The Royal Exchange Theatre is coming back to Tameside
They are launching a brand-new creative performance piece inspired by their production of Jim Cartwright’s masterpiece ROAD, and they’re looking for Tameside residents to be a part of it.
Rehearsals will take place from Saturday 14 February and continue on Tuesday evenings & Saturday daytimes, culminating in a performance on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 of March at Stalybridge’s Victoria Market Hall (Stalybridge Civic).
Apply via the short form here, by Sunday 1 February at 5pm
The project is open to anyone in Tameside aged 18+ and is free to attend. Due to limited availability, places on the project will be allocated following an informal audition workshop.
No experience necessary, they’re simply looking for people who are excited to tell a story about their community and explore creative outlets like poetry, spoken word, monologues, photography, movement, writing, performing or any other way to express yourself!
More about ROAD
It’s 1986. Your rumbustious chaperone Scullery guides you down the road, picking up the raucous and the ready for it, as ‘owt can happen tonight’. From dusk till dawn, the hopelessly hilarious and divinely desperate laugh, sing, dance and eat chips – all searching for something different.
Jim Cartwright’s award-winning masterpiece invites you to join the inhabitants of this derelict northern road on an unforgettable journey. Shockingly relevant to our lives today, the play’s visceral, eloquent poetry paints a tough world with tenderness.
Directed by Artistic Director Selina Cartmell, this revival marks the 40th anniversary of the play. In this exhilarating theatrical experience, audiences explore the Royal Exchange before taking their seats in the theatre.
‘You want something different. Stay, I mean it.’
