PUSH 2025

PUSH Festival returns in the New Year for our annual celebration of North West creative talent.

Over two weeks, our stages, screens and spaces will be dedicated to showcasing fantastic works from around the region, as well as offering opportunities for creatives to meet industry professionals, share ideas and inspiration and develop their skills.

We look forward to making further announcements about this soon!

In this season

Afreena Islam-Wright presents

LUCKY TONIGHT!

Join us for LUCKY TONIGHT!, where quizmaster extraordinaire (and former contestant of The Chase!) Afreena will put you through your paces to help her tell her story.…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Takeover 2025

Sat 25 Jan

Join Box of Tricks for the latest PlayMakers Takeover bringing together Northern playwrights and theatremakers to connect, collaborate and create. Brace yourself for the thrill…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Culture Café 2025

Local writers and offstage creatives, join Box of Tricks on Sat 25 Jan to hear all about our PlayMakers Network between events throughout the day.…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Accelerate Showcase

Accelerate is Box of Tricks’ new development programme for Northern playwrights aged over 35. Twelve writers have been supported to develop the first draft of…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Blood Beats Social

Blood Beats is Box of Tricks’ trans-led, interdisciplinary LGBTQ+ writers’ group. This year they’re holding space for LGBTQ+ writers and artists to network and socialise.…

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Presented by Box of Tricks

PlayMakers Offstage: Physical Play Workshop

Join movement director Aiden Crawford and explore how physical play can help build an ensemble and create a world.

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Switch_MCR presents

Bad Science

Darkly satirical and fast paced, Bad Science is a cautionary tale of what happens when a discipline of care morphs into one of control.

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Smug Roberts presents

Dementia Street

When my mums battle with dementia ended I wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so I wrote a one man play about…

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Unhinged

A searing exploration of race and gender in an increasingly fractured city, UNHINGED begs the question: can your version of the past really be trusted?

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Girl Gang Manchester presents

Millennial Pink – Work in Progress

Millennial Pink is a brand-new piece of contemporary theatre exploring how 00's pop culture shaped millennial women's ideas around gender, sexuality and self worth in a society which…

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Mothers Who Make presents

Motherkind

Motherkind is a playful and powerful kaleidoscope of stories about parenting, the maternal brain and making space from the Mothers Who Make Collective.

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111 More Time

Originally performed as part of Manchester International Festival 2023, “111 More Time” is a fictional piece of theatre inspired by verbatim interviews with Nightline volunteers…

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A Divine Comedy – Work in Progress

A Divine Comedy tells the never before told story of Harris Glen Milstead, who shot from obscurity to being one of the biggest and filthiest…

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Dibby Theatre presents

A-Hole by Nathaniel J Hall (work in progress) + Propel

Join HOME commissioned artist Nathaniel J Hall (Toxic, First Time) as he shares a work-in-progress of his new show A-Hole, delivered in his signature hilarious…

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