Waterside Arts Centre welcomes some of the best original dramas to emerge from the UK theatre scene – and Wire readers get a free drink with every booking (sign up to our mailer in the top RHC of our homepage for more details). We’ve picked out two highlights; Best of Both World and acclaimed one-man show, A Regular Little Houdini, from the Spring programme.
New musical theatre: Best Of Both Worlds
A fusion of cabaret, lecture and audience participation, this show pitches the UK as a centre-ground between its protagonists’ native USA and France – geographically, politically and socially. It’s billed as A Busker’s Opera and finds its morals in a musical format, questioning our society in rhyming couplets.
Fri 10 Mar, 7.30pm, £10/£8, www.watersideartscentre.co.uk
Edinburgh Fest favourite: A Regular Little Houdini by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
A graduate from 2016’s Edinburgh Festival, Flying Bridge Theatre’s production aims at audiences young and old with its themes of magic and social circumstance. Acted solo by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams, it charts a working class mining town boy’s ambitions of emulating his titular hero and conjuring an escape from his Newport upbringing.
Thu 30 Mar, 8pm, £12.50/£10.50, www.watersideartscentre.co.uk
Waterside Arts Centre, 1 Waterside Plaza, Sale, M33 7ZF, Tel: 0161 912 5616, times and price vary, www.watersideartscentre.co.uk
- Words:
- Ian Pennington
- Published on:
- Mon 27 Mar 2017
