Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre will play host to a series of plays and stories for a fast changing world over Spring and Summer 2018. The Spring/Summer 2018 season promises to celebrate great plays and stores which have stood the time of time, reimagining them for the 21st century. The programme, which opens with a brand-new…
Fringe-first award winning piece Two Man Show comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, with a one-off performance to mark RashDash’s new Association Artist relationship with the Theatre. Commissioned by Northern Stage and Soho Theatre, Two Man Show is a genre-defying Fringe-First award winning hit show about gender, language and humankind. It’s loud, raucous yet quiet…
The Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company presents We Were Told There Was Dancing, a brand-new show that takes its audience underground in a daring promenade production through the labyrinth-basement of the Royal Exchange building. What is We Were Told There Was Dancing about? The production is directed by Matt Hassall and developed to mark the…
Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre for a month-long run. The epic tale of community and humanity puts Manchester at its heart. In this intimate in-the-round stage Wilder’s epic exploration of human existence is redefined for now. On designer Fly Davis’ set…
The Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme will become an Associate Company of the Royal Exchange Theatre where it will have its northern base. The scheme supports a nationwide structure of paid opportunities for career development for emerging directors from under represented backgrounds. The Manchester base will be RTYDS’ second base. Speaking of the decision to…
Lewis Bray’s Cartoonopolis, a funny and touching portrait of family life, comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre next week. Written for the stage as a one-man show, Cartoonopolis is based on real events. It gives an insight into the world of Lewis’ brother Jack, a young man with severe autism, and their parents. Matt Rutter…
A bold retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre in May for a five week run. Jeff James, who also directs, has adapted Austen’s final masterpiece alongside James Yeatman. Designed by Alex Lowde, the contemporary production of the powerful love story takes place in-the-round at the Royal Exchange Theatre. What is…
The Royal Exchange’s spring/summer 2017 season marks the second half of the theatre’s anniversary and sees the company taking inspiration from its own beginnings. In 1976, during a time of huge social and political upheaval, from the advent of Punk and the uncompromising activism of art, a radical group of theatre makers reclaimed Manchester’s vast,…
Shakespeare’s whirldwind comedy Twelfy Night comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre in April and May, directed by award-winning Jo Davies, making her Royal Exchange debut. With credits including Don Carlo, Kiss Me, Kate, The Marriage of Fagaro and Carousel, Jo Davies has worked as a director in London’s West End and on Broadway, on productions…
The Royal Exchange Theatre is set to host one of the world’s oldest dramas, Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women. The new version by award-winning writer David Greig will be performed at the Royal Exchange from 10 March, running until 1 April, directed by Ramin Gray. Presented by Royal Exchange Theatre, Actors Touring Company and Royal Lyceum Theatre…
