Vibrant autumn for Salford Lowry
After months of enforced closure the Lowry complex in Salford returns with an autumn season bursting with over 100 performances, events and exhibitions, including several top-line touring shows.
Drama includes The Ballad of Maria Marten (September 23-25), a retelling of the real-life Suffolk murder mystery familiar to many from vintage melodrama.
Following rave reviews in London, killer-comedy Death Drop comes to the theatre from October 12-16, and following closely on its heels will be the world premiere production of Seventies TV favourite The Good Life (October 26-30), with a strong cast including Rufus Hound as Tom Good, the man who leaves the rat race to set up a sustainable lifestyle in deepest Surbiton. Famous thriller Dial M For Murder adds an air of mystery from November 15-20.
Among top-class musicals is a revival of Lloyd Webber’s one-woman melody-fest Tell Me On A Sunday, starring Jodie Prenger (October 19-23). Originally conceived as half of the composer’s Song and Dance, the piece was extended into a full-length musical some years ago and remains a tour-de-force role for actress/singers.
Dancer and choreographer Akram Kahn takes in his last performances as a dancer in a full-length solo piece; Akram Kahn – Xenos on September 29-30. Following a successful live digital broadcast, Rambert’s junior company, Rambert2, performs online from tonight until Saturday in Note to Self, a poignant piece about memory and forgetfulness.
Ballet Black returns with a double-bill, and Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! 2021 returns for the first time in a decade.
The season also includes circus, a visit from Opera North and audience with evenings featuring, among others, well-travelled star of theatre and movies, Alan Cumming.