Mr Monkey's Manchester Events & Exhibitions
Current events and exhibitions
Mr Monkey sees the One Stockport frogs
Mr Monkey runs around streets and parks around the borough of Stockport in search of local frogs.
Mr Monkey sees Stockport's Gigantic Leap
Mr Monkey follows a map to find giant frogs in Stockport town centre.
Future events and exhibitions
Past events and exhibitions
2020
2019
Light Falls , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Macbeth , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Stockport's Giant Leap, Stockport town centre, July.
Hobson's Choice , Royal Exchange Theatre, June.
West Side Story , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
2018
The Producers , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Walking with the Snowman, MediaCityUK, November.
Death of a Salesman , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Queen Margaret , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Queens of the Coal Age , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Happy Days , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
The Cherry Orchard , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
Frankenstein , Royal Exchange Theatre, March.
The Almighty Sometimes , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
2017
Guys and Dolls , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Our Town , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Fatherland , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Persuasion , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
How My Light Is Spent , Royal Exchange Studio, April.
Twelfth Night , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
The Suppliant Women , Royal Exchange Theatre, March.
The House of Bernarda Alba , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
2016
Sweet Charity , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
A Streetcar Named Desire , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
The Mighty Walzer , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Barnaby Festival, Macclesfield, June.
Sons and Husbands , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
Wit , Royal Exchange Theatre, January.
2015
Into The Woods , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Pomona , Royal Exchange Theatre, November.
The Crucible , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
The Ghost Train , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
The Rolling Stone , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
Anna Karenina , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
Ghost stories read by Robert Lloyd Parry, Beermoth, April.
Scuttlers , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
2014
Little Shop of Horrors , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Royal Exchange Theatre, November.
Hamlet , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Around the World in Eighty Days , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Billy Liar , Royal Exchange Theatre, June.
The Pardoner's Tale , Royal Exchange Studio, June.
Britannia Waves The Rules , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
The Last Days of Troy , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
Much Ado About Nothing , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
Orlando , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
Manchester Reigns, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, January.
Blindsided , Royal Exchange Theatre, January.
2013
That Day We Sang ,Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
City of Lights and All That Glitters Must Be Gold at the CFCCA, December.
The Adventure , Royal Exchange Studio, December.
Sweeney Todd : the Demon Barber of Fleet Street , Royal Exchange Theatre, November.
Edmund the Learned Pig , Royal Exchange Studio, October.
All My Sons , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Re-calibrate, Chinese Arts Centre, October.
Too Clever By Half , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Kaleidoscope, Chinese Arts Centre, July.
Quartet and The Living Room, Chinese Arts Centre.
Spaceship Unbound, Castlefield Gallery, July.
The Time Machine , Lowry Studio, June.
The Birthday Party , Royal Exchange Theatre, June.
A Doll's House , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
Nina Yuen, CAC, April.
Hidden, People's History Museum, April.
Kevin J Pocock, Castlefield Gallery, April.
Cannibals , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
Saving Lives, IWM North, February.
To Kill A Mockingbird , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
Meiling Tse, CAC, February.
Ma Qiusha, CAC, February.
The Accrington Pals , Royal Exchange Theatre, January.
2012
The Tear Thief , Royal Exchange Studio, December.
Rats' Tales , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Orpheus Descending , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Count Magnus and Oh Whistle... at the Lowry, October.
Re:, CAC, September.
Hang Fen, Chinese Arts Centre, September.
The Country Wife , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
In Posters, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, September.
Babel Fiche, Castlefield Gallery, August.
Dao Gives Birth to One, CAC, July.
Demon Drink? Temperance and the Working Class, People's History Museum, July.
A Midsummer Night's Dream , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
A Thousand Slimy Things , Royal Exchange Studio, June.
Red Tiger King, CAC, May.
The Girl with the Iron Claws , Royal Exchange Studio, May.
Lady Windermere's Fan , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
60-Minute Cinema, CAC, May/June.
Once Upon A Wartime, Imperial War Museum North, May.
Miss Julie , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
A Pocket of Joy, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, April.
Err, CAC, March.
Anti Sculptures, MCDC, March.
Chen Man solo exhibition, CAC, March.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , Royal Exchange Theatre, March.
Birth Rights, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, March.
Two , Royal Exchange Theatre, January.
Last Orders, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, January.
Chinese New Year 2012 - Wishing Tree, CAC, January.
2011
You Can't Take It With You , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Layered, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, December.
Beautiful Thing , Royal Exchange Theatre, November.
First Love, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, November.
GOOD , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Primitive Streak, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, October.
Life in the UK/Balance of Probabilities, Castlefield Gallery, October.
Institution for the Future, CAC.
I ♥ MCR Metal City, Manchester Photographic, September.
Edward II , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Northerners, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, September.
Anarcadia, Castlefield Gallery, August.
Everything Must Go, CAC, August.
AAA - Shaun Ryder and Friends, Manchester Photographic, August.
And Scent of Pine and the Woodthrush Singing..., Castlefield Gallery, July.
Structure, CAC, July.
As You Like It , Royal Exchange Theatre, July.
Sense of Place at the Royal Exchange Mezzanine, July.
War Correspondent, Imperial War Museum North, June.
Powder Monkey , Royal Exchange Studio, June.
Intrinsic, CAC, May.
The Walking Dead, MCDC, May.
Wood For The Trees, MCDC, May.
Civil Diplomacy, CAC, May.
A View From The Bridge , Royal Exchange Theatre, May.
Being Dotty, Royal Exchange Mezzanine Gallery, May.
Ethos, Manchester Photographic Gallery, May.
On Measuring Uncertainty, Castlefield Gallery, May.
5 @ 50 , Royal Exchange Theatre, April.
Forecast for Sunny Skies, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, April.
Born After 1924, Castlefield Gallery, March.
osa/MERZEN, CUBE, March.
Something in the Pipeline, CUBE, March.
I'm Electric, You're Electric, MCDC, March.
Human Error, CAC, March.
Private Lives , Royal Exchange Theatre, February.
A Beautiful Moment, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, February.
2010
Past Present Perfect, MCDC, December.
Greg Hersov snapshots, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, December.
Zack , Royal Exchange Theatre, December.
Sweeney Todd - His Life, Times and Execution! , The Lowry Studio, November.
The Bacchae , Royal Exchange Theatre, November..
David Gledhill and Corin Sworn, Castlefield Gallery, November.
Stephen Berkeley-White Dance Photography, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, November.
The Lady From The Sea , Royal Exchange Theatre, October.
Faces of the North and Eyjafjallajökull, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, October.
Empire's Borders II : Western Enterprise , Chinese Arts Centre, October.
Recorders, Manchester Art Gallery, October.
China : Journey to the East, Manchester Museum, September (7 pages)
Borderlines, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, September.
Doctor Faustus , Royal Exchange Theatre, September.
Summer House: Home and Away, Castlefield Gallery, August.
Infinite Strokes: Chinese Ink Painting, CAC, August.
Night and Day, Piccadilly station, August.
All Aboard, Imperial War Museum North, August.
Threadbare, MCDC, July.
A World Observed, City Art Gallery, July.
Ed Swinden, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, June.
A Horse walks into a Bar, Castlefield Gallery, June.
Liberation and its relative values, CAC, June (7 pages)
Lanwei, CAC, April (4 pages)
Reality TV, Royal Exchange Mezzanine, February.
Goodnight party, Urbis, February.
SPUN, MCDC, February.
Negotiable Values, CAC, January (5 pages)
Urbis Has Left the Building, Urbis, February.
Making an Exhibition of Ourselves, Royal Exchange, January.
2009
Blithe Spirit , Royal Exchange, December.
Distinction, MCDC, December.
The Entertainer , Royal Exchange, November.
Ghosts of Winter Hill, Urbis, November (10 pages)
A Warning to the Curious, Bury Met, October.
Home Grown, Urbis, October (10 pages)
One Degree of Separation, CAC, October (6 pages)
Wood, MCDC, August (6 pages)
Best of Manchester, Urbis, July (11 pages)
Birdhead, CAC, July (5 pages)
Videogame Nation, Urbis, June (8 pages)
Head Full of Magic, MCDC, June.
Memento, CAC, April (7 pages)
State of the Art : New York, Urbis, April (12 pages)
UK Craft Mafias, MCDC, January (7 pages)
Horror Vacui, MCDC, January (5 pages)
Seeing Beyond, CAC, January (6 pages)
2008
Black Panther, Urbis, October/November (13 pages)
Feast, MCDC, October (8 pages)
Interval II, CAC, October (4 pages)
Best of Manchester, Urbis, August (10 pages)
What Are You Looking At?, CAC, June (6 pages)
Urban Gardening, Urbis, April (10 pages)
Beth Essex, MCDC, April (4 pages)
Matthew Williamson : 10 years in fashion , Urbis, April (10 pages)
Contemporaneous, CAC, March (6 pages)
How Manga Took Over the World, Urbis, March (10 pages)
Yofi, MCDC, January (5 pages)
Death by a Thousand Cuts, CAC, January (7 pages)
2007
Catapult 07, Urbis, November (12 pages)
D&AD awards exhibition, Urbis, November (8 pages)
Silver, MCDC, October (6 pages)
Boutique, CAC, October (6 pages)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Illyria Theatre Company, Lyme Park, September (6 pages)
Paper, MCDC, July (9 pages)
Haçienda 25 FAC 491, Urbis, July (12 pages)
Best of Manchester, Urbis, July (9 pages)
The Pivotal Decade, CAC, April (8 pages)
Chain, CAC, April (6 pages)
A Coastal Archive, MCDC, April (5 pages)
Raw, MCDC, January (7 pages)
Arrivals and Departures, Urbis, January (12 pages)
Collective Identity, CAC, January (6 pages)
2006
Every Cloud, Urbis, December.
Celebration of Talent, Urbis, November (9 pages)
China Show, Urbis, November (9 pages)
Creature Show, MCDC, October (11 pages)
0161 Manchester, Urbis, July (9 pages)
Happy Birthday Miffy, Manchester Art Gallery, July (5 pages)
Little Black Dress, Urbis, April (9 pages)
British Art Show 6, Manchester, January (16 pages)
2005
Rock Icons, Urbis, September (11 pages)
Hoegaarden Urban Oasis, Manchester, August (7 pages)
Crouch Mog, Manchester Academy 3, July (5 pages)
Punk, Urbis, May (10 pages)
SuperCity, Urbis, January (12 pages)
2004
2002
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