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Post by hulmeman on Sept 6, 2017 22:15:38 GMT
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Post by n1david on Sept 6, 2017 22:19:27 GMT
I’m going next week after seeing good reviews for this in Edinburgh.
If you need an extra push, half price for tix until this Saturday with discount code GYPSY.
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 6, 2017 22:31:40 GMT
I'll see it in Manchester, but thanks for the tip n1!
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Post by boybooshka on Sept 9, 2017 0:50:18 GMT
I saw it a couple of months ago at the Colliseum in Oldham, would highly recommend.
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Post by n1david on Sept 13, 2017 22:11:11 GMT
Another vote in favour of this great little show - two actors playing many parts, minimal but effective set. Funny, moving and sexy. Packs a punch (to use a cliché that I'm sure no-one has ever used before)...
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 25, 2017 21:43:43 GMT
It's final tour stop is Hope Mill and it's a real tour de force for the actors and a brilliant piece of theatre. Rob Ward and Ryan Clayton play at least seven different characters, sometimes funny, sometimes sad. Go if you can.
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 26, 2018 21:26:10 GMT
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Post by n1david on Jan 27, 2018 11:28:08 GMT
Ryan Clayton joined Coronation Street last night according to his Twitter, so there must be a cast change...
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Post by hulmeman on Jan 27, 2018 13:46:13 GMT
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Post by NorthernAlien on Sept 21, 2019 17:00:50 GMT
Just seen this in today's matinee at The Hope Mill in Manchester - in the last day of it's current outing.
This is the sort of representation that just doesn't make it to the theatre very often - boxers, gay sportsmen, the traveller community - and if this hasn't had money from the Arts Council at some point then I consider that to be a travesty.
I enjoyed this. It's very much a fringe show, with the two actors playing many, many roles between them. There's one scene that seemed to come from nowhere, and was something of a 'tonal whiplash', but it was plainly the scene that was the catalyst for the action of the denouement of the narrative - but I did feel this could have been foreshadowed, even slightly.
Seat wise, the 'three coloured blocks' approach that Hope Mill adopts was abandoned as this performance was only about 40-50% sold, and they let us sit anywhere. I was on the third row, and the sight-lines and audio quality were fine. Leg room fine, seat a little on the small side, I felt. In this configuration though the Hope is a long old space, and I wonder if you'd have to strain to hear if you were on the back row, especially in the quieter scenes? This afternoon City were at home, and so with a 3pm start we were smack in the middle of a huge group of football fans as we walked to the theatre - but there still were some spaces in the Mill's car park.
Overall, a good show, that deserves to tour and tour until the entire country has seen it...
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