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Look Up – Ruth E Cockburn at Lancashire Fringe Festival
We spend so much time looking at screens that we have begun to miss out on life. So, Ruth is coming to Preston to tell some of the stories she’s heard about love, friendship and families. Look Up is the party you always wished for as Ruth sets out on a one-woman mission to get…
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Lancashire Fringe Festival – the information you need
Press release May 3, 2019 Performers announced for Lancashire Fringe Festival Some of the UK’s most hard-hitting, controversial and funny shows are coming to Preston as part of Lancashire Fringe Festival. Hugely respected names in contemporary performance will play alongside acclaimed poets and award-winning performers, giving the people of Lancashire a unique festival experience –…
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Why you need to go to an event
I’m writing this from the perspective as a fan of the arts. By arts I mean exhibitions, performances and theatre, but not the theatre of big shows and musicals – they leave me feeling a bit empty inside. This short article is about events – and how important it is to go to them. And…
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I Surrender! by Karen Featherstone comes to Lancashire Fringe Festival
Karen Featherstone will debut her play I Surrender! in Preston as part of the new development commissions for Lancashire Fringe Festival. I Surrender! is a show about vulnerability, how good her dad was at swearing in Welsh and what happened on the worst day of her life. Karen Featherstone has written plots for Coronation Street…
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Poetry workshops in the build up to Lancashire Fringe Festival
As part of Lancashire Fringe Festival, Louise Fazackerley is working with three poets – Amy Lee Tempest, Helena Ascough and Richy Integer – who will perform on the opening night of the festival (Weds May 15 at Vinyl Tap). Louise is also running a FREE poetry workshop in Preston on the afternoon of Weds, May…
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Goth Diary – Karina Azlanova at Lancashire Fringe Festival
Goth Diary – Karina Azlanova Karina Azlanova will perform Goth Diary at Lancashire Fringe Festival. The Armenian-Ukrainian comic, performance artist and cosplayer developed her observational stand-up o the comedy circuit in the Czech Republic. Now living in North-west England, Karina brings her acclaimed performance to the Harris Museum on Saturday, May 18. She will read…
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Fuck You Pay Me by Joana Nastari at Lancashire Fringe Festival
[Photo: Alex Brenner] TICKETS LINK – Tickets are free for F*ck You Pay Me but you need to register here: https://cutt.ly/ArKE3u Derelict Mayhem have four shopws on immediately before F8ck You Pay Me in Media factory. These are also free and you book a ticket for all of them here: https://derelictliveblog.wordpress.com/derelict-mayhem/ Brilliant show Fuck…
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Wandering Poet Tour part of Lancashire Fringe Festival
The Woolly Hat Poet will be part of Lancashire Fringe Festival as he stops off on his own 12-date tour to perform in Preston. Lancaster-based Benjamin Guilfoyle is walking 125 miles taking in 12 venues as part of his wandering Poet tour between Lancaster and Brighouse. He will be joined on stage at Vinyl Tap,…
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Lancashire Briefs: Monologues at Lancashire Fringe Festival over two nights
Lancashire People’s Theatre in partnership with members of Just Write presents ‘Lancashire Briefs’. Two evenings of short monologues about Lancashire life. Written and performed by Lancashire-based actors and writers. A new Lancashire-based theatre company will debut their first original pieces of work at Lancashire Fringe Festival. Lancashire People’s Theatre have brought together over a dozen…
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Louise Orwin’s Oh Yes Oh No comes to Lancashire Fringe Festival
A playful, provocative journey through female sexuality and who gets to have a say in it, featuring Barbie’n’Ken role-play, a heady mix of pop culture references and dramatic sound design. Conceived, written and performed by Louise Orwin. “Bold, brave work, and all the better for being filled with the voices of real women who, by…