NW Productions

Published: 22 November 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Pinocchio at Blackpool Tower Circus
Pharaoh ’Cross The Mersey at Liverpool's Royal Court

Blackpool Tower Circus will play host to an action packed Circus extravaganza from this week with its newest family pantomime, Pinocchio.

Pharaoh ’Cross The Mersey is the seventh in a series of Liverpool comedies from Fred Lawless and runs at the Royal Court in Liverpool from next Friday.

Uninvited Guests and Fuel present This Last Tempest, a radical take on The Tempest for both audiences familiar with the play and those new to Shakespeare at Contact in Manchester on Thursday and Friday.

Two chances next week to catch Figs in Wigs in Show Off, a “tongue-in cheek variety show.” Catch them in Preston at The Continental on Wednesday night or at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre the following night. On Thursday night, they will be part of a double bill with Beating McEnroe, a solo show from award-winning theatre maker Jamie Wood.

The 15th annual Shakespeare Schools Festival arrives at Lancaster's Dukes theatre next Wednesday.

Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan and documentary photographer Ian Beesley stage an evening of photography, poetry and magic at the Platform in Morecambe next Thursday.

Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University hosts a double bill of theatre with 2Magpies Theatre's The Litvinenko Project and Christopher Brett Bailey’s This is How We Die next Tuesday.

The Touring Consortium Theatre Company and Royal & Derngate Northampton present a world première of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World at the Grand in Blackpool next week.

English National Ballet brings two dance performances to Manchester’s Palace Theatre next week.

Proud and Loud Arts present a modern take on Ovid’s classic tale of Pyramus and Thisbe at Contact in Manchester next week.

The 1121 Collective stages its latest production When I Last Saw You You Were Just A Girl at the Ziferblat Café on Edge Street in Manchester next week.

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