Malandra Jacks
Census
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Presented by Word of Warning + HOME
This is what happens when a working-class community tells its own story…
A bus ride. A bingo card. A memory you didn’t know you shared.
This is our neighbourhood, not the one in the media, but the one shaped by our stories, our laughter, and our silence.
Award-winning duo Malandra Jacks invite you into a world of spellbinding projection, real voices, and unapologetic heart. Part theatre, part time capsule: a celebration of communities rarely seen on stage.
Funny, intimate, and defiant — Census is a love letter to working-class communities, and a call to remember who we are and what we carry with us.
Winner of Best Performance at Manchester Culture Awards 2024.
Entry
Tickets: care of HOME, book online or call 0161 200 1500
Times:
Thursday 20 November 2025, 7.45pm
Friday 21 November 2025, 7.45pm
Saturday 22 November 2025, 2.15pm
Saturday 22 November 2025, 7.45pm
Duration: 1 hour (no interval).
Location: HOME (Theatre 2), 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester M15 4FN.
Access
Age Advisory: 12+ (parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: please click here.
Features: a contemporary performance work with varied content including spoken English and projected video; occurs in Theatre 2 on the first floor, a studio space with raked seating.
Queries: please contact HOME on 0161 200 1500 or access@homemcr.org
Artists
Malandra Jacks are two artists making film, theatre, art installations, and sharing authentic stories. Importantly, their work offers a platform for communities whose voices often go unheard and are underrepresented…
Chloe Malandra is a multidisciplinary freelance artist, whose skills range from film production and theatre making to drama and arts facilitation for all ages and abilities. She has a genuine belief that the arts are for everyone and carries this ethos through all of her work.
Joshua Wilkinson is a Manchester-based performer, arts facilitator, and filmmaker. He produces short films with video production company, Modify. Josh regularly facilitates arts workshops across the UK, is a board member of Factory International and former board member of Contact.
Reviews
Ambitious, exciting and gorgeous. — I Love MCR
★★★★ Real delight in the inventiveness with which they upset the apple cart. — Northern Soul
Warm-hearted and thought-provoking, it was the sort of socially engaged theatre-making that we need more of and felt like a true labour of love. — Circles & Stalls
The core of this production is about what strong community values mean and how they enhance and are the very backbone of what makes an area viable. — Live Art Alive
Credits
Performers & Writers: Chloe Malandra & Joshua Wilkinson
Dramaturge: Kate Bradnam
Technical Consultant: Andrew Crofts
Composer: Greg Harper
Projection Visual Designer: David Hall
Set Designer: Faz Barber
Set Maker: Tom Mills
R&D Creative Practitioners: Julia Samuels & Matt Fenton
With special thanks to Roxy Daykin-Moores.
Originally commissioned by Contact and hÅb; supported by hÅb, Manchester City Council, and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Websites
malandrajacks.com · Facebook /MalandraJacks · Insta @malandra_jacks