Hive North returns to The Lowry in Manchester, to celebrate new LGBT+ writing at OutStageUs. Seven new scripts from some of the North West’s most exciting writers will take centre stage at The Lowry next month with Manchester theatre company, Hive North, at OutStageUs.
MARTYN Hett unwittingly became the face we all remember in the days following the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena in May 2017. The success of this play, #BeMoreMartyn is not in its staging of the manner of Martyn’s death – it does not, but in its focus on his life and those he impacted closest to him. It is in a way his celebration.
The central theme of this fast-moving two-hander is “How can a boxer be gay?” And playwright and co-star Rob Ward answers his own question in this highly poetical episodic drama – “yes he can”.
