17 Jun
Do you love to watch innovative theatres? Or want to experience something different which are being presented by exciting new artists? For six days from 13th July to 18th July, Flare 15 will showcase new theatre and emerging international artists to audiences in Manchester.
However, this festival will come with 23 performances by the several artists from ten different countries and will take place in four venues in the city like Martin Harris Centre, Royal Exchange Studio, Contact and Z-arts.
The artistic director of Flair 15, Neil Mackenzie says the Flare Festival feels right at home in Manchester. Along with the Manchester International Festival, it has built reputation for award winning arts and culture of Manchester. Moreover, Flair will be bringing some of the best, distinctive and cutting edge theatre by the new artists from around the country, rest of the Europe.
Here are the five highlights of this theatre:
Figs In Wigs (UK) – ‘Dance Peas’
Dance Peas is a hal dance peace as well as half world record attempt. Well, Figs in wigs will try to break the record for eating more paes with a cocktail stick within three minutes. At a time, there is one pea; not multiple stabs. Of course, they don’t have a stop watch; but do have a three minute dance routine.
Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol (Spain) – ‘#losmicrófonos’
Two adults will play physical games; that is nothing more than the tunes and words from popular culture. It’s serious and deadpan and even go down a storm around South America and Europe.
Thomas Martin (UK) – ‘Professional Supervision’
It’s the stunnning piece of story telling performance with live permances where the pefomances will reveal the story themselves. It’s a Valut Festival 2015; so choose the week award winnner, where it was nominated for the best debut and pick of the year.
Andy Smith (UK) – ‘The Preston Bill’
Most famous theatre specialist Andy smith will offer a presentation of an ongoing show of a new piece of theatre, which tells the story from the North. Well, it’s a story that considers some social, political shifts which have happened over the past 80 years that marks real inception for one of the most conceptual and reflective theatre makers.
Hof Van Eede (Belgium) – ‘Where the world is going, that’s where we are going’
It’s the first most popular show by the theatre company, Hof van Eede. Both sisters Van den Eede and Ans Van den Eede have taken the novel of Diderot as the beginning point and ending up the show which is deliciously, fanciful conversation between a man and woman, ‘who need to go somewhere else, urgently’.