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  • Handbag
    8:00 pm-10:30 pm
    04/04/2023-08/04/2023

    Handbag

    by Mark Ravenhill

    Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more than usual revolting sentimentality. From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill’s play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinky Winky’s handbag.

    Trigger Warning – contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

    “In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he’s put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it’s no less stunning” (Guardian)

    “There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is – it is now yet more evident – a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism” (Financial Times)

    Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.

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  • Handbag
    8:00 pm-10:30 pm
    05/04/2023-08/04/2023

    Handbag

    by Mark Ravenhill

    Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more than usual revolting sentimentality. From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill’s play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinky Winky’s handbag.

    Trigger Warning – contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

    “In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he’s put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it’s no less stunning” (Guardian)

    “There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is – it is now yet more evident – a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism” (Financial Times)

    Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.

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  • Handbag
    8:00 pm-10:30 pm
    06/04/2023-08/04/2023

    Handbag

    by Mark Ravenhill

    Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more than usual revolting sentimentality. From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill’s play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinky Winky’s handbag.

    Trigger Warning – contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

    “In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he’s put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it’s no less stunning” (Guardian)

    “There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is – it is now yet more evident – a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism” (Financial Times)

    Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.

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  • Handbag
    8:00 pm-10:30 pm
    07/04/2023-08/04/2023

    Handbag

    by Mark Ravenhill

    Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more than usual revolting sentimentality. From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill’s play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinky Winky’s handbag.

    Trigger Warning – contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

    “In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he’s put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it’s no less stunning” (Guardian)

    “There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is – it is now yet more evident – a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism” (Financial Times)

    Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.

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  • Handbag
    8:00 pm-10:30 pm
    08/04/2023-08/04/2023

    Handbag

    by Mark Ravenhill

    Twenty-eight years before The Importance of Being Earnest, a young woman gives birth to a baby boy. Is it an accident when Nanny places him in a handbag and her unpublished novel into the pram? In 1998 a new baby is stolen and an academic discovers an unpublished novel of more than usual revolting sentimentality. From Victorian wet nurses to 90s sperm banks, Mark Ravenhill’s play examines the role of parenting in an age of diverse sexualities, biological engineering and Tinky Winky’s handbag.

    Trigger Warning – contains explicit sexual references and scenes of a distressing nature. Suitable for 16+

    “In Shopping and Fucking, Mark Ravenhill made theatre relevant to the Thatcher generation. Now he’s put videos and Net-surfing in Faust. And it’s no less stunning” (Guardian)

    “There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill. He is – it is now yet more evident – a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism” (Financial Times)

    Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap’s Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, Ten Plagues (A Song Cycle), The Cane and The Boy in the Dress.

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  • Art Pop Up Shop at the Lantern
    3:00 pm-11:00 pm
    16/04/2023

    Art Pop Up Shop at the Lantern

    A one day, two floor, multi artist pop up shop.

    Come and peruse the wares, have a drink, hang out and help us create a hub for creatives!

    Coffee shop / bar open throughout.

    Free entry.

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  • The Burning Gadulka
    6:30 pm-8:00 pm
    23/04/2023

    The Burning Gadulka

    The Burning Gadulka is a contemporary Bulgarian monodrama.  Bulgarian actor Miro Kokenov he takes audiences on a tragicomedy journey of doubt, sarcasm and the wonders of nature in his solo performance steeped in Bulgarian folklore. Written by award-winning Bulgarian writer Rayko Baychev, the play which has been translated into English for the first time, delves into love, loss, conflict and self-belief will resonate with anyone searching for answers. Following a series of performance failures at music festivals, a Bulgarian musician faces a midlife crisis as his lifelong love affair with his instrument – the Gadulka, comes to a crashing end more or less at the same time as the sudden arrival of a mysterious girl?

    Will his crippling shyness and his crisis of confidence destroy any relationship before it can begin? Has he lost his power over the musical instrument, or has the instrument lost its power over him? Where do the pandas come into the dilemma?

    The performance is inspired by Bulgarian culture and reveals to the audience the characteristics of Bulgarian folklore, traditional dances, and costumes.

    It will be performed in Bulgarian only.

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  • The Ruffian on the Stair
    7:00 pm-8:00 pm
    28/04/2023

    The Ruffian on the Stair

    The Ruffian on the Stair is the first play Joe Orton ever wrote. Rarely performed, this production set in a sordid bedsit has been described as ‘dripping with menace’ and ‘compelling’.

    Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. Mike is an ex-boxer living on the dole who makes extra cash by running people down for money, and Joyce is an ex-prostitute.

    It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

  • The Ruffian on the Stair
    9:00 pm-10:00 pm
    28/04/2023

    The Ruffian on the Stair

    The Ruffian on the Stair is the first play Joe Orton ever wrote. Rarely performed, this production set in a sordid bedsit has been described as ‘dripping with menace’ and ‘compelling’.

    Mike and Joyce are a poor London couple living in a bedsit. Mike is an ex-boxer living on the dole who makes extra cash by running people down for money, and Joyce is an ex-prostitute.

    It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives. It was based on The Boy Hairdresser, a novel by Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

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  • The Laramie Project
    7:30 pm-10:00 pm
    29/04/2023-30/04/2023

    The Laramie Project

    ACT Youth Theatre proudly present The Laramie Project directed by Hasan Dixon.

    The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project,  about the reaction to the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.  The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various US states, including Wyoming.

    After Matthew’s murder in 1998, members of the Tectonic Theatre Project in New York City travelled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents about how the attack on Matt had affected the town. These transcripts were transformed into the play The Laramie Project, which tells the stories of real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation’s most heinous anti-gay hate crimes.

    An example of verbatim theatre, the play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members’ own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.

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  • The Laramie Project
    7:30 pm-10:00 pm
    30/04/2023-30/04/2023

    The Laramie Project

    ACT Youth Theatre proudly present The Laramie Project directed by Hasan Dixon.

    The Laramie Project is a 2000 play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project,  about the reaction to the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.  The murder was denounced as a hate crime and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various US states, including Wyoming.

    After Matthew’s murder in 1998, members of the Tectonic Theatre Project in New York City travelled to Laramie, Wyoming, to interview residents about how the attack on Matt had affected the town. These transcripts were transformed into the play The Laramie Project, which tells the stories of real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation’s most heinous anti-gay hate crimes.

    An example of verbatim theatre, the play draws on hundreds of interviews conducted by the theatre company with inhabitants of the town, company members’ own journal entries, and published news reports. It is divided into three acts, and eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes.

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