Grow 2019 Leaflet

MAY - JULY 2019 INCLUDING

GROW IS HULL TRUCK THEATRE’S SEASON OF NEW & CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE FOR ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES WWW.HULLTRUCK.CO.UK/GROW BOX OFFICE 01482 323638 #GROWHTT19

Wednesday 8 MAY MARK MAKIN TOUR BOOKING WORKSHOP

7 - 11 MAY 2019 Grow is Hull Truck Theatre’s artist development programme for artists at any age or stage in their career. It exists to provide branches of opportunities and strong roots to support exciting new performances.

Our new Grow Season, for artists and audiences, presents new work from local, regional and national artists. Audiences are invited to see new work either in development, tour-ready or just a sapling of an idea.

We launch with our annual Grow Festival, featuring cutting edge performances, masterclasses, talks, workshops and a chance to network.

The season comes to an exciting close with a chance to enjoy Edinburgh Festival Fringe previews here in Hull.

11am - 4.30pm, Inter@ct Covering identifying and contacting programmers, touring logistics, budgets, marketing, venue expectations and much more, giving you a confident start to getting your show on the road. £10

MIDDLE CHILD ACTING GYM

2pm – 5pm, Off-site at Darley’s Join Middle Child for their latest Acting Gym, a playground for Hull actors, in which the process of auditions will be demystified.

FREE

BLOKES, FELLAS, GEEZERS 7pm, Upper Foyer

Jake Jarratt’s Fatha always told him that as a bloke “If someone punches you, you punch them back twice as hard…then have a pint.”

Jake is starting to realize he isn’t his Fatha, and Jake’s Fatha is starting to realize

JOIN US FOR THE LAUNCH WED 8 MAY, 5.30pm

TUESDAY 7MAY

he isn’t Jake. £10

ROUNDHOUSE POETRY SLAM

BURN THE WITCH

8pm, Studio

The Roundhouse Poetry Slam is coming to Hull! On the 7th May listen to Hull’s finest poets compete to be in with a chance of performing in the coveted Roundhouse Poetry Slam final.

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

8pm, Studio

Join Norris & Parker for their hotly anticipated brand-new sketch comedy for lovers of the strange, the sordid, the musical and the dark! £10

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Thursday 9 MAY DIRECTING MASTERCLASS WITH BARRIE RUTTER OBE

10am - 1pm, The Heron Join Hull’s own experienced Actor & Director Barrie Rutter OBE in a masterclass in directing. Explore his unique style and approach to staging classical text. £10

HULL TRUCK THEATRE SURGERIES 10am – 2pm, Upper Foyer Finding funding bids frustrating? Grappling with Grantium? Getting tech specs in a twist?

Finding marketing a mission? Hull Truck have opened a surgery with appointments available. For support and advice on producing, fundraising, engagement, development, leadership, production and marketing.

FREE

HULL INDEPENDENT PRODUCER DROP-IN SESSION

3 – 4pm, Lower Foyer Drop-in to meet Absolutely Cultured’s Hull Independent Producers for free and informal producing advice, funding support, creative dramaturgy, project design, management, budgets, and marketing campaigns.

FREE

INTRODUCTION TO PLAYWRITING WORKSHOP

5.30pm - 7.30pm, Upper Foyer Join our Associate Director (Creative Learning) Tom Saunders for a practical writing session about the fundamental principles of playwriting.

FREE

THE WELCOME REVOLUTION

4pm & 6.30pm, Green Room One woman goes on a mission to make a change. She hosts tea parties around the country, spreading positivity and bringing people together.

This time she’s in Hull. Join us for a cuppa and be part of her story, inspired by the people of this city.

This is Feat.Theatre’s The Welcome Revolution. £10

LINE OF CHANGE: DISCUSSION

5pm – 6pm, Inter@ct Amanda Huxtable, Theatre Director and recently Artistic Associate/ Changemaker at Hull Truck Theatre, returns to share what she has learnt from her journey of leadership and collective responsibility. She will discuss her continued contribution to the movement of radical change necessary within the theatre industry of today.

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FIRST TIME OUT: MUMSY 8pm, Studio

The women in Sophie’s family have always had babies young - so why can’t she? Motherhood on a 0 hour contract. Written

by Hull Truck Theatre Supported Artist Lydia Marchant. £6

USER NOT FOUND

Friday 10 MAY USER NOT FOUND WORKSHOP

3.30pm - 5.30pm, Rehearsal Room User Not Found Performer Andy McLeod, from Dante or Die, will be facilitating a practical session on the company’s approach to site-specific theatre-making to complement the performance.

Fri 10, 9pm, Sat 11, 1pm & 4pm, Upper Foyer Would you delete your online legacy at the moment of your death? In this pioneering and intimate new play by Dante or Die, you’re given a smartphone and headphones to be immersed in one man’s story as he’s faced with keeping or deleting his partner’s online existence. £10

£10

AUNTING

6pm, Inter@ct In 2017 Tilly Branson became an aunt the same week she inherited the belongings of a fascinating and eccentric late great aunt. Now she’s looking through those dusty boxes and re-evaluating the aunts in her favourite books and films, all to try and work out how to be the best possible auntie to her niece Juno.

Saturday 11 MAY THE INCARCERATION OF NELLIE BLY 7pm, The Heron

Join the multi artform 154 Collective at a sharing of early R & D as they seek to make their first midscale theatre production about the life of Nellie Bly. FREE

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SLATE SOCIAL - NETWORKING

I AM A TREE 8pm, Studio

7pm, Lower Foyer Slate is an international movement, in the North of England, that is supporting thousands of *Black Independent Artists. *Black includes anyone who is marginalised for their race or ethnicity.

FREE

CAN I TOUCH YOUR HAIR? 8pm, Studio

It’s 1998. Lekhani feels like she’s the only mixed race girl in Cumbria. And she’s just realised she doesn’t know what to do about her hair. £10

A dance party with ghosts, in a forest, in a theatre. A hopping ritual. An invitation to drink deep: to face the shadows that growl on your insides and laugh big. £12.50

AFTER PARTY

9.30pm, Shoot The Bull, Café Bar Whether you’ve been a hardcore festival fan or just popped in we’ll be winding down the week with some smooth grooves and awkward moves. An excuse to meet in the bar, share our experiences, discuss what we’ve learned and critique what we have seen.

FREE

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BEACH BODY READY

Fri 31 May - Sat 1 June, 8pm Matinee: Sat 1, 2.30pm Shaving? Tanning? Over-exercising? CabbageSouping? Starving? Don’t bother. We’re not!

Grab your pals and your biscuits and watch Beach Body Ready, by The Roaring Girls. £12.50 CONC. £2 OFF

VELVET

MAY - JULY WALKING TOWARDS ITHACA Fri 24 May, 8pm

Walking Towards Ithaca

by Campbell Edinborough reflects on the complexities of human connection and belonging in a world of anger and alienation. £12.50 CONC. £2 OFF

1975

Sat 25 May, 3pm Set in 1975 around a community as they head towards the referendum.

This sharing of the project by Madeleine O’Reilly asks how do we vote and what can we learn from the past?

FREE

STATUS

Wed 29 May, 8pm We all have a nationality. Or almost all of us.

Chris Thorpe’s Status is a show about someone who doesn’t want his anymore. About running away from the national story you’re given. About who is responsible for that story and what might happen to it if you give it up. £12.50, CONC. £2 OFF

Wed 5 June, 8pm Set amongst the 2017 #MeToo movement, Velvet explores what a person will do in order to achieve their dreams. Written and performed by Tom Ratcliffe £12.50 CONC. £2 OFF

OUR NEON CHILDREN

Thur 6 June, 8pm Come and join award winning local company Silent Uproar as they share an early draft of their next project by local playwright Josh Overton.

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ANOTHER ENGLAND Thur 27 June, 8pm

Rat and Murphy are from opposite sides of the political coin, but both find themselves erased and scratched out by a state that has lost its humanity.

Written and directed by Vici Wreford-Sinnott. £12.50 CONC. £2 OFF

BEATING McENROE

Fri 28 June, 8pm Jamie Wood’s Beating McEnroe is about being a younger brother and a bad loser. It is about rivalry and love and how they can both better us and destroy us. £12.50 CONC. £2 OFF

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THE CANARY AND THE CROW

JACK GLEADOW AND LUCY BEAUMONT A DOUBLE BILL PREVIEW Thur 11 July, 8pm Two award winning Hull native comedians Jack Gleadow & Lucy Beaumont join for a double bill of back-to-back laugh out loud comedy previewing material ahead of the Fringe. £10

Tue 16 - Wed 17 July, 8pm The award-winning Middle Child return with new, grime-inspired gig theatre about a working class black kid accepted to a grammar school. £9

FIRST TIME

Wed 24 July, 8pm Queer artist Nathaniel Hall presents a funny and frank one-man show about attempting to staying positive in a negative world. £8

THE KAGOOLS: CIRQUE DU KAGOOL Fri 12 July, 8pm

Join the multi-award winning physical comedy duo for (probably) The Greatest Show on Earth.

An hour of pure joy and anarchic buffoonery ‘brimming with wit and imagination’ ***** (TVBomb). £10

RICHARD STOTT – RIGHT HAND MAN Fri 26 July, 8pm An hour of anarchic storytelling and acidic punchlines exploring how he has learnt to roll with the hand life dealt him and draw humour from what we are told is humourless. £10

BEACH BODY READY 7pm

Sat 13 July Three exceptional shows, three Hull companies, one day. The best of Hull’s homegrown theatre.

A day-in-the-life of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival…in Hull!

SLIME

12.30pm

Being a slug is hard.

Everyone thinks you’re disgusting. SQUISH and SQUELCH your way through this hilarious show for 0+ years brought to you

by The Herd. £5

Shaving? Tanning? Overexercising? CabbageSouping? Starving?

Don’t bother. We’re not!

Grab your pals and your biscuits and watch Beach Body Ready! £5

STANDING TOO CLOSE ON OUR OWN IN THE DARK 8.30pm

HULL TRUCK THEATRE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES SUPPORT FROM

A happy-sad, gig-theatre event featuring a standup poet and live band exploring heartbreak, the cosmos and awkward social encounters by Just Club Theatre. £5