Operated by by sister company Rising Moon Productions, our dedicated events space can be used for theatre, comedy, live music, events and everything in between.
Events in May–June 2022
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Jordan Brookes & Hannah Platt - work in progress
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Jordan Brookes & Hannah Platt - work in progress
A double bill of work in progress comedy shows from Jordan Brookes and Hannah Platt.
JORDAN BROOKES won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe with his hit show 'I’ve Got Nothing'. He was also nominated for the same award in 2017 and won the Chortle Comedian’s Comedian Award in 2018.
As seen on Late Night Mash (Dave), Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club (ITV), Jordan’s award-winning stand-up show I’ve Got Nothing was recently released on Amazon Prime for the second season of Soho Theatre Live.
“Keeps the laughs coming… Glorious” Telegraph
“Keeps hitting laughter buttons with precision… Crazily, adorably funny” ScotsmanHANNAH PLATT has already been making her mark as a comic, having been described as “a voice of a new generation” by The Skinny and “a distinctive voice with something to say” by Chortle, never shying away from sensitive topics with brutal honesty and quick wit.
She was a BBC New Comedy Awards Finalist, and recently wrote and starred in her own Laugh Lesson for BBC Three. -
Qweer Shorts
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Qweer Shorts
QWEERSHORTS - our exciting night of new LGBTQ+ short plays returns...
Qweerdog are using their experience of producing new work (Absolute Certainty?, For I have Sinned, OUT) to help other new writers take their words from the page to the stage - all with an LGBTQIA bent!
QWEERSHORTS: Spring Collection is the third outing for this new regular event - the nights include a mix of plays, monologues and poetry -some script-in-hand, others fully rehearsed complete performances. Plus, a new platform for LGBTQIA companies to plug, tease and test their upcoming qweer shows.
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Qweer Shorts
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Qweer Shorts
QWEERSHORTS - our exciting night of new LGBTQ+ short plays returns...
Qweerdog are using their experience of producing new work (Absolute Certainty?, For I have Sinned, OUT) to help other new writers take their words from the page to the stage - all with an LGBTQIA bent!
QWEERSHORTS: Spring Collection is the third outing for this new regular event - the nights include a mix of plays, monologues and poetry -some script-in-hand, others fully rehearsed complete performances. Plus, a new platform for LGBTQIA companies to plug, tease and test their upcoming qweer shows.
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Van Gogh Sunflowers
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Van Gogh Sunflowers
Join for a creative evening of drinking and painting.
No previous experience necessary! Get your creative juices flowing and bush strokes going!
Our experts will guide you step by step to create your own masterpiece
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Saturday Night Special: Silly Boy
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Saturday Night Special: Silly Boy
In his intimate debut hour “SILLY BOY” Rich Hardisty takes us on a journey through the highs and the lows of his unusual life.
Expect anecdotes and observations about mental institutions, missing dads and mania, all from his warm/inquisitive/childlike perspective.
In the show Rich tries his best to convey what mental illness really looks and feels like.
But you won’t find any self pity or loathing here… this is a celebration of the beauty and silliness of it all and the interesting, hilarious and sometimes shocking things his brain is capable of doing (whether he wants it to or not.)
Raw, open and honest but most importantly…FUNNY!
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Dan Nightingale is Working It Out
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Dan Nightingale is Working It Out
Dan Nightingale is Working It Out. A full show of very funny stand-up
comedy from one of the very best circuit comedians in the UK. After
the huge success of Dan's podcast 'Have A Word', he'll be going out on
a national tour in the Autumn of '22, but before he does he'll be
developing that show at preview gigs like this one. With full support
from a comedian mate who's been on the podcast, you know it's going to
be a Smasher."We're laughing. Dan's laughing... Funny as hell." Leicester Mercury
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Verbose with Betty Doyle and Dave Viney
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Verbose with Betty Doyle and Dave Viney
Manchester's award-winning spoken word event - every last Monday of the month at The King's Arms! Verbose brings a vibrant mix of spoken word and live literature from a talented bill of open mic acts and wonderful headliners. Expect poetry, prose and everything in between from a real community vibe that gladly welcomes all newcomers.
Tickets are FREE at the point of service but donation tickets are available and greatly appreciated! To apply for an open mic slot please email us at verbosemanchester@gmail.com -
Entertainment Club
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Entertainment Club
After being name-checked by the Guardian as one of the brightest hopes of the Manchester entertainment scene, Entertainment Club is back, by popular demand! Now in the luxurious upstairs theatre of The King's Arms, Entertainment Club returns with a widescreen cabaret format, welcoming not only stand-up comedy but also (though not limited to) avant-garde noise bands, sinewy performance art, and decadent gothic romance.
Hosted by Jim John Harkness ('Veering towards a breakdown'- The Guardian) the evening is an experimental space for exploding the confines of genre, where the audience bring no preconceptions and expect nothing from the performers, except, perhaps, a compulsory offering of their shimmering soul.£6.00 ADV £8 OTD -
The Archive of Dread - work in progress
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The Archive of Dread - work in progress
Exeprience a test run of a material for a new solo literary storytelling show from Nunkie, the being behind The M R James Project, Gallery of Screams and The Time Machine.
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H P Lovecraft: Gallery of Screams
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H P Lovecraft: Gallery of Screams
H P Lovecraft: Gallery of Screams
Two weird tales adapted and performed by R M Lloyd Parry“Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around and call it a ‘Witches’ Sabbath or ‘Portrait of the Devil.’ But only a real artist can make it scare you…”
In these haunting short stories by H P Lovecraft, the American master of the weird tale, an art critic and a philosopher get pushed to edge of sanity by the images and sounds they confront.
Pickman’s Model introduces us to the uncannily brilliant paintings of Richard Upton Pickman, a genius shunned by the artistic establishment because of the sickening realism of his canvases. It is paired with The Music of Eric Zann, an eerie tale of inspiration and possession that Lovecraft himself counted as a personal favourite.
Robert Lloyd Parry has spend the last 15 years enacting The M R James Project, a series of one-man shows based on classic English ghost stories. Here he crosses the Atlantic to pay tribute to James’s exact contemporary – a stranger, sadder man but one with an arguably even greater talent for bringing nightmares to life.
“Utterly mesmerizing” The Washington Post
on The M R James Project