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. Census is 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, a call to remember who we are and what we carry with us.

Note: This performance of Census is taking place for an invited group only and is closed for bookings from the public, please see other performances of Census in Wythenshawe and Droylsden below to get your tickets.

Praise for Census

‘Ambitious, exciting and gorgeous’ – I Love MCR 

‘Indeed, there’s a real delight in the inventiveness with which they upset the apple cart’ – Northern Soul 

‘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 

‘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