
Works Ahead 2025
presented by Word of Warning and ContactWorks Ahead 2025
About Works Ahead 2025
Our annual sampler evening of new performance returns to Contact on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May at 7.30pm with a double bill of new works-in-development from Adèle Le Gallez and Martha Pailing…
Works
Landings by Adèle Le Gallez
A missing church on Orkney.
An only child in Oldham.
A relief for those in free-fall, and a retreat for those in crisis.
Live sound experiment, demonstration, and storytelling.
Adèle is a writer, sound-artist, and performer.
Failure To Thrive by Martha Pailing
“Touch is the first sensory system to develop in the foetus.”
What does it mean to be held, to be nurtured, to be known?
Part-story, part-discovery, part-surrender: an investigation into touch and regression.
This work unpacks the strange contradiction of being a fully grown adult who is still learning how to thrive.
Martha is a spoken word and performance artist.
About
Each year since 2012, Works Ahead has invited artists to dig deeper into work presented at the previous year’s Emergency or other platform event.
A project developed out of the old Method Lab & SeedFund schemes which hÅb ran with greenroom until 2011, Works Ahead has offered 36 small, supported, work-in-development commissions for artists over the past fourteen years — often in partnership with Contact.
Credits
Works Ahead 2025 commissioned by hÅb and Contact; produced by hÅb; supported using public funding by Arts Council England. With thanks to Manchester School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Project Mentor: Peader Kirk
Websites
WorksAhead.org
Adèle Le Gallez — adelegallez.wixsite.com · Insta @adele.legallez
Martha Pailing — marthapailing.com · Insta @marthapailing
Age Advisory
16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings
Works may involve interaction and/or participation; specific warnings will be listed here in May.
Dates & times
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