Flare Festival
Directed by Neil Mackenzie, Kevin Egan and Lisa Mattocks, and growing out of the huge success of MIST – the Manchester International Student Theatre Festival in 2007 - The Flare International Festival of New Theatre took place across venues in Manchester 4-9th July 2011.
Embracing work by students, graduates and other new theatre makers, Flare successfully profiled and celebrated the community of practice exploring and producing radical new theatre and performance across Europe.
Presenting a total of over twenty performances Flare brought together the best new theatre makers for five intensive days in Manchester, to show their work to their peers and the public alike, and to network and bond as a community of new practitioners, against the backdrop of the world's first international festival of original, new work and special events, the Manchester International Festival.
Nicki Hobday Conquers Space
A collaboration between Plane Performance director Neil Mackenzie and performer Nicki Hobday.
See edited highlights on Youtube, here.
Nicki Hobday hasn’t arrived. The stage is empty and only the expectations of the audience and a load of possibilities are present. Things unfold nevertheless, with overblown soundtracks and performing raincoats, as expectations are fleshed out and romantic fantasies threaten to take over. Indeed it’s only when she does, finally, show up that it all starts to go seriously wrong.
Marking a new point where theatre and comedy meet, Nicki Hobday Conquers Space crams all time and all space into one theatrical moment, one that keeps feeding back on itself, in a desperate attempt to avoid facing the facts…
Award winning performer Nicki Hobday teams up for the first time with director Neil Mackenzie, in an hilarious mix of high ideas and low humour.
Nicki Hobday Conquers Space is supported by greenroom, Manchester
click here for a review of the piece in The Stage
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