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Nick Hern books- 25% discount on Bruntwood Prize winners

Our partnership with Nick Hern Books, who have published many of the winning plays, enable the prize winning plays to have a far wider reach. To…


The Bruntwood Prize and The Royal Exchange

Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre Company transforms the way people see theatre, each other and the world around them. Our historic building, once the world’s biggest…


What are the stories we should tell on our stage- Jo Clifford

21st July. My Gospel According To Jesus Queen of Heaven is being performed at a Festival in Garanhuns, in north Brazil.   The theme of…


What is your responsibility as a theatre-maker to the work and theatre-makers that have come before you?- Kevin Loring 

Our work as artists should be to subvert and transform the previous generation’s assumptions, to question their approaches and attitudes, and to challenge their authority…


What is your responsibility as a writer to the work and writers that have come before you?- Daniel York Loh

A couple of years ago I attended an Artistic Directors of the Future (ADF) event at the Young Vic where Madani Younis was the keynote…


The Open Exchange- Royal Exchange Theatre opportunities

Here at the Royal Exchange Theatre we want to support artists within Greater Manchester to be creatively ambitious with their work and encourage the sharing…


The People’s Judge

The deadline for application for the 2019 People’s Judge was 5pm on October 1st, 2018.  This year for the first time ever the Bruntwood Prize…


Tim X Atack on sustaining a career as a playwright

Playwright Tim X Atack won a Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2017 for his play HEARTWORM As well as the £16,000 prize money, Tim has…