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Sign inA starter trail through Manchester performance: historic theatre, youth-led work, festival-scale production and independent stages. It is deliberately compact until the next Manchester venue batch expands the route.
4 venues
Begin with Manchester's city-centre theatre institution.
Royal Exchange Theatre is a major Manchester theatre in St Ann's Square, presenting plays, performance and public cultural programmes from the city centre.
Add a performance space shaped by young people, community and experiment.
Contact is a Manchester theatre on Oxford Road with a public programme rooted in performance, young people, community arts and experimental work.
Include the city's festival-scale contemporary production house.
Factory International is a major Manchester multi-arts institution on Water Street, spanning theatre, performance, visual arts, music and festival-scale work.
Finish with an independent theatre in Ancoats.
Hope Mill Theatre is an independent Manchester theatre in Ancoats, presenting theatre, performance and musical theatre from Pollard Street.