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Theatre line-up for the Not Part Of Festival

The exciting and inventive Not Part Of Festival continues this weekend and next week, with a strong theatre lineup.

From tonight, Richard Vergette’s new political thriller Nice, at Studio Salford, Bloom Street, directed by Andrew Pearson, reunites the team behind the MEN Theatre Award-winning As We Forgive Them.

A war correspondent reports without fear or favour and knows the importance of telling the truth. He can’t be compromised, or can he? 24:7’s Kathryn Worthingon is appearing in the play, which is also on tomorrow, Sunday and Tuesday.

At the Lass O’Gowrie pub on Charles Street (and also part of their Lass Fest – check out lassfest.co.uk for full details), New Men is on tonight and tomorrow. After 20 years, Paul and Harry cross paths on a remote old bridge.

Head/Heart at the Martin Harris Centre, Bridgeford Street, tonight and tomorrow, is a double bill of short new plays, Head Music and Heart In Mouth, exploring love and loss in the 21st century with video art and original music.

In Veronica Turiano’s The Name Of The Game (Is Life), on tonight and tomorrow at Nexus Art Cafe, Dale Street, Alfie returns to his wife Allie and civilian life after his final tour of duty.

Tomorrow’s Reflections Of Projections from 2toned Theatre at Islington Mill lays bare the human debris of mental illness.

In Cupcakes & Carousels from A Rebours Theatre Company at Taurus on Canal Street (tomorrow, Sunday and Monday) Anna is finding out that sometimes being grown up isn’t all you thought it would be.

Ian Winterton’s Tag Team returns to Studio Salford from Monday (also Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, July 16).

Over-confident Jez and insecure Alan arrange to meet two women via a dating website but only one turns up.

Also at Studio Salford from Monday is The Mole, The Geek And The Bus Shelter, a dark comedy about people who love to social network. Also on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Closer at Adelphi Studio in Salford on Monday and Tuesday) is a play about sex, jealously and heartbreak.

At The Lass O’Gowrie from Monday until next Friday, The Say Can Blues presents episodes from a man’s transformation, as haunted by a broken marriage and traumatised by prospects of cod depletion, Haydn Trowl learns how to stop worrying and start stalking.

In the award-winning Rocket Theatre’s My Friend William, written and performed by David Platt, a father’s life disintegrates when his child is murdered. At The Lass O’Gowrie from Monday until Saturday, July 16.

In 1968, Paris, the city of love, burned with the heat of revolution. The following year, the world was awash with love. Southpaw Junction’s free show Time Frame fuses these two impassioned states “to lead a revolution of romance, exploring its nature through the lens of cinema and personal reality” next Wedensday and Thursday at the Sawyers Arms, Deansgate.

Why is Brenda turned on by electric shock therapy? Is Simon right to fear ants? Why does Roy buy acid from a Gnome? All will be revealed, perhaps, at The Truth Is, I Can’t Stop Telling Lies at Studio Salford from Wednesday until July 16.

Set in a strip club in 1986 Britain, Broken Silence traces the fate of two women with a dark secret in their past. From Wednesday until July 16 at AXM, Bloom Street.

Cut It Out, at Joshua Brooks from Wednesday until July 16, is a contemporary drama exploring issues relating to self-harming in young women.

In Dear Mummy, at Salford Arts Theatre, Kemsing Walk, on Wednesday, the play is embodied in a video which a daughter uses to explain herself to her mother, and to herself.

The women you see every day, the women you ignore, and the women you love share their frank and honest accounts with you in The Woman at Taurus on Thursday and July 16.

The Last Tale Of Scheher-azade  and Knock Knock are two short plays written and directed by Abas El Janabi, performed next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Salford Arts Theatre.
 
A man and woman meet in a box, a patient undergoes testing by a nervous nurse and Britain heads for dystopia in The Box, at Jabez Clegg next Friday and Saturday.

Excuse Me, I’m Trying To Please You presents a range of newly written character monologues, blended with interpretations of well-known songs.

In the style of the late, great Joyce Grenfell, Fiona will try to ‘please you’ as she and a pianist share with you glimpses of other people’s amusing, sometimes tragic, sometimes bizarre lives. Next Friday at Taurus.

You can get more information on any of the shows in Not Part Of at notpartof.org.