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The start of something new...

Studio Salford, our In-House Companies, visiting companies & special guests present our eclectic cabaret of performance work in development. Expect to see stand-up poetry, singer / songwriters, comedy, musicians, 10 min excerpts of scripts currently being written, short films, live bands and much more!

Dates: Fri 17th Feb    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: 11.00pm*   

Tickets: £5   buy tickets

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Presented by Gerry Potter.

Creator of Chloe Poems and writer of smash hit play 'Miracle', Gerry Potter brings his brand new one man show to his favourite theatre, Studio Salford.

The sell-out success of 2011's Manchester Literature Festival at Contact Theatre lands happily and haphazardly in its spiritual home.

In this full length one man show, Potter delves into all things male, exploring camaraderie of brothers, abandonment of fathers and the wit and wisdom of Scousers. From the drug induced surreal to the gutter-sparkle dirty real, 'The Men Pomes' shivers with testosterone and tears. Comedy and tragedy fight naked in front of a roaring fire for domination. Sweaty, interlocked and involved, 'The Men Pomes' unearths working-class men as you've never seen them before.

The man who lived as Chloe Poems for fifteen years finally comes to terms with his masculinity and the men who buttered and battered it into shape.

For men and women of all ages, stages and rages.

Gerry says: "In the Scotland Road area of Liverpool men didn't say poems they said 'pomes'. Women said poems. Scotland Road women have no problem with the word poem or poems. I think scouse men think the word poem or poems might make them sound as effeminate as a bohemian crafts teacher. So they butched it up, give it a more bedraggled bullied tone. I like them both. I like the rugged ragged industry of 'pomes' and the malleable creative history of poems. Pomes and poems. Somewhere in the middle of those two words is the gender of how and why I write.

I remember one bloke saying 'Don't like that many pomes but that pome by Blake y'know the burnin' tiger one...thats fuckin' boss.'"

'The Men Pomes'... because men don't say poems.

Read an interview with Gerry at Write Out Loud

Dates: Wed 29th Feb - Sat 3rd Mar    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

Tickets: £7 / £5   buy tickets

Slot 1

Presented by House of Orphans.

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IN-HOUSE COMPANY

Dates: Wed 14th Mar - Sat 17th Mar    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

Tickets: £7 / £5   buy tickets

Slot 2

Info coming soon...

Dates: Wed 4th Apr - Sat 7th Apr    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

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Slot 3

The start of something new...

Studio Salford, our In-House Companies, visiting companies & special guests present our eclectic cabaret of performance work in development. Expect to see stand-up poetry, singer / songwriters, comedy, musicians, 10 min excerpts of scripts currently being written, short films, live bands and much more!

Dates: Fri 13th Apr    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: 11.00pm*   

Tickets: £5   buy tickets

Info coming soon...

Dates: Wed 18th Apr - Sat 21st Apr    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

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Slot 4

Presented by House of Orphans.

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IN-HOUSE COMPANY

Dates: Wed 16th May - Sat 19th May    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

Tickets: £7 / £5   buy tickets

Slot 5

By Mike Heath. Presented by Mediamedea.

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IN-HOUSE COMPANY

Dates: Wed 6th Jun - Sat 9th Jun    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: TBC   

Tickets: £7 / £5   buy tickets

Slot 6

The start of something new...

Studio Salford, our In-House Companies, visiting companies & special guests present our eclectic cabaret of performance work in development. Expect to see stand-up poetry, singer / songwriters, comedy, musicians, 10 min excerpts of scripts currently being written, short films, live bands and much more!

Dates: Fri 15th Jun    Starts: 8.00pm    Ends: 11.00pm*   

Tickets: £5   buy tickets