Photos below show (left to right):
Susi Wrenshaw, ghostly girl
Keith De'Winter, henchman
Matthew Ganley, vampire
Russell Kennedy, Victorian gent.
Make-up by Sarah Faulkner
Costume selection by Vikki Phelan
Happystorm, proud sponsors of the Didsbury Beer Festival
Susi and Matt went along to the Didsbury Beer Festival and sampled a few fine ales. All in the name of charity.....
Happystorm sponsored the event which this year is raising much needed funds for:
Wood Street Mission, helping local children and families in Manchester and Salford.
and
Cornerstone Day Centre, providing services to adults facing a wide range of social issues including homelessness, poverty, social isolation, poor mental health, drug and alcohol addiction.
Happystorm win a place at the Social Enterprise North West Trade Fair
TogetherWorks ran a competition earlier this month to find 3 social enterprises who would benefit from FREE exhibition space at the Social Enterprise North West Trade Fair.
Happystorm applied. AND WON!!!
The stand, priced at £348, was kindly provided by SENW.
Joint Artistic Director, Matthew Ganley was joined by his father, Bob Ganley (also kitted out in Happystorm attire!).
Bob was on hand when the stand got busy. With 5,000 people in attendance, the father-son team certainly had their hands full, especially when the giants arrived (pictured left)!
The event was a great opportunity to network and to build the profile of the company.
Featuring keynote speakers: Peter Holbrook, Social Enterprise UK, Sarah Flood, Social Investment Business, Nick Donohoe, Big Society Bank and Claire Young from The Apprentice.
Workshops on finance, leadership, promotion and European franchising were also available in partnership with TogetherWorks, the social enterprise network for Greater Manchester.
Theatre-Makers Creative Lunch in association with The Library Theatre
Theatre Makers Creative Lunch is the Library Theatre Company’s brand new network aimed at supporting emerging artists to make their own theatre / performance.
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"Happystorm have produced some of the
finest and most ambitious
plays to come out of Salford in recent memory."
Salford Online
"Happystorm are becoming something of a brand where you don't need to know the details.
You just turn up expecting something off the wall and different.
They set up strange
scenarios and immerse you right in there."
Salford Star
Happystorm actors help celebrate 2 special birthdays at the Hilton Hotel
Happystorm were delighted to supply four actors in full gothic halloween-inspired costume for the Stobart family's birthdays. Celebrating a joint 21st and 50th, the event took place in the beautifully-decorated Deansgate Suite at the Hilton Hotel.
For details of the next session and to book a place, visit:
www.librarytheatre.com/project/theatre-makers-creative-lunch
Susi Wrenshaw co-facilitates the monthly group along with:
Lowri Evans (Artist)
Sarah McDonald Hughes (Monkeywood Theatre)
Rosie Stuart (Library Theatre)
Liz Postlethwaite (Library Theatre)
Katie Liana Riley (Theatre Producer)
The Myth of Escape finishes its tour at The Pauper's Pit Theatre, Buxton
HARD HITTING PLAY COMES TO THE PIT says The Buxton Advertiser. Read the full story here.
Part of the Buxton Opera House and a vibrant fringe venue for exciting new theatre, The Pauper's Pit has always been an ideal underground alternative to the more mainstream Opera House. Sadly, with the opening of the fantastic new space, the Pavilion Arts Centre, it will be closing its doors....
The Myth of Escape fits in perfectly in the underground, intimate, black box theatre and is proud to be one of the last shows in there, saying goodbye to a much-loved space.
In the photo (from left to right):
Matthew Ganley, Susi Wrenshaw, Andrew Roberts-Palmer, Robin Macdonald, James Jowett and Rob Johnston.
Escape from the crypt.... Salford Media Scene writes about Happystorm's latest adventures
"Having dodged a rat I descended deep beneath the bowels of the city into the dank, dark crypt of St Philip with St Stephen church, which is till home to the remains of its patrons.
The smell was overwhelming, the walls crumbling as Susi Wrenshaw of Happystor Theatre chuckled 'Our biggest challenge was working in an underground space which was not designed for the living, let alone as a theatre space!'
As she spoke, fragments of the ceiling started trickling down my back like the sand in an egg timer. The strange setting was for a production of The Crypt Project earlier this year, where twenty people at a time wandered through tunnels on a journey of life which had the subject of addiction at its core, and had been inspired by workshops with the recovering community inn Salford.
The Happystorm people don't make theatre easy for themselves. First a church crypt, and then a cell - in a restaurant?
'Every obstacle is an opportunity for development and improvement' says Susi, adding, 'Well, that's what we keep telling ourselves...' "
By Mike Atherfold
The Courtyard Theatre has announced the longlist for the King's Cross Award for New Writing 2011.
And we are delighted that The Myth of Escape by Rob Johnston is on there!
The award has now been announced and Rob's other play, Einstein's Daughter
won! Congratulations Rob, much deserved.
King's Cross Award for New Writing 2011 Longlist Announced
Artistic Director Matthew Ganley in The Lonely Clouds of Guernica
Matthew has just enjoyed a well-received run at The Lowry Theatre playing Tony Blair in Come As You Arts North West anti-war play, The Lonely Clouds of Guernica.
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