Contact's Autumn Season

 

OUR 22/23 AUTUMN SEASON IS HERE

It's finally here!  We're ecstatic to kick off our 50th birthday year with a rollercoaster of relevant and remarkable new work from the country's hottest artists and performers. From neurodivergent cabaret to a carbon-neutral dance party and tennis and poetry bonanza, the castle of curiosity is set to delight. Our Artistic Director/CEO Keisha Thompson will also premiere 14%, a new play examining Britishness and football culture. Keep reading to uncover our season highlights, and click below to secure your tickets!

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SPOKEN MOVEMENT: FAMILY HONOUR 29 Sept 22 Through a brilliantly unique meeting of hip hop and theatre, Family Honour asks how far one would go to uphold family expectations and whether it’s truly honourable to do so or just another traditional taboo? LEARN MORE NOT YOUR CIRCUS DOG: NOT F**KIN SORRY 29 - 30 Sept 22 Join the Not Your Circus Dog collective in an evening of shameless sexy punk crip cabaret. With luscious lip syncs, sweaty dances and verbatim stories, have your preconceptions rattled as we take you to the edge. LEARN MORE OUTBOX: GROOVE 5 - 7 Oct 22 Featuring a fierce and mighty intergenerational cast of dancers and actors, GROOVE explores the dance floor as a place of protest, identity, belonging and desire. Join us as we shimmy and shapeshift through time and across decades to make your mind and body MOVE.  LEARN MORE

ROMA HAVERS: LOB 5 - 8 Oct 22 LOB is a tennis, poetry bonanza about moving through sporting spaces as a queer body, written and performed by Roma Havers. This dance and poetry show prioritises the rearticulation of failure and shame and what it could mean to move as queer bodies in sporting spaces.  LEARN MORE BLACK ANGEL 25 8 Oct 22 The pioneering club night returns for a special event on Saturday 8th October to celebrate 25 years of Black Angel, the birth of the Black and Asian LGBT+ club scene in Manchester and the first women-centred safe place for Black and Asian women to come together and be themselves. LEARN MORE AMY VREEKE: GLOWING 18 - 22 Oct Candid, ferocious, funny and loud, Glowing debunks the myths that pregnant women are having the time of their lives and new mothers spend their days softly singing nursery rhymes to sleeping babies. LEARN MORE

PIGFOOT: HOT IN HERE 1 - 3 Oct 22 HOT IN HERE is a carbon-neutral dance party celebrating action for climate justice. The show is powered by the first energy-harvesting dancefloor in live theatre, converting the energy of the performers’ bodies into electricity. LEARN MORE 20 STORIES HIGH: TOUCHY LIVE 10 - 12 Nov 22 What happens when some of Liverpool’s finest rappers, singers, poets, and Ninjas get creative in one space? The answer: something truly unique. After a two-year gap, 20 Stories High are back on the road with a double bill bursting at the seams with originality, scouse humour and grit. LEARN MORE DEMI NAHNDRA: THE TRAUMA SHOW 15 - 16 Nov 22 Demi Nandhra is obsessed with trauma, childhood trauma, naming it, analysing it, healing from it, and getting-on-stage-to-perform-it.The Trauma Show explores the impacts of adverse childhoods, making a show and dance out of it, mourning our little selves, ‘therapise’ culture and how TikTok can heal us all. LEARN MORE

We're also presenting new performances from Contact Young Company and some of the best of the UK’s new touring shows and emerging artists, including work from Half Moon Theatre and Split Britches! Also, experience events including the 'Hear Me Now' book launch, Black Angel's 'NewVision' exhibition, Word of Warning's 'Emergency', Jenny Gaskell's 'With my Ear to the Wall', the Forward Prizes award ceremony & many more at Contact this season. We can't wait to catch you in the castle!

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