New theatre: Contact’s new play ‘Ramping Up’ at The Bread Shed

Following a successful run at Battersea Arts Centre, the new stage show ‘Ramping Up’ is heading North. It’s coming to The Bread Shed – the music venue in All Saints – for performances this Friday and Saturday. The play features a mixture of spoken-word, rap, and song. It centres on a group of young actors who are abruptly informed that they are to stage T.S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’, instead of their chosen play. Through their frustration and mockery, their personal stories unfold. A topical work, it plays with the theme of Brexit, where younger people have inherited a future which they don’t necessarily want. What do the youth of today have to say about situation we’re all in? ‘Ramping Up’ was developed by Battersea Arts Centre’s Homegrown Company and Contact Theatre’s Young Company. Each performance will be captioned and audio described. A touch tour will take place 30 mins before each show time.

Fri 3 May – Sat 4 May, The Bread Shed, 126 Grosvenor Street, All Saints, Manchester, M1 7HL, Tel: 0161 273 1471, 7.30pm (Fri), 1.30pm, 7.30pm (Sat), £10 – £20, www.contactmcr.com