About

​​Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) create immersive experiences, expanding perception and exploring our connection with the natural world. Fusing architectural tools, contemporary imaging techniques and performance with tactile forms, MLF sculpt spaces that lay dormant until animated by curiosity and exploration. Informed as much by playfulness as research, MLF breaks the boundaries to worlds beyond our senses.

Manchester International Festival (MIF) is an artist-focused festival of original, new work and special events reflecting the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture, staged every two years in Manchester. MIF will also run The Factory, the new landmark cultural space currently being built in the heart of Manchester and designed by the internationally renowned OMA. The Factory will commission, present and produce one of Europe’s most ambitious and adventurous year-round creative programmes, featuring bold new work from the world’s greatest artists and offering a space to create, invent and play.

Philharmonia is a world-class symphony orchestra for the 21st century. Based in London at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, resident in cities and at festivals across England, and streaming online, the Philharmonia creates thrilling performances for a global audience. It is a digital pioneer, using technology to reach new audiences.

Punchdrunk creates work which disrupts the theatrical norm and places audiences at the very heart of the action. Punchdrunk has pioneered a game-changing form of experiential entertainment in which roaming audiences experience epic and emotional storytelling inside sensory theatrical worlds. Blending classical texts, physical performance, award-winning design installation, and unexpected sites, the company’s infectious format rejects the passive obedience usually expected of audiences. Instead, audiences are invited to rediscover the thrill of exploring the unknown, experiencing that rare and intoxicating sense of wonder and awe that stays with them long after the physical experience ends.

Punchdrunk Enrichment is a charity creating transformational experiences for education, family and community audiences. Using intricate design, innovative storytelling and excellent participatory practice, the charity creates theatrical work that celebrates the imagination and has a powerful impact on all who participate. Punchdrunk Enrichment works across schools and colleges, with teachers directly, cultural partners and local authority settings, as well as online.

Royal Shakespeare Company creates theatre at its best, made in Stratford-upon-Avon and shared around the world. The company produces an inspirational artistic programme each year, setting Shakespeare in context, alongside the work of his contemporaries and today’s writers.