nuclear winter baby (WIP)
Schedule
Mon May 18 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Gullivers | Manchester, EN
Cherry Eckel thinks about nuclear bombs at least once a day and has done since she was 13 — and she's making that your problem.About this Event
"Somewhere there is a button waiting to be pressed... Start the clock. 30 minutes. That's all it would take."
A survivor navigates nuclear winter while trying to keep an abandoned, irradiated infant alive and following 1980s UK government advice. nuclear winter baby; or how i learned to stop writing poetry and love the bomb is a poetic performance piece exploring the spectre of nuclear bombs, asking how can we ever feel safe when the end of the world is only 30 minutes away? An existential, stream-of-conscious confessional investigating home, hope, care and how we live with the threat of and in the wake of violence.
Content Warnings; descriptions of violence, death, grief + child death
Curtain Raisers
Theodore Langdale reading if the meteor comes down to destroy us all and other poems
Kit Miles reading an extract from The Rhubarb Play
Directed by Aaron Cliff
Costume by Emily Fletcher
ABOUT CHERRY ECKEL
Cherry Eckel is a writer / theatre-maker / performer / spoken-word poet / facilitator born and raised in London, once described by a reviewer as “neither masculine nor feminine”. Often writing around themes of legacies and inheritances, identity, violence, and grief, she is interested in creating socially engaged work that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and electric. They have worked across the UK and Europe with companies such as Battersea Arts Centre, the National Theatre, Contact Manchester, Young Identity, Apples and Snakes, Boundless Theatre, and Kulturzentrum dasHaus. Cherry is 1/3 of Pleasance Theatre associate artist company and finalists of the Charlie Hartill Award, BOY Theatre, a ground-breakingly silly theatre company made up of fellow audition rejects, Maria Telnikoff and Kit Miles.
"Sensitive and moving, whilst managing to portray, with endearing humour, the woes of grief and girlhood"
Broadway Baby for Photographs, 2024
"lyrical and vivid moment of storytelling... delicately written and intuitively performed
Ask the Ushers for Dear Little Me, 2020
Where is it happening?
Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, United KingdomGBP 6.66
