Local Playwrights x3

Buy a ticket to two shows and see the third one for free.   All tickets must be purchased in the same transaction.

No further discount can be applied separately online. 

The discount is applied when you add at least one ticket for each performance from this series into the check out.

Multiple tickets can still be purchased in one transaction.    Tickets can be purchased on the door each night – subject to availability.

Thursday 17th September:

FIRE and RAIN by Martin Hancock

When natural resources are gone, what is the future going to look like?   In a world where most of the water in the world has been drawn into the salty oceans, the great rivers gone, the only available water is what you can salvage and recycle from your own body.   What would nature make us give up to put things right, and at what cost?

Four Wildfire Fighters find themselves in a strange, unfamiliar place.   A message is received by one of their number through their brain-embedded ID Chip.   In their world, certain words remain but their meaning has been lost to an incinerating climate, so how should they interpret this view of a very different world?   Is the vision seen by one of them showing an open door to a better dimension, or are humans becoming sacrificial lambs to the unforgiving laws of nature?

Friday 18th September:

SAFETY in NUMBERS by Adam Francis

Two trainspotters are poised on a platform, eagerly anticipating the arrival of an elusive train.   The Z307 will complete their trainspotting book.   As they reflect on the enormity of their seemingly banal quest, they need and needle each other, exposing Trainspotter 1’s narcissistic trait of being both the torturer and rescuer of his acquaintance, and Trainspotter 2’s allotted role of victim.   As the rumbling of the train tracks grows in frequency, the two men are interrupted by the arrival of a Worker who holds up a figurative mirror to their inadequacies.   Defending their honour and purpose, they retaliate, unpicking the Worker’s own insipidity and trivial life.   When the Worker protests his importance, it seems that only the arrival of the Z307 can calm the waters.   The three of them now wait, too afraid of what lies beyond their platform.

The play scrutinises Man’s desire for independence, power and hierarchy, while exposing our yearning to belong, no matter what the cost.

Saturday 19th September:

GOOD GRIEF by Rob Graham

Inspired by a true story of love, loss and friendship, Good Grief is a brutally honest, powerful and personal account of one man's attempts to deal with the reality of loss and the ensuing void which threatens to consume him.   It is both visceral and funny, often within the same breath.   Drawing from his own personal experiences, Adie has undoubtedly laid himself bare and, as a result, the play packs very real and occasionally uncomfortable punches, all served up in a web of dark humour.

Quote from London Theatre1:  “In this witty, beautifully written piece, Adie manages to deliver laughs aplenty punctuated by moments of deep and authentic emotional pain, all the while swerving deftly past any hint of mawkish sentimentality.”