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SUMMARY:An Evening with Fourfold: SOFAR & birthday girl
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DESCRIPTION:Join Fourfold Productions for an evening showcasing two shows
  by Rosa\nGatley — birthday girl (dir. Rosa Gatley) and SOFAR (dir. Mais
 ie Holland).\nBoth shows are fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, 
 taking one last\nvoyage in the John Thaw.\n\n‘a complex gem of new writi
 ng’\n‘pithy\, fresh & sincere’\n\n\nbirthday girl: \n\nthis is a play ab
 out birthdays. it's also about growing up\, the future and the inevitabi
 lity of ageing - a prospect that you are finding increasingly unnerving.
  \n\nbirthday girl is about getting older and being completely terrified
  to do so. for the 45 minutes leading up to her 20th birthday\, we see i
 nside the head of the otherwise unnamed birthday girl\, mixing together 
 anecdotes of birthdays past - the epic house party of your 17th\, the tr
 ip to a&e on your 8th\, the mass sleepover of your 15th - and now\, your
  20th. turn up the abba and put on a party hat because it’s time to age 
 up!\n\n\nSOFAR: \n\nalma is a whale specialist on her final field missio
 n before being forced into an early retirement. \n\naccompanied by sadie
 \, a younger marine biologist fresh out of college and recovering from h
 er first heartbreak\, they pursue the famously crippled whale\, luna\, o
 n her final journey across the pacific ocean to her birthplace. luna is 
 emaciated and exhausted\, dragging herself forward using only her pector
 al fins\, an epic feat of strength and determination. \n\nalma and sadie
  are tasked with tracking her until the very end\, hoping that she reall
 y will make it home one last time\, as alma contends with the progressio
 n of the life-altering degenerative condition threatening to throw off t
 he course of her life completely. \n\n'SOFAR' is about endings and last 
 times. it is also about all the beginnings we sometimes forget to notice
 \, and appreciating all the time we really do have left.’\n\n\nTwitter: 
 @fourfoldprods\nInstagram: @fourfoldprods\n\n\nAge Advisory: 14+\nSOFAR 
 includes themes of death\, terminal illness (including discussions of ca
 ncer)\, allusions to animal death and illness\nbirthday girl includes di
 scussions of 9/11 and mental health\n\nIf you would like further informa
 tion\, please contact MHC box office on 0161 2758951. 
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The John Thaw Studio\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama\
 , Manchester
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