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The Nia Centre at Hulme?s Playhouse Theatre stages its first theatre production in 25 years

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Date published: 8th Dec 2019

Snow White?s Privilege will be the first Christmas show at the historic Playhouse Theatre in Hulme, once the renowned home of the BBC. It promises to be a scandalously alternative panto filled with feuding royals, fake news and a mansplaining prince.

The theatre is now run by a community co-operative NIAMOS with doors re-opening in April 2018. Raising capital from community patrons, they created a community-led theatre in Hulme with productions and workshops by local people.

Margo Riley, NIAMOS Community Producer, said, ?Theatre is made around hard hitting ideas however it usually doesn't involve performers directly affected by the issues and themes. We want to change that and showcase talent and creativity birthed in these communities with a mixture of home-grown and professional artists.?

Snow White?s Privilege will feature a local community cast as well as starring local drag queen Lill alongside some of Manchester?s finest alternative talent. This rude and crude production brims with spirit and power as it turns a spotlight on marginalised voices in our society which are often unheard on stages at this festive time of year.

Written by local writer Elmi Ali, Snow White?s Privilege is a modern, Mancunian sequel to the age old fairy-tale set in the years after Snow White?s happily ever after. It pits the privileged and bored princess against an evil queen who is lurking in murky undergrounds and threatening to rise out of the city?s sewers and back into power.

Ali comments, ?Snow White Privilege is, a more than a little bent out of shape, exploration of privilege pivoting on a very well known very traditional form. This alternative panto is set in, a post happily ever after, that is interrupted by intrusions from our contemporary media landscape. In this not so entirely upside-down world of AI systems and talk show Dwarf Queens, I hope the audience will be able to laugh at the absurdities on which our notions of privilege and power are so seriously hinged.?

In a time of ever-widening power divide between the many and the privileged few, this production is a rallying cry to turn the status quo on its head. Boldly and hilariously, this panto points the finger at those with privilege and gives power to those that have none.

Title Snow White?s Privilege

Running time 70 minutes

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Writer Elmi Ali

Director Nuala Maguire

Musical Director Ollie West

Choregrapher Darren Pritchard

Stage Designer Amy Coney

Starring Lill

AJ LeRoy

Amy Gav