New jokes. Half-formed ideas. Beautifully risky work-in-progress. Lowry Scratch Nights is back this March. 

We're delighted to present our next Scratch Nights x Live Comedy edition, curated in collaboration with artists Aarian Mehrabani and Edy Hurst.

Scratch Nights is our space for early ideas and brand-new work. An evening where artists share work-in-progress and explore what happens when new material meets a live audience. 

These informal nights offer a supportive space for artists to try out new work in front of an audience - and for audiences to experience performance at its earliest stage. 

For this Scratch Nights x Live Comedy edition, we're welcoming 10 comedians and comedy performance makers from across the UK to bring fresh experiments, new sketches, half-formed concepts and works-in-progress to the Studio Theatre. Some pieces may grow into future shows, and others might simply be tried out for the first time - it's all part of the process. 

Expect an evening that's playful, surprising and full of potential.