FLARE15 @ Contact and The Martin Harris Centre

Mon 13 to Sat 18 July, various times/prices. Tickets: 01612740600 / www.contactmcr.com Bringing together some of the most interesting new makers of radical theatre from across Europe and beyond, FLARE15 promises six days of original performances, workshops, discussions and at least one big party! Please note: additional events run at The Royal Exchange Theatre, and Z-arts across the week. Full schedule via www.flarefestival.com ________________________________ Events at Contact / The Martin Harris Centre, 13-17 July ________________________________ Festival Opening (UK/ES/GE) Mon 13 Jul, 7.30pm. £12/8. Contact. Over 14s. FLARE15 kicks off in grand style with performances including the multi-award-winning ‘…the Sirens, the Sirens’ by Sleepwalk Collective, an hour of troubling intimacy, chopping up and replaying the iconography of B-movies and early cinema in a joyous and desperate attempt to re-work the cliches into something heartfelt and profound. www.contactmcr.com/flare15opening ____________________________________ Future Flares: Students (UK) Tue 14 Jul, 5pm. £5. Martin Harris Centre. Over 14s. A double-bill of new performance from The Flare International Festival 2015, featuring Ashley WIlliams: The Circulation Game - a digital journey through the mind of one young man, and Leentje Van De Cruys & University of Salford: Whoaaa Steady! - a show about horses, humans and... well, being British (and weird). www.contactmcr.com/flare15ukstudents _____________________________________ FLARE15: Triple Bil (UK/NL) Tue 14 Jul, 7:30pm. £12/8. Contact. Over 14s. A triple-bill of new performance from The Flare International Festival. Hannah Sullivan's With Force and Noise is a one woman monologue on anger, Figs in Wigs' Dance Peas is half dance piece and half world record attempt for eating the most peas with a cocktail stick in 3 minutes, and Sanne Van Rijn/HKU/Johnny's Horse For Thine is an extraordinary experience about living as hard as you can. www.contactmcr.com/flare15tuesday _____________________________________ FLARE15: The Privileged (UK) Wed 15 Jul, 1pm & Sat 18 Jul, 12pm. £5. Contact. Over 16s. Ever seen a polar bear in the flesh? This is when theatre gets truly interactive and exposes as much as much about the audience as it does about the performer at the centre of it all. Jamal Harewood is a solo artist who creates temporary communities through participatory events. www.contactmcr.com/flare15privileged _______________________________________ Future Flares: Work-in-progress (UK) Wed 15 Jul, 5pm. £5. Martin Harris Centre. Over 16s. Rachael Clerke's Cuncrete is a stage version of the TV show that might have happened if Chris Morris collaborated with Jonathan Ross to make a punk drag show about concrete architecture. Antoine Fraval's When You Talk About 'The Swimmer' Will You Talk About Yourself? is a choreographic project inspired by an iconic 1968 film. www.contactmcr.com/flare15workinprogress ________________________________________ Future Flares: Students (DE) Thu 16 Jul, 5pm. £5. Martin Harris Centre. Over 16s New performance from international students as part of The Flare International Festival. Christian/Schwenk's J.U.D.I.T.H is an award-winning, bold and confrontational piece by two young women, mixing body politics and physical comedy in a way which is both disturbing and hilarious. www.contactmcr.com/flare15internationalstudents _________________________________________ FLARE15: Double Bill (UK/ES) Thu 16 Jul, 7:30pm. £12/£8. Contact. Over 16s. Playfully deadpan, shocking and enigmatic in equal measure, El Conde De Torrefiel's Scenes for a Conversation After Viewing a Michael Hanneke Film offers 12 stories and multiple images, oscillating calmly between contemporary literature, art and choreography. Sleepwalk Collective's Actress is a show about language, voice and slips of the tongue: a reckless, noisy, lovesick plunge into the messy heart of how we speak, and why. www.contactmcr.com/flare15thursday __________________________________________ FLARE15: Triple Bill (AU/NL/UK) Fri 17 Jul, 7:30pm. £12/£8. Contact. Over 16s. You Are Kind of Like a Hairy Stranger, Tiana Hemlock-Yensen takes you from the hairs on your head, across the mountains and the seas and back, with no words and just a little magic. Body On by Tamar Bloom & Kajetan Uranitsch is an award-winning piece about bodies, sexuality and activity/passivity. Thomas Martin's Professional Supervision is a time-travelling, coming-of-age murder mystery starring Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. With live music. And songs. www.contactmcr.com/flare15friday