A MANCHESTER ANTHEM
HOPE MILL THEATRE & RIVERSIDE STUDIOS // 2025
★★★★★
“A Manchester Anthem is bursting with joy, heart, and that unstoppable Manchester spirit”
"Believe me, you’ll want to chat about the play because A Manchester Anthem will sing to you, and you’ll want to digest every word."
MANCHESTER THEATRES
★★★★★
"All departments that made up A Manchester Anthem were dancing to the same beat, and the results are simply euphoric"
“In a city that knows about its music, this play feels like a new anthem of its own.”
NORTH WEST END
★★★★★
“A Manchester Anthem is an exhilarating examination of social class consciousness and the process of maturing featuring an excellent solo performance.”
THE REVIEWS HUB
★★★★★
“Claxton is a master storyteller, and his various characterisations of his peers make this feel so much bigger [...] his huge stage presence and terrific charisma have us in the palm of his hand"
THEATRE TRADGE
THE CAST
Tommy - Tom Claxton
THE CREW
Production Director - Izzy Edwards
Set Designer - Anna Niamh Gorman
Design Associate - Maeve Reading
Lighting Designer - Caelan Oram
Sound Designer - Sam Baxter
Stage Manager - Fae Hochgemuth
Producer & General Manager - CLOUDBURST
Assistant Producer - Ben Middleton
Production Coordinator - Emilia Hargreaves
Press Representative - KMPR
Artwork Design - Madison Coby
Marketing - Flood Ltd
Photography - Olivia Spencer & Patrick Swain
Videography - Patrick Swain
Original Direction - Charlie Norburn
Originating Producer - Rebecca Lyle
THE FRINGE ICON by NICK DAWKINS
Tommy, a young working-class Mancunian, has been accepted into Oxford. He's the first in his family to go to uni – the first on his street in fact…
Join him on his last big night out in Manchester, as he gears up to leave the city he loves. The lights are bright, and the floors are sticky, but will the music stay loud enough to drown out the wedge dividing Tommy between old and new, here and there?
After a sell-out run at the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, this Bobby Award winning show ran at Riverside Studios to critical acclaim.
