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FRI 28 APRIL
Bang Average Theatre presents DIRTY CORSET
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
WED 10 MAY
Lawrence Batley Theatre, KETCHUP & Richard Jordan present JESUS, JANE, MOTHER & ME
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Yorkshire in 1687: a company of flea-bitten actors try and fail to live up to their on-stage personas. A bawd, a hopeless romantic and a pus-filled buffoon fight impressively for your attention. A raucous, surreal comedy about desire, the struggle for freedom and queer love.
FRI 5 MAY
Chronic Insanity presents
24, 23, 22
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Meet Daniel Valentine. He’s a strange boy. It’s Mother’s Day and he has returned to his family home to celebrate. He’s here to tell you his story. Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me is a twisted coming-of-age story blending pitch black humour and heartache by award winning playwright Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
THUR 11 MAY
SHEWOLVES Productions present SHEWOLVES
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off Armed with a backpack full of Pop-tarts and a hunger to tackle climate change, Priya and Lou embark on a covert expedition into the wild. But when the wilderness closes in around them, can they overcome their differences to make their voices heard?
SHEWOLVES is an uplifting coming-of-age comedy for teenagers and anyone who has ever been a teen.
24, 23, 22 is a gig-theatre show about the heat of the moment, and how our impulses create ripples which become waves. Join our cast of two, armed with handheld mics, and an onstage beat-maker, for this little earthquake of a show. Expect scuzzy beats, stolen bags, and the reversal of the flow of time.
FRI 12 MAY
Alice Christina Corrigan presents PAST LIFE
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
From gym to art classes, vibrant clubs to dingy flats. Past Life catapults through a dynamic story of Kiera’s life in a punchy, creatively accessible and energetic one person show.
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WORLD PREMIERE
In between, she must shoulder the hopes and dreams of women across the country, while fighting for her place at a table full of top hats, ties and mutton chop beards.
Twisting theatre, music hall and drag king cabaret, Modest is laced with punk spirit as it brings you a Victorian art scene superstar. Performed by a cast of actor-musicians, this farcical show will break your heart and start a revolution.
Modest is a collaboration between Hullbased Middle Child and artist-led Milk Presents, two award-winning companies, developed with the support of the National Theatre’s Generate programme.
SAT 13 MAY
Bethany Cooper Productions and Theatre503 present
TAPPED
by Katie Redford
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Tapped is a heart-warming comedy that explores the importance of connection, fulfilment and (lack of) hope. In Stapleford aka Stabbo, we meet Gavi, Jen and Dawn at an amateur self-help group who all share one commonality; they’re desperate for escapism. Tapped was Offie nominated for Most Promising New Playwright.
FRI 26 MAY
FANBOY
By Joe Sellman-Leava
Directed by Yaz Al-Shaater
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Joe has always been a nerd. In his teens, he hid it. In his twenties, he owned it. Now in his thirties, Joe is still obsessed with Nintendo, Star Wars , and The Muppet Christmas Carol . But he’s started to sense something: a great disturbance in the fandom… Alone, sorting through his old things, Joe finds an old video tape, in an old VCR, long forgotten. He presses play… and something amazing starts to happen!
SAT 3 JUNE
Moon Loaf present
LUCINDA SPRAGG: AN ADDITIONAL
EVENING WITH
Written and performed by Grace Millie
Directed by Kieran Dee
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Welcome to an hour with “the most awful person at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe” - British Comedy Guide.
Leader of the Regain Party and professional feather ruffler, it’s... Lucinda Spragg.
“A fabulous piece of character comedy” Chortle
WED 7 JUNE
Inside Theatre present 5 YEARS
by Hayley Davis
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Would you exchange five years of your life for the perfect body? Yasmin has decided that she would. 5 Years is a new comedy–drama that asks, ‘what do we lose in the pursuit of perfection?’
THUR 15 – FRI 16 JUNE
Terrain & Theatre503 present HELEN
Written by Maureen Lennon
Directed by Tom Bellerby
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off Helen is forty when she loses her husband. Becca is fifteen when her Dad dies. Then it’s just the two of them, what do they do next?
Maureen Lennon’s play, shortlisted for the Theatre503 International Playwriting Prize, unfolds through snapshots of their relationship over the next forty years. A play about love, grief, and two women up a hillside with ashes stuck to their trouser leg.
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THUR 29 JUNE
Pink Milk Theatre presents A SPLASH OF MILK
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
Sunny is queer, brown and back living with their parents after a bad few years in London. Does this make them depressed? Maybe. But they have some hilarious stories to tell! Well… they can laugh at them, you can’t (depending on your milk vs. melanin ratio).
Join Sunny on a journey filled with humour, sass and hard-hitting truths.
FRI 30 JUNE
Le Gasp productions present
JULIE
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
THUR 13 JULY
Kevin Precious in THE RELUCTANT TEACHER
8pm, Tickets £13.50, conc. £2 off
In this Edinburgh preview double bill Kevin Precious provides a funny overview of the pitfalls and pratfalls of his former profession with a bit of pedagogical stuff (ooh-er) thrown in for good measure. Second act pending!
‘Kevin’s stage charisma and poise set him head and shoulders above the previous acts’ The Times
FRI 28 JULY
SAFER
By Sarah Jane Dickenson
Directed by Lucy Fielding
8pm, Tickets £10, conc. £2 off
Inspired by a true story, Safer is a hard hitting, tender and funny exploration of the toxic side of team sports and how one gay and inclusive team decided to tackle it head on.
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JULIE: The Musical is a brand new, original musical telling the life and adventures of historical LGBTQ+ icon Julie D’Aubigny. Featuring Live Music, Comedy, Tap Dancing Sword Fights, Twerking Nuns, Kazoo Choruses...and that’s just the first half.
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