Bristol's Tobacco Factory has announced its programme from May to July,
2006:
Instant Wit
The Quick-Fire Comedy Improvisation Show
Mon 1 – Sat 6 May, 7.30pm and Sat Matinee 2.30pm
£10 full / £7 concession
Five Sides of a Circle
By Neville Boundy
Sinai Productions
Tue 9 – Sat 13 May, 7.30pm (8pm Thu 11 and Sat matinee at 2.30pm)
£7 - £12
The play which found a new way of approaching the story of Jesus played
last year to packed houses, and a wide variety of appreciative responses
– both from those who think they know their Gospels and those
who do not.
Heelz on Wheels
Fittings Multimedia Arts
A Fittings Production in Association with the Royal Exchange Theatre,
Manchester
Mon 15 May, 7.30pm
£10 full / £7 concession
Shoes, sex, crips, queers and dressing up…
The Daughter
The Wedding Collective
Tue 16 - Fri 19 May, 8.00pm
£10 full / £8 concession
The Daughter is an intense piece of new writing - political,
powerful and savage - which explores burning questions around resistance
to occupation and the morality of the suicide bomber. In the struggle
for self-determination, is a bullet the best way to get a ballot?
With elections in Palestine and Iraq, this play about self-sacrifice,
blindness, guns, alcohol and God could not be more timely.
The Bed
Sat 20 May, 9.30pm (all night performance)
£10 full / £7 concession
Presented in partnership with Dance Bristol.
The Bed is a chance to participate in Angela Praed’s tender,
intelligent and thought provoking work. Be part of an all night dance
performance, sleep with a dance work and breakfast with the artists.
This is not your normal night out…The event will begin about
9.30 pm and breakfast will be served at approximately 8am. Audience
members need to bring a pillow and sleeping bag, and advance booking
is essential as places are limited.
Feeling Good
Sue Lee & Kosta Andrea Theatre Company
Thu 8 – Sat 10 June, 8.00pm
£10 full / £7 concession
A sequence of ever shifting moods exploring how we become inextricably
caught up in the interfering forces of life. Subtle, quirky and atmospheric
in style, it touches on the depth of the human experience to explore
what it is that makes us happy. Sue Lee (British) and Kosta Andrea
(Swiss) have over the past decade created their own distinctive performance
style - rooted in the everyday, it is at once poetic, surreal and
funny. Based in Wiltshire, the company has performed across Europe
and North America.
Sinner
Stan Won’t Dance
A self-destructive solo for two men
Idea and text by Ben Payne; devised by Ellie Beedham, Ben Payne, Liam
Steel and Rob Tannion; directed by Liam Steel & Rob Tannion
Tue 13 June, 7.30pm
£10 full / £7 concession
Presented in partnership with Dance Bristol.
Taking as its starting point events surrounding David Copeland (The
Soho Bomber), Sinner is a moving and darkly humorous journey
from a nervous pub flirtation to a suffocating psychological thriller.
Mrs Gerrish’s Guesthouse
Ministry of Entertainment
Tue 27 June – Sat 1 July, 7.30pm (Thu and Sat matinee 1.30pm)
£10 full / £7 concession
It’s 1958 and although the summer season at Weston-Super-Mare
is drawing to a close, Mrs. Gerrish finds herself able to display
the ‘No Vacancies’ sign. Visitors to her guest house include
the suave and debonair Mr. Thomas Terry, the intrepid Hurley family
from West Bromwich (who arrive shoe-horned into their motorcycle combination)
and the Great Mephysto, star of the Winter Gardens ‘Summertime
Jamboree’. With Mrs Gerrish’s Guesthouse, the Ministry of
Entertainment’s 4th show, they leave the ration-ridden 1940s
behind and streak into the stratosphere of 1950s sophistication. Featuring
the upbeat, optimistic songs of the period and based on true stories,
this is a chance to come and relive that age of innocence when we
‘never had it so good’.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the East
Yohangza Theatre Company
Wed 5 – Sat 22 July: 7.30pm Tue – Wed / 8.00pm Thu –
Sat / 2.30pm Sat matinees
£12 - £18 full / £8 - £14 concession
Performed in Korean
Performing at London’s Barbican and the Tobacco Factory only,
the Yohangza Theatre Company present their energetic and colourful
version of Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
All of Shakespeare’s main characters are represented but there
are subtle changes as Korean folklore breathes new magic into this
much loved tale. The fairies become the mischievously humorous Dokkebi
goblins with their queen having her husband fall for Bottom (an elderly
woman transformed into a pig). Puck is played by two actors, at times
manoeuvring as a single body and at others dividing into a double
act.
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