MIF17: No End to Enderby at The Whitworth

Name: MIF17: No End to Enderby at The Whitworth
Start: 2017-06-30T00:00:00
End: 2017-07-16T23:59:00
Location: The Whitworth

Creative Tourist Posted 21 June 2017

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MIF17: No End to Enderby

The Whitworth, Manchester

30 June-16 July 2017

Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.

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Centred on two new films inspired by Burgess’s ‘Enderby’ series: Inside Mr Enderby, in which a school trip travels back in time to pay desultory homage to the title character, a dead poet; and The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare really wrote everything credited to him.

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