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Audio Description headset Headset to listen to the Audio Description Dates: Sat 26 Booking and More Information

Bruntwood Prize Ceremony 2025 - PUBLIC EVENT This event is synced to the website and is for members of the public to book unreserved tickets online. The tickets will be allocated by Rachel Morris. Dates: Mon 21 Booking and More Information

LIBERATION Produced by the Royal Exchange Theatre and Factory International, Manchester. Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who fought to liberate Africa. A story of hope, friendship and the consequences of a long-denied awakening unravels in the conference halls and bars of Chorlton, but at what cost? Receiving its World Premiere as part of Manchester International Festival 2025, LIBERATION includes composition by Ife Ogunjobi from the Brit Award-winning Ezra Collective and was commissioned by the Royal Exchange Theatre.
Dates: Sat 12, Tue 15, Wed 16, Thu 17, Fri 18, Sat 19, Tue 22, Wed 23, Thu 24, Fri 25, Sat 26 Booking and More Information

Liberation Building History Tours Uncovering the Past: A Special History Tour of the Royal Exchange
Before we can move forward, we must look back—together.
We invite you to join us for a specially curated tour of the Royal Exchange building—created to seek a better understanding
and reflection on its historical connections to the transatlantic slave economy from research undertaken by the Emerging
Scholars programme at the University of Manchester as part of the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective.
Led by a member of the Royal Exchange Theatre in a supportive space, this intimate experience is designed to open up
conversation, share what we know, and acknowledge the complex legacy of commerce, power, and exploitation that shaped
the Exchange building and the city of Manchester.
Together, we will:
• Explore the building’s origins as a business exchange at the heart of global trade
• Reflect on how this wealth was built and who paid the price
• Consider what it means to hold art and community within these walls today
This is not about having all the answers, it’s about making space for collective understanding. We are dedicated to uncovering
more about the building’s past and are delighted to say that we are continuing our partnership with the Emerging Scholars
programme, working with a new group of students to continue the in-depth research into the history of this building we now
occupy.
The tour will conclude with an opportunity to attend LIBERATION —a powerful new production that celebrates resistance,
resilience, and the ongoing fight for justice. It traces the private lives of activists who fought to liberate Africa in 1945
Manchester at the Fifth Pan-African Congress.
This is an invitation to witness, to question, and to feel—together. Dates: Fri 18, Wed 23 Booking and More Information

Liberation PLAYTEXT The playtext is a paper copy of the show script, and also contains additional information about the production, cast and creative. Dates: Sat 12, Sun 13, Tue 15, Wed 16, Thu 17, Fri 18, Sat 19, Sun 20, Tue 22, Wed 23, Thu 24, Fri 25, Sat 26 Booking and More Information