Lives at Lowry

Name: Lives at Lowry
Start: 2025-02-06T20:00:00
End: 2025-02-07T20:00:00
Location: Lowry

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor Last Updated 29 January 2025

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Lives

Lowry, Salford

6-7 February 2025

Date

Time

Session Features

06 Feb 2025

8:00 pm

07 Feb 2025

8:00 pm

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From £14.00

Lives at Lowry — Image supplied by Quay Tickets/ Lowry.

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Lives is the debut show from Sixth House, a brand-new home-grown theatre company founded at Lowry in 2024 as part of the Hothouse artist development programme.

Exploring themes of hope, greed, love and loss, Lives is a multimedia drama that follows six personas linked across time. Navigating interconnected pasts, tethered presents and fractured futures, the narrative centres around a trial.

A mother stands in court. We don’t know what the outcome will be. However, one truth is clear – within the courtroom, and outside it, there will be no easy verdicts. Billed as an “epic tale”, this bold new work asks us, how can today’s decisions forge a better verdict for tomorrow?

Sixth House are a new theatre company of six multidisciplinary artists based in Greater Manchester. With skills in theatre-making, dance and choreography, music and puppetry, the company aims to push the boundaries of live performance. We’re looking forward to seeing the company’s bold and ambitious debut show this February.

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