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Owen Sheers, Ninagawa's Hamlet, 91Èȱ¬ in Manchester, The New Girlfriend, Armada on 91Èȱ¬ One

Featuring Owen Sheers's novel I Saw a Man, Ninagawa's Japanese Hamlet, and the opening of a new arts centre called 91Èȱ¬ in Manchester.

Owen Sheers' novel I Saw A Man deals with loss, grief, guilt and attempted redemption
Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa has directed Hamlet 8 times. His latest production is playing at The Barbican in London - how well does this 17th Century English play transfer to a setting in 19th Century Japan?
Manchester has a brand new arts centre: 91Èȱ¬. What will it add to to Manchester's vibrant arts scene?
Francois Ozon's film The New Girlfriend is based on a Ruth Rendell novel. How does the cross-dressing of the main character - a young widower - affect his friends, male and female?
Dan Snow presents Armada, 12 Days To Save England on 91Èȱ¬2; taking a fresh modern look at the great Elizabethan sea battle - the reasons as well as the results.

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45 minutes

FILM: The New Girlfriend (15)

FILM: The New Girlfriend (15)

BOOK: I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers (faber and faber)

EXHIBITION: 91Èȱ¬, Manchester including The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

EXHIBITION: 91Èȱ¬, Manchester including The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN


Tony Wilson Place, First Street, just off Whitworth Street West, roughly opposite the Hacienda apartments and a short walk from Oxford Road and Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink stop

Interior of 91Èȱ¬'s theatrephotocredit - Paul Karalius

THEATRE: Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet

THEATRE: Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet
At , Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS 
Thursday 21-Sunday 24 May 2015.  Followed by the Ninagawa Company’s – Kafka on the Shore - based on the work of Haruki Murakami.  Thursday 28-Saturday 30 May 2015, Barbican Theatre


Yukio Ninagawa, Hamlet, Ensemblephoto credit Takahiro Watanabe 

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TV: Armada: 12 Days to Save England

TV: Armada: 12 Days to Save England
on 91Èȱ¬ 2 on Sunday 24 May at 9 pm

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 May 2015 19:15

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