Contact keeps 'em coming . . .

Published: 19 July 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Umar Ahmed, Kiran Sonia Sawar and Karen Bartke in Tamasha's My Name Is...

Autumn at Contact in Manchester features major names, radical international work and a host of up and coming companies.

Previously announced season highlights include Mark Bruce Company’s acclaimed and award-winning dance theatre production of Dracula, Tamasha’s verbatim play, My Name Is… and the return of Afrovibes festival.

More recently announced events include a co-presentation of imitating the dog’s A Farewell To Arms with and at The Lowry; Contact commission No Guts, No Heart, No Glory made with young female Muslim boxers by Common Wealth; Action Hero’s adrenaline-fuelled take on sport, Hoke’s Bluff; plus the welcome return of Scottee, Paul Sinha, Bryony Kimmings and Kate Tempest alongside a host of local and up-and-comings artists and companies.

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