Whitley Bay’s Cloud Nine Theatre announces its next production, Peter Mortimer’s The Stolen Rubber Band.
In Mortimer’s latest piece of theatrical absurdity, Terse is driven to desperation by economic austerity. The solution is to embark on an unpredictable odyssey in an attempt to steal a rubber band—the answer to every problem.
En route, Terse must face and overcome such problems as the Wobbly Man With Dog, the Bald Balladeer and the awesome Gate of Gump, through which no-one has ever passed. Terse must also learn to converse in the language of Gargle.
Meanwhile back home, Terse’s faithful companion Foam confronts another formidable challenge—to count aloud from 1 to 10,000.
Cloud Nine’s latest "indefinable" piece is, we are told, “full of trickery, practical jokes, sleights of hand, physical theatre, dazzling language and a watering can. There is also an obsession with eating.”
The play is directed by Neil Armstrong and the cast is Dylan Mortimer, Robbie Lee Hurst and Pip Chamberlin.
The Stolen Rubber Band is at the Low Lights Tavern in North Shields from 19 to 21 October, the Surf Café in Tynemouth on 22, the Yoga Station at Whitley Bay Metro Station on 23, Whitley Bay FC’s concert room on 24 and Whitley Bay Comrades Club on 25.
The first half of each evening’s performance is a live set from one of North Tyneside’s singer/songwriters.