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• Maine Road Production Pics

  Maine Road by Sarah McDonald Hughes
  at Pure: Funktion as part of the 24:7 Theatre Festival, Mon 20 – Sat 25 July 2009
  All images with kind permission and copyright of Miriam Ainsworth

• Feedback for Maine Road

  Monkeywood performed Maine Road at 2009’s 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester to great acclaim. The audience were invited to feedback what they thought of the show and the press also had their say. Some of the comments below…
  “Very moving and very well performed. Highly recommended.
  Quite touching and melancholic (Being a blue!).
  Very authentic and believable.
  Moving, disturbing – [...]

• Maine Road Trailer
• Press coverage for Maine Road 2010

  Drama Student Magazine 3 February 2010
  Whatsonstage Preview 29 Jan 2010
  Developments by 24:7 Alumni
  5 reasons to see Maine Road with whatsonstage March 2010
  BBC Radio Manchester’s Becky Want’s  interview with Sarah and Dan on Tue 9 March (at 1.21.32)
  Manchester City FC website’s preview of Maine Road
  MCFC website’s news item
  Dig Yorkshire
  Saltburn Gazette
  Chester Chronicle
  Reviews…
  Public Reviews 4 stars
  whatsonstage 4 [...]

• Maine Road Cast

  Thomas Aldersley (Clive)
  Thomas graduated from The Arden School of Theatre in 2004. His most recent theatre credit is Danny the Champion of the World at The Bolton Octagon, directed by Mark Babych. He wrote and appeared in a number of plays for Sheep Town Theatre Company including The Diversification of Veg Boy, which formed [...]

• Maine Road

  Monkeywood Theatre produced Maine Road, a play written by co-founder Sarah McDonald Hughes. The play, shortlisted for the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2009, the most prestigious radio drama prize in the country, was premiered at the 2009 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester.

  Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone…
  Leo loves football. Loves City. Saturdays mean [...]

• Man City get behind Maine Road

  The kind folks at Manchester City FC website have been tweeting about Maine Road for the past couple of weeks and have run a competition for their followers to win tickets to see the show. They’ve also kindly previewed the show and are coming to see it for themselves on Thursday night.

• Maine Road broadcast on BBC

  Maine Road will be broadcast live as the afternoon play on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 15 January 2010 at 2.15pm, 2 months in advance of the theatre tour beginning at The Lowry. Sarah McDonald Hughes had a radio script commissioned of the play which was recorded at the end of last year. Not only [...]

• Manchester City FC get behind Maine Road

  We’re delighted with how fantastically supportive MCFC have been of Monkeywood and our production of Maine Road. A month or so ago, local lad and player for the Blues, Nedum Onuaha, met up with us at Maine Road in Moss Side to talk to Sarah about her inspiration for the play and what Maine [...]

• Maine Road Memories

   
  What are your memories of Maine Road? Did you spend every home game in the Kippax Stand? Did you mind people’s cars to make some extra money? Were you at the last ever match in May 2003?
  Maine Road is a play that will evoke fond memories for fans of Manchester City and we’d like to [...]