Re:Play is the Library Theatre Company’s annual celebration and showcase of some of the best work produced in Manchester’s smaller venues over the previous year.

The third Re:Play Festival, which takes place between Tuesday 26 January - Saturday 6 January 2010, features six productions; a series of short plays presented as one programme; FirstStage, which offers writers, devisers and performers the chance to have their ideas in development tested on the Library stage (see below for downloadable flyer and more information); and the Re:Play debate, which will examine the future of small-scale theatre in Manchester and Salford.

The programme and performance schedule for Re:Play 2010 will be announced no later that Friday 20 November, so please watch this space for full details.
 
For more information about the work and opportunities available, here are links to some of Manchester and Salford’s most exciting companies, venues and organisations.


24:7 Festival:
The annual 24:7 Theatre Festival presents a repertoire of new, adjudicated 60-minute productions in non-theatre venues in Manchester city centre. This year\\\\\\\'s festival, between Monday 20-Sunday 26 July 2009, features 21 different productions in Pure (in the Printworks), and New Century House (part of the Co-op′s HQ).
www.247theatrefestival.co.uk/


Not Part of Festival:
An open multi-arts festival that complements and balances the Manchester International Festival by removing barriers, fostering a DIY ethic, and creating an across discipline supportive network for artists and creators.
www.notpartof.org/

PANDA
Performing Arts Network and Development Agency (PANDA) supports and nurtures emerging performing arts companies and individuals within the North West with a focus on Greater Manchester, creating an environment for business development and growth, and offers a range of services to anyone working or interested in theatre, dance, street theatre, music theatre, live art, multi-disciplinary arts or writing for stage.
www.panda-arts.org.uk/

Studio Salford:
Studio Salford is an umbrella group representing and promoting several theatre companies, raising the profile of Salford as a viable artistic location and promoting artists from all over Salford and Manchester, with an intimate and unique performance space upstairs at The King’s Arms M3.
www.studiosalford.com/

Taurus:
Taurus is committed to providing a space for new, locally based talent to write, direct, perform and produce their own work, in a city-centre location.
www.taurus-bar.co.uk/

First Stage:

The Library Theatre’s annual Re:Play Festival, which brings to the Library stage the best of the theatre seen on Manchester and Salford’s non-theatre stages, thus giving them a wider exposure, returns in January 2010 for the third year.

As in 2009, there will be an event called ‘FirstStage’, which offers writers, devisers and performers the chance to have their ideas in development tested on the Library stage.

If you’re a budding writer, deviser, or performer, and want to see your proposal put under the Re:Play microscope, please send a script and a synopsis of no more than 500 words to Nicky Hatton and Claire Symonds at first.stage@hotmail.co.uk, to arrive no later than Monday 30 November.

Click on the link below to download a flyer with further information about the event.

• first stage (pdf)