| site map 3
Leading theatre companies Paines Plough and Òran Mór bring their Play, Pie and a Pint shows to the Belgrade’s B2 for the first time this autumn.
These hugely successful events will take place at 1pm and 6pm on Thursdays and Fridays, offering you the chance to spend your lunchtime or early evening watching a brilliant new 45 minute play – with a pie and pint thrown in! Saturday performances will be at 10.45am, with cake and coffee, and then at 12.30pm and 6pm with a pie and a pint.
Running for five consecutive weeks, we’ll be offering five brand new plays by five of the UK’s leading writers, including Marie Jones, Gary Owen, Linda McLean, April De Angelis and David Harrower.
Play one: 30 Sept - 2 Oct
Fly Me To The Moon by Marie Jones
Direction by James Grieve
He never won any more than a couple a quid, but that was his life… all he had… his paper, the horses, memories of singing along with Frank Sinatra and a life of misery... he was better off dead in my opinion.
Francis and Loretta are broke community care workers. Davy, one of their charges, has had a posthumous win on the horses and the women grapple with their conscience. Marie Jones’ new black comedy investigates whether we are valued more in life or in death.
Play two: 7 - 9 Oct
In The Pipeline by Gary Owen
Direction by David Horan
Let’s barricade some bridges, let’s show them they can’t push us around. Which is fine, except they can push us around. And they will, if they want to.
A massive liquid gas line tears through the countryside of west Wales. Gary Owen opens the doors to three of the residence in the port of Milford Haven, Andrew, Dai and Joan, who are caught in its path.
Play three: 14 - 16 Oct
The Uncertainty Files by Linda McLean
Direction by Charlotte Gwinner
When I get really overwhelmed I go to a drugstore and look at the little sample sizes in the travel section and it calms me because I can try anything and not commit to it.
In this new play by Linda McLean, only one thing is for sure; nothing.
Play four: 21 - 23 Oct
Calais by April De Angelis
Direction by Tamara Harvey
In years to come we’ll look back and it’ll be like it happened to someone else... someone we didn’t even know and it’ll be hard to feel sorry for…
Horatio Nelson is dead but the women in his life live on. April De Angelis’ play explores the way in which Britain constructs an idea of itself through a war hero but questions how society really treats those involved in war?
Play five: 28 - 30 Oct
Good With People by David Harrower
Direction by George Perrin
Blustery day after day, racing cloud but still sun, still enough sparkling light to find us out here on the coast, you great unwashed. You don’t need a torch and a map till September.
Evan has come home after a long absence. For a day and a night. It's more than enough.
To accompany your pint, a glass of wine or soft drink, there will be one meat and one vegetarian pie option from the following range of home-made, Petit Gourmand Pies* at each event:
• Beef Bourguignon
• Chicken, ham & leek
• Lamb tagine
• Roast mushroom & caramelised onion (v)
• Red Thai sweet potato curry (v)
Coffee & cake will be available at 10.45am shows.
*menu subject to change.
B2
Thursdays: 1pm & 6pm
Fridays: 1pm & 6pm
Saturdays: 10.45am, 12.30pm & 6pm
Tickets, including a pie and a pint (or coffee and cake on 10.45am shows): £10
A limited number of free tickets are available for those under 26
From the New Art Club, Britain’s funniest dancers deconstruct music from 1983 and shed their own twisted light on then, the future and now
Following last year’s Bollywood musical Wuthering Heights, Tamasha returns to the Belgrade with a new interpretation of Lorca’s masterpiece.
Join Emma Powell and Bev Killick for an evening on 4 Sept and you’ll be “busting” to tell your friends about the feel-good show of the year!
All content © 2010 The Belgrade Theatre / Email: / Terms and Disclaimer 8
made with valid XHTML / CSS and powered by Jadu® Content Management