Welcome to Manchester Confidential

Reset Password

The Confidential websites will be undergoing routine updates. This may cause the sites to go offline. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience.

Music

ELBOW To Headline Kendal Calling 2015
Manchester indie old-boys will be joined by Snoop Dogg, The Vaccines and Kaiser Chiefs in the Lake…

PARKLIFE: Fatboy Slim, Mark Ronson & NAS To Headline
Disclosure, Rudimental, Grace Jones and Wu Tang Clan will also play this year's Heaton Park…

REVIEW: BBC Phil, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saëns
Jonathan Payne finds perfect balance in a strong programme

McBusted: "The Beatles Wouldn't Play Our Songs"
L'Oréal Blackett wonders if this may be the Smash Hits article she never got to write

REVIEW: Sir Thomas Allen & Joseph Middleton, RNCM
Jonathan Payne on a fantastic opening concert at one of the city's finest venues

Badly Drawn Boy Plays Tram
Bradley Lengden catches a one-off acoustic performance on the daily commute

Reading Tools

Share on Facebook

Tweet about this on Twitter

Send a link via Email

Read later with Instapaper

Write the first comment

You are here: Manchester Confidential › Entertainment & Sport › Music.

Mistletoe and grime

Get down to Contact for Christmas theatre with a twist

Published on December 12th 2007.

Burlesque meets Grime this Christmas as Contact’s Young Actors Company (CYAC) give a seasonal offering you won’t find after the Queen’s speech.

Don’t come wanting panto, Christmas at Contact is all set to go a bit wrong. With stockings, ice, and snowstorms in Martini glasses, this is a very twisted Christmas.

Following extensive contemporary burlesque workshops with Belle Besame, and on-going sessions with Grime artist Fallacy, this years CYAC team have incorporated these two underground cultures into a new piece of devised theatre. The result will be a totally original (and totally unlikely) pairing that strives to tell the truth behind old fashioned Christmas fairytales.

Showing from 8pm on Thu 13-Sat 15 Dec, the show will include aerial choreography, MCs, contortionists, and eclectic dancers alongside Manchester DJ, Chimpo, playing chop ‘n’ screw (that’s remixed and slowed down) versions of Christmas music favourites. Watch as the pleasant family party rapidly goes awry. Should you laugh?

Mistletoe and Grime is Contact’s offering to an unsuspecting Christmas market. Aimed at a young and diverse audience, it will provide the entertainment solution for the age group that has outgrown Cinderella. For more information please visit www.contact-theatre.org