Theatre
Creative TouristThis month’s theatre highlights span dystopian classics, political thrillers and bold new opera.
First up, dystopia. At Waterside Arts, Box Tale Soup transform Orwell’s 1984 through puppetry, movement and original music. More adaptation as Lowry hosts imitating the dog’s The War of the Worlds, in which model worlds and camera trickery combine with live performance and projection.
Down at 53two, James Graham’s The Angry Brigade revisits 1970s Britain, tracing the real-life anarchist collective who declared they were fighting back against what they saw as a one-sided class war.
Opera arrives in force at Aviva Studios with ENO’s UK premiere of Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s Angel’s Bone – a stark allegory of exploitation and abuse of power – and Mozart’s sparkling Così fan tutte at The Bridgewater Hall.
Elsewhere, Bryony Kimmings’ Bog Witch wrestles with eco-anxiety and reconnection at HOME, Liverpool Everyman hosts Becket’s classic Waiting for Godot, and it’s the last chance to catch a puppet-powered Pinocchio at Lowry.