A new programme of theatre shows has been announced in Nottinghamshire, with all productions having either a low ticket price or audiences can pay what they can.
The Old Library Theatre in Mansfield will play host to professional productions over the autumn and winter. The Affordable Theatre programme has been developed by the team at Inspire Youth Arts, a community benefit scheme.
Sam Holgate-Davey, development co-ordinator working on the programme, said, “we already use our theatre space for the youth programmes we run, and to be able to invite professional touring companies to perform here and get more people to see the great facilities we have at the venue is so exciting.”
The season starts on Thursday 11 October with The Flop, a Hijinx production in association with Spymonkey. It promises “an anarchic, slightly rude, hilarious slice of stupidity with live music and unfeasibly large wigs”.
Created by Dante Or Die and written by Chris Goode, User Not Found on Friday 19 October is a “pioneering and intimate new play performed through smart phones and headphones as you become a fly on the wall of one man faced with keeping or deleting”.
Touring companies New Perspectives and Pentabus are collaborating for the first time to present a new play by Deidre Kinahan, Crossings, which explores unexpected stories that emerge from war. It can be seen at the Old Library Theatre on Thursday 25 October.
Fly Half, which follows the trials and tribulations of a rugby player from an industrial town in South Wales, visits on Thursday 15 November and the Pantaloons present their “hilarious” new verse adaption of the most epic journey of all time, The Odyssey, on Thursday 14 March 2019.
Further information is available at the Inspire web site.