Street Trilogy: Car Raw Kid
Theatre Absolute
Written by Chris O’Connell and directed by Mark Babych
Tue 3 – Sat 7 May
£10 full / £7 concession per performance / Trilogy tickets
from £12*
Trilogy tickets are £15 full / £12 concession, or you
can see three plays on separate days and pay for two.
Contains strong language and scenes of a violent nature. Suitable
for ages 15 +. Each show lasts approx 85 mins with no interval.
Car, Raw and Kid are three award-winning plays
that make up Chris O’Connell’s highly-acclaimed Street
Trilogy. Each play can be viewed separately, but combined they
present an uncompromising portrait of life on the dirty side of the
tracks.
Car
Tue 3 May 7.30pm / Wed 4 May 2.00pm / Sat 7 May 5.00pm
Four lads steal a car. It’s a story played out at breakneck
speed that grinds together the pulsating excitement and the mind-numbing
desperation of the characters, each on their own separate crash
course.
Winner Time Out Award for Best Fringe Play 1999
Edinburgh Fringe First Award 1999
Raw
Wed 4 May 3.45pm / Thu 5 May 7.30pm / Sat 7 May 6.45pm
It’s the addiction to violence that Lex and her crew live for.
But when a boy on a train is attacked and doesn’t get up, their
lives begin to freefall…
Edinburgh Fringe First Award 2001
Kid
Wed 4 May 6.00pm / Fri 6 May 7.30pm / Sat 7 May 9.00pm
Zoe and Lee are on the run, K’s lost in Latino spirit and Bradley
wants to be a boy. It’s the hottest day of the year, the yard’s
scorched, the cat’s eaten the burgers, and there’s a secret
desperate to be told...
Post show discussion Wed 4 May
Five Sides of a Circle
Written by Neville Boundy and directed by Elwyn Johnson
Tue 10 – Sat 14 May 7.30pm
£ 6 – £12
The story of Jesus is told from four viewpoints in the Gospel. Do
the four agree? Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are encouraged to meet,
explore their differences and try to solve the contradictions.
Post show discussions Wed 11 + Fri 13 + Sat 14 May (matinee)
At Home with the Cripps
Theatre Resource
Thu 19 – Fri 20 May 8.00pm
£10 full / £7 concession
A fast-moving, entertaining drama where four disabled adults show
life as it really is - warts and all. They laugh, they cry, they smoke,
they drink, they do good things and bad things…It’s just
an ordinary day with the Cripps. It’s time to put disability
reality on the agenda in this challenging new play from Theatre Resource.
All performances are sign language interpreted and are designed to
be accessible to disabled and non disabled audiences. Contains swearing
and scenes of a sexual nature.
Tales of the West Country at War Trilogy
Written by Joe Hobbs
Ministry of Entertainment
£10 full / £7 concession per performance (matinees £7
/ £5)
Special offer: see three plays and pay for two (cheapest ticket free)
Keep Smiling Through
Fri 10 Jun 7.30pm + Thu 16 Jun 1.30pm / 7.30pm + Fri 17 Jun 7.30pm
Two neighbours help each other out and cheer each other up through
Bristol’s darkest hour.
Yes, We Have No Bananas
Wed 8 Jun 7.30pm + Thu 9 Jun 1.30pm / 7.30pm + Wed 15 Jun 7.30pm
+ Sat 18 Jun 2.00pm / 7.30pm
A light-hearted look at the build up to D-Day on the South coast.
Post show discussion Wed 8 June
Doodlebugs and Bogeymen
Tue 7 Jun 7.30pm + Sat 11 Jun 2.00pm / 7.30pm + Tue 14 Jun 7.30pm
A fond look at the lives of Jean and Brian Milton, two evacuees
sent from the city to stay with Mr and Mrs Brimble on their West
Country farm.
Taylor’s Dummies
Gecko
Tue 5 – Sun 17 Jul (excluding Mon 11 Jul) 8.00pm
£14.50 full / £10.50 concession
Following its huge success at the Tobacco Factory last year and a
world tour, Taylor’s Dummies is back with an extended
run. If you missed it in 2004, now’s your chance to find out
what all the fuss was about…
Imagine Vertigo directed by David Lynch and performed by De
La Guarda to the riffs of 1950s jazz. Inventively multi-dimensional,
the performers walk up walls, fly through the air and bring dolls
and dummies to life.
Post show discussions Thu 7 + Thu 14 July
