re presenting an adaptation of a classic or new writing, your students will get a glimpse and insight into the whole process of making theatre.
You will explore our wardrobe and wigs, hair and make-up departments, where you may see costumes or prosthetics being made for an upcoming show. You will hear incredible facts about the rich history of not only the theatre, which was opened in 1976, but also the life of the building before this. You may meet some interesting characters during the tour, including our mascot Boris.
As well as being informative, this new tour has been designed to be interactive and accessible, including a range of activities and opportunities to get hands-on with some of the elements that bring our shows to the stage. This will result in your students coming away with their own stories to tell.
We look forward to welcoming you into our beautiful building and to giving you behind the scenes access to our unique theatre.
Dates: Fri 10
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Simon Stephens Presents... 2024
Multi-award-winning playwright Simon Stephens presents an evening of exciting new work, celebrating the incredible talent emerging from the Manchester Writing School. It will feature scripts for stage, screen and radio, performed by actors from the Manchester School of Theatre's conservatory repertoire. As Professor of Scriptwriting, Simon will host the event, and the evening will also feature performances of work by special guests.
Dates: Wed 22
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SWEAT
An RET Production. Written by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Jade Lewis. Running from 26 April - 25 May 2024. Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, is destined to be an American Classic, alongside the likes of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. A sweeping state-of-the-nation play that embraces huge political and economic ideas in a magnificent gritty social drama. Nottage’s stunning writing pits friend against friend as social and racial tensions, once buried by a sense of solidarity, soon rise to the surface in this breathtaking drama.
Dates: Thu 02, Fri 03, Sat 04, Mon 06, Tue 07, Wed 08, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11, Mon 13, Tue 14, Wed 15, Thu 16, Fri 17, Sat 18, Mon 20, Tue 21, Wed 22, Thu 23, Fri 24, Sat 25
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Sweat PROGRAMME
The perfect memento to take home with you. The programme contains all the details of the cast & creatives. Don't forget to collect it from the Visitor Experience team on arrival!
Dates: Thu 02, Fri 03, Sat 04, Mon 06, Tue 07, Wed 08, Thu 09, Fri 10, Sat 11, Mon 13, Tue 14, Wed 15, Thu 16, Fri 17, Sat 18, Mon 20, Tue 21, Wed 22, Thu 23, Fri 24, Sat 25
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