Preview: Great Northern Slam at Newcastle Northern Stage

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Great Northern Slam

Hosted by Jeff Price

Special Guest Rowan McCabe

Newcastle Northern Stage

Thursday 31st March 2016

The Great Northern Slam is back. Their last show played to a full house and made history to be the first Slam ever to go digital. Every member of the audience got a voting gizmo that registered their vote in our electronic voting system. It was fun and it was fast with poets being knocked out like drunks on a Saturday night in the Bigg Market.

It's performance poetry meets X-Factor. Sixteen of the best slam poets in the North have 3 minutes each to wow the audience with words and delivery and then you the audience vote and in each round we eliminate poets until only two are left to battle it out for the prize, pride and the glory of becoming Great Northern Slam Champion.

In addition, they have invited the winner of the November Slam back to do a guest spot. Rowan McCabe has appeared around the country at places like the Edinburgh Fringe and the Bristol Poetry Festival; in the past he’s supported John Hegley, Tim Turnbull and Dizraeli. In 2014 he wrote and toured his one man show, North East Rising (Read the NETG review of North East Rising LINK).

Tickets:

Great Northern Slam - Hosted by Jeff Price

Special Guest Rowan McCabe comes to Newcastle Northern Stage on Thursday 31st March at 7.45pm

£8.50 Tickets

Tickets from the Box Office 0191 230 5151

Online at www.northernstage.co.uk