Welcome to the home of Green Carnation COMPANY, telling QUEER STORIES THROUGH quality THEATRE.
We are a Manchester based theatre company dedicated to producing high-quality professional theatrical productions and digital work that address contemporary issues affecting the queer and LGBTQ+ community.
OUR NEXT PROJECT: CLOTHES SWAP (R&D 2024)
Green Carnation Company are thrilled to announce our latest project, working with writer Liam Mansfield to develop his new play ‘Clothes Swap’.
‘Clothes Swap’ is a comedy-drama set in an LGBTQ+ youth club under threat of closure and interference from outsiders who don’t understand why a queer safe space is important.
Featuring a cast of young queer characters, their protective but exhausted youth leader, and a suspicious outsider who sees the group as a threat to their own group. Clothes Swap celebrates queer expression in young people and the joys and solidarity of the queer community and demonstrates the power of dialogue, shared understanding and realising there is more in common that unites us, than separates us.
We will be working with LGBTQ+ youth groups to help create the play, as well as working with the young people to create their own creative response.
We are excited to be working with Waterside Arts Centre, Shakespeare North and The Proud Trust to develop this project.
Clothes Swap R&D has been funded by Arts Council England National Lottery funding.
Calling queer writers
We’re looking for new queer writers with an original story to share!
It’s been a long couple of year and we’re itching to get to know some new queer writers with scripts, stories and ideas that they are wanting to explore. We’re especially looking for stories that are a little bit different – stories that give a new perspective, or a queer twist.
Sound like you? Get in touch – full info on link below.
Recent Projects
Vincent River
By Philip Ridley
…Davey has seen something he can never forget. Anita is haunted by grief and shame. They have never met. Tonight their paths will collide with devastating consequences.
This year we returned to Hope Mill Theatre with a thrilling new production of Philip Ridley’s ‘Vincent River’ to fantastic audience and critical response.
Thrilling, heart-breaking, and at times darkly humorous, Philip Ridley’s powerful play examines hate crime, loss, prejudice and sexuality in this tense game of cat and mouse set in London’s East End.
QUEER ALL ABOUT IT is a celebration of diverse queer stories and new perspectives through four powerful and moving short films by four emerging LGBTQ+ writers.
A sister remembers a fateful family game of UNO and an argument that can’t be taken back; a new father has the first day of school nerves; a woman must prove the thing she has had to hide to save herself; a prodigal son returns home for a family wedding, ready to reveal their true self.
Green Carnation Company explore topics of HIV, fatherhood, asylum seekers, gender and faith in four monologues by emerging LGBTQ+ writers that shine a light on diverse LGBTQ+ experiences. Working with film-makers Bloody Bandit Production and local performers, we have brought these stories to life through four powerful and moving short films.
We presented these films alongside Nick Maynard’s monologue FLUID at Turn On Fest 2021: Hope Mill Theatre’s annual LGBTQIA+ festival in partnership with Superbia on Friday 19 March.
Watch the films below:
FLUID by Nick Maynard (sexuality)
DRAW FOUR by Lorna Rose Treen (HIV: 30+ Years of Change)
LUNCHBOXES by Matt Gurr (My Queer Family)
PROVE IT by Lynsey Cullen (Queers Beyond Borders)
I CONTAIN MULTITUDES by Priyanka Jha (Faith and Sexuality)
Each film is accompanied by a short talking heads interview film featuring interviews with LGBTQ+ individuals and charity representatives, responding to the topics explored within the monologue.
MY NIGHT WITH REG
By KEVIN ELYOT
In 2020 Green Carnation Theatre delivered their first successful Arts Council funded mid-scale tour across 5 venues with Kevin Elyot’s wonderfully human dark comedy ‘My Night with Reg‘ exploring the lives of 6 gay friends living in the shadow of the 1980’s AIDS crisis.
OutStageUs 2019
September 12 – 14, 2019
‘Fluid’, written by Nick Maynard as part of the OutStageUs festival at The Lowry working with Hive North.
The Pride at Hope Mill Theatre
October 16 – 20, 2018
THE PRIDE
By ALEXI KAYE CAMPBELL
Our debut production at Manchester’s incredible Hope Mill Theatre in 2018 playing to sold out audiences for a full week. An LGBTQ+ story spanning decades as parallel lives in the 1950s and modern day overlap. How far we’ve come and how far we still have to go…
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