Registered Charity
No 1136513
Show Times:
Tues to Sat at 7.30pm,
Sundays at 4pm
Running Time: approx 90 minutes
(plus interval)
Tickets £12, £10 (concessions)
*(Concessions: Students, Seniors 60+, Equity,
Unemployed, Disabled)
Saturday 11th Feb:
Pay What You Can* Night
February 7 - 26
Is Marriage all it’s cracked up to be?
The Tell Theatre Company present
A Respectable Wedding
by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Jean Benedetti)
&
Bud
by Nick Darke
Directed by Penny Cliff
With divorce rates on the up, it seems that the fairy tale version of marriage couldn’t be further from reality. “A Respectable Wedding” and “Bud” subject marriage to a wicked examination, dripping with humour, of the power, cruelty and rage that reside in its darker corners.
A sharp look at one couple’s efforts to create their special day, Brecht’s “A Respectable Wedding” crashes into excruciatingly delicious calamity. With a cast of nine, the play was last produced at the Young Vic in April 2007.
“Bud” by the late Cornish playwright (and filmmaker, lobsterman and wrecker) Nick Darke, is a ferociously atmospheric one-man play in which Bud, a fifty-year-old farmer, maps how "the acid drops scorchin holes in the starched napkin of our marriage" leads to a shocking disaster. Originally commissioned by the RSC it was last performed in London at the Almeida in November 1985.
THE TELL relocates the plays to Thatcher’s 1980s, a period of change and reaction, class-division and aspiration. With a big cast and live music, this production lets these provocative comedies burn as bright as ever.
Come and be entertained this February with 2 classic plays for the price of 1!
Produced by The Tell Theatre Company
