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Lizzie Nunnery | Swallowing Dark, The |
: | Canaan thought hed left a violent and dangerous past behind when he and his son arrived from Zimbabwe, until new case worker Martha decides to re-examine his refugee status and hes forced to fight for their lives for a second time. But when lives depend on it, is the truth always the best story to tell? As he opens up his past, Martha moves from trusting his word to suspecting him of lying and as this psychological thriller progresses she begins to confront terrible events happening in her own life but are either of them who they seem and is the truth ever a simple story? |
Edgar, Kate & Wakefield, Colin | Pinocchio |
: | Adapted from Carlo Collodis timeless adventure of the puppet who yearns to be a real boy, Colin Wakefield and Kate Edgar magically bring Old Italy to life with an evocative score, colourful costumes and exotic locales including the sinister Land Of The Toys and the interior of a gigantic whale. This beloved childrens classic, devised for a company of actor/musicians but easily played by off-stage musicians instead, amazes and delights as Pinocchio gradually discovers the dangers of selfishness and the importance of honesty, told with all the hallmarks of traditional pantomimes in this fantastic adventure to delight all ages! |
Ron Aldridge | My Dogs Got No Nose |
: | My Dog's Got No Nose takes us on a journey through the events surrounding a stand-up comedian's first ever performance. Before picking up his microphone and venturing into the limelight, he regales stories and tales about his life and experiences. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes poignant and often laugh-out-loud hilarious, he shares his soul reminiscing about his early career as a furniture-salesman-turned-photographer, love, marriage, and ambitions. His debut is the fulfilment of a lifelong dream where stand-up comedy, unrequited love, animal lovers, facts of life, sibling rivalries and mercy killing are just some of the elements covered in this very funny and bittersweet story, as we discover that both the man and the performance are not quite what they seem. |
David Lewis | How To Be Happy |
: | We all want to be happy. But what if it keeps slipping through our fingers? Paul is a former happiness guru and as a young man wrote self-help books and appeared on TV as 'Mr Happy'. But now his marriage has failed, his career as a serious novelist is faltering and his ex-wife has remarried a wealthy advertising executive. All he can think about is the state of his health, the size of his mortgage and the expensive monthly payments on his iPhone. Mr Happy is not happy. But if anyone can claw happiness back, surely he must be the man? |
Vanessa Brooks | Hypothermia |
: | Oskar lives in the state hospital in Andernach, Germany. He keeps the other patients in order, jokes with the staff, sings opera and tends to a fine collection of plants in the conservatory. And then, in the bleak winter of 1940, a dark visitor arrives. Two holes are dug into the ice of a frozen lake and Oskar has a decision to make. . .To live. . .Or to die. |
Arthur Miller | View From The Bridge, A |
: | A View from the Bridge ". . . is a tragedy in the classic form and I think it is a modern classic. . . the central character is a long-shoreman who, though his mind is limited and he cannot find words for his thoughts, is an admirable man. . ..When two of his wife's Italian cousins - submarines they are, in the waterfront argot - are smuggled into this country, he makes room for them in his home. Gratefully they move in among his wife, his children and the teen-age niece whom he has brought up and whom he has come to love, he thinks, as a daughter. And now the stage is set for tragedy. One of the illegal immigrants has a family in Italy for whom he is working; the other young, extraordinarily handsome, and exceedingly blonde, is single. He wants to become an American, and he falls in love with his benefactor's niece. If he marries the girl he will no longer have to hide from immigration officials. A monstrous change creeps up on the kind and loving uncle. He is violently opposed to this romance and is not intelligent enough to realize that this opposition is not motivated, as he thinks, by a dislike of the boy and a suspicion that he is too pretty to be a man, but by his own too intense love for his niece. Not even the wise and kindly neighborhood lawyer can persuade him to let the girl go. This is an intensely absorbing drama, sure of itself every step of the way. It makes no false moves, wastes no time and has the beauty that comes from directness and simplicity" New York News |